Over the Edge

When the tourist got to the top of the stairs leading to the overhead cross walk at Sukhumvit Road and Soi Nana the man ahead of him spilled the cup of coins held by the beggar at the top of the stairs and stole several coins. The robber looked back at the man thinking he is just a tourist and I can take more of the beggar's money but as he picked the coins from the ground and the beggar began to moan and cry out in Thai the tourist grabbed the man's belt and heaved the robber over the crosswalk barricade sending the robber 5 meters down into the Sukhumvit traffic. The robber hit the top of a taxi bounced and rolled into the road. A bus ran over the body. The tourist walked toward the Nana hotel and stopped at a pharmacy and paid the chemist three times the normal price for illegal 10 grain valiums. The tourist took one and stepped on the sidewalk as police and drivers who had stopped crowded around the body.