THE FAIRGROUND romance between a runaway Romeo and Juliet who fled Phuket on a bus has come to an end after a short life together on the run.
As Phuketwan accurately reported, 14-year-old Laongta Namsra headed off with a boy named ''Bow'' from a neighboring shooting gallery on the last night of the annual fair at Wat Chalong.
The young couple fled Phuket, catching a bus off the island, and headed south for Had Yai.
There, they joined a local fairground. And then someone at the fairground recognised them, and called Laonta's parents, who operate stalls at fairs around southern Thailand.
Father Sing drove through the night to collect his daughter, but when young Bow and Laongta spotted the family vehicle in a car park, Bow hopped on a motorcycle and took off.
Laongta told her father there was no great cause for alarm. The couple were in love, but had only kissed and held hands, nothing more.
''We became good friends on Phuket,'' Laongta told her father. ''We just went and talked a lot.''
Bow, it turned out, did have a lot of tattoos for a 15-year-old, but was regarded as being a pleasant youngster. He had lost both his parents in a road crash at the age of six, and learned to fend for himself a lot since then.
For Laongta, the future is school back in Ayudthaya for now. And the message to Bow from her father is, come back when my daughter has turned 16.
As Phuketwan accurately reported, 14-year-old Laongta Namsra headed off with a boy named ''Bow'' from a neighboring shooting gallery on the last night of the annual fair at Wat Chalong.
The young couple fled Phuket, catching a bus off the island, and headed south for Had Yai.
There, they joined a local fairground. And then someone at the fairground recognised them, and called Laonta's parents, who operate stalls at fairs around southern Thailand.
Father Sing drove through the night to collect his daughter, but when young Bow and Laongta spotted the family vehicle in a car park, Bow hopped on a motorcycle and took off.
Laongta told her father there was no great cause for alarm. The couple were in love, but had only kissed and held hands, nothing more.
''We became good friends on Phuket,'' Laongta told her father. ''We just went and talked a lot.''
Bow, it turned out, did have a lot of tattoos for a 15-year-old, but was regarded as being a pleasant youngster. He had lost both his parents in a road crash at the age of six, and learned to fend for himself a lot since then.
For Laongta, the future is school back in Ayudthaya for now. And the message to Bow from her father is, come back when my daughter has turned 16.
True life story with a seeming happy ending; perhaps a check out at K Mechai's on Soi 12 on the way back to Ayudhya would be wise!
Posted by ssresident on February 18, 2011 17:08