Theerarak Suthathiwong
Jomtien Beach police were able to talk down an
unidentified foreign man before he could fall or jump from 10-meters up a
tree.
The man, believed to be homeless and in his 50s, was
sitting and smoking in an Indian almond tree at Seagal Village around
midnight July 19. Police, Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan medics, and Pattaya
Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department rescuers responded.
Authorities went up in a crane to talk to the man, who
seemed less than interested in conversation and refused to get down.
Officials were afraid he might fall, but he man also gave indications he
planned to jump.
Eventually he agreed to come down although police are
still unsure what drove him up a tree.
