Female tourists in Phuket to get safety whistles

[Big Boy]

back to the subject of whistles for females,

if a woman was being attacked & drew attention with her whistle, how many people would intervene if her attacker was wielding a machete??

I'll just reflect back a couple of years to where I live now - Yate in England. A fairly quiet suburb of Bristol. At the time we had a rapist who attacked a few young ladies late at night.

You can imagine the local reaction, and local girls were issued with attack alarms - electronic beasts that gave off an ear-damaging noise. I for one thought that if one ever went off that it would be treated as a car or house alarm - ignored.

A few days later he struck again. This time the alarm was sounded, and even though it was about 3 in the morning, the guy was caught (didn't have a machete, but his own weapon in his hand), and restrained (if you can call it that) until the police arrived. The reports stated that about a dozen men sleeping in their beds jumped to action as soon as that alarm sounded.

One would like to think these whistles might have the same reaction if ever used in anger.

[Zidane]

I'm pretty sure the vast majority of farangs would act positively if they heard the whistle,even if the assailant was weilding a weapon.
Of course,if its in a secluded area the whistle would probably not be heard.
But say,a farang women was being attacked and the only people within "whistling earshot" were Thai,would they come running to her aid ?
Youd like to think so but....

Incidentally there was another murder of a farang last week.I cant find it mentioned on the forum so apologies if I've missed it.

Ivor Chandler,a retired ICI worker from Cleveland,was found dead at a house in Petchabun where he was staying with his Thai girlfriend.
Apparently,whilst they were sleeping,a Thai man wielding a machete entered the house and attacked Mr.Chandler with a machete
One of the blows to his kneck proved fatal.Thai police have a man in custody over the attack.

Zidane

[sandman67]

Heres a newslink for the Ivor Chandler incident.....

http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/mos ... attack.php

...seems, from some sources, his girlfriend's other boyfriend did it.....