Man
Cuts Off Teens Penises
A Thai house
painter cut off the penises of two teenagers with a knife after
he found out they had stolen $1,250 of his savings from an ATM
machine. Manit Srithammathan, 40, told police the teenagers, now
in the hospital, deserved the punishment as they had betrayed
his kindness in letting them stay at his Bangkok suburban house.
"There's nothing
they deserved more for stealing the money I saved that could have
helped me get a job abroad," a police spokesman quoted him as
saying. The painter, facing charges of life-threatening assaults
and unlawful confinement, said he could not control his rage as
the boys, aged 14 and 15, refused to confess to the theft which
he discovered after checking a video record kept by the bank.
Manit threw the severed penises into a canal before his neighbors
tipped police off about the incident.
