Police were called on Monday to intervene when a fight between two women at a Phuket market turned physical and a knife was pulled. The fight was between a vendor and customer after one decided not to buy the other one’s pants.
The incident happened at a stall at Expo Department Store on Chana Charoen Road in Phuket Town, confirmed Lt. Col, Rachan Pannawai of the Phuket City Police.
Two teenage sisters, who police declined to name, arrived at the stall and one of them tried on some tight pants. However, the legs were too long and the girl declined to buy them.
Unhappy with the lost sale, the vendor, a woman who police also declined to name, offered a sour expression, which evoked a tirade of abuse from the teen shopper.
The stall vendor replied in kind, and told the two girls to leave because she didn’t want to fight.
Yes, it escalated quickly.
The two girls refused to leave and the other sister joined the verbal attack. This time the vendor threatened to call security if the girls did not leave.
They still refused to go and said they were willing to fight, to which the vendor responded by grabbing a knife from the shelf behind her and threatening the girls with it.
The girls then launched their attack, in what they called self-defense, Lt. Col. Rachan explained.
The entire exchange was caught on video and posted to Facebook, by a friend of the teen who tried the trousers. Needless to say, the video has since gone viral among Thai viewers garnering 39,000 views since Monday on the Facebook page Voices of Phuket People.
Throughout the three-minute video, the vendor yells “Bai! Bai! Bai!” We know that she’s asking them to leave her shop, but it’s fun to wonder if she might have wanted them to buy the trousers, as in “buy,” or she’s bidding them farewell and and saying “bye.”
“While grappling for the knife, the girl who tried on the trousers suffered a cut to one of her hands, which required her to go to hospital for stitches,” Col. Rachan said.
“Afterwards, the two teenagers and their parents came to the Phuket City Police Station to resolve the matter,” he said.
No charges pressed, he added.
“The matter was settled with each party apologizing to each other,” Col. Rachan noted. No word on whether anyone had to do an apologetic wai, but we assume so.
Ladies, why behave like this?
Story: The Phuket News
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