CAPiTA Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Forgetful Man Pays for Gasoline with Nephew Mon Dec 1, 9:28 AM ET PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian who found he had forgotten his wallet after filling up his motorbike with petrol ended up paying for the three liters of petrol with his nephew. The Kampuchea Thmey (New Cambodia) newspaper said Monday the nine-year-old, who it named as Dy, had been on a trip with his uncle in March 2002 to try and track down his father in a nearby province in the war-scarred southeast Asian nation. However, their motorbike ran out of petrol before reaching their destination and, after filling up with three liters of gasoline from a roadside stall, the uncle realized he had no money. Eventually he convinced the old lady selling petrol to take his nephew as a guarantee he would return with the cash -- about $1.5, the paper said. Nearly two years later, she is still waiting -- but has opted to keep the youngster. "I have decided to take care of him and raise him as my own grandson," she told the paper. Despite a huge U.N.-backed reconstruction effort in the early 1990s, child rights remain a distant dream in Cambodia where society still bears the scars of decades of civil war, including the Khmer Rogue genocide of the 1970s. Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 cambodia's pretty fucked up. a friend of mine is cambodian, and some of the shit that goes down over there is crazy. at least this kid got a home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz technic Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 MORE SOUTH EAST ASIAN CRAZINESS http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/...reut/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyeforAnEYE Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 that's fucked up. The only way i'd give a loved one up is if it was for a hover board or something like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPiTA Posted December 2, 2003 Author Share Posted December 2, 2003 Originally posted by EyeforAnEYE that's fucked up. The only way i'd give a loved one up is if it was for a hover board or something like that I hear that, hover boards are fucking harsh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.