City officials get daily complaints from residents around town that vagrants are invading areas in front of their shops and homes and scattering piles of garbage all over the place.
Mr. Nikom Saengkaew deputy head of the Korphai community together with city hall’s task force were called on Aug.11 to inspect an area in front of a beauty shop located at Korphai Soi 7, where vagrants had not only stacked their belongings but also strewn garbage all over the place.
When the officials arrived they saw that the man was drunk and the woman looked like she had been physically assaulted. It’s unknown who beat the woman, but she was taken to a friend’s house on Thepprasit Road.
Residents around town are getting quite exasperated with this problem. One resident said, “These people have no regard for the owner of the property. They just do whatever they like. We are afraid to approach them for fear that they could get violent and we also afraid that the smelly piles of garbage could be contaminated with diseases.”
Mr. Nikom said that city officials try to get the homeless to go stay at the Banglamung Shelter for the Homeless but they refuse. If they are forced to go there, they stay for a couple of days and then escape to come back to their regular haunts in front of people’s homes and shops becoming a public nuisance again.
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