01-12-2003 22:07									#1
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Forgetful Man Pays for Gasoline with Nephew
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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.

	02-12-2003 00:34									#2
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Price of gas just keeps going up.

But its nice of this lady.

	02-12-2003 05:04									#3
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What a rip off ! You can get 30 litres of gas & have your windshield washer fluid topped off in exchange for a 9 year old here in Alberta.

What's the going exchange rate in your country ?

	02-12-2003 05:09									#4
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Disgusting behavior on the part of the uncle, but I commend the lady.

	02-12-2003 05:47									#6
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What Verto said

	02-12-2003 15:57									#7
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Damn...

After coming home to his nephews parents:
"Where's our son"
"Oh, I forgot to mention... I sold him for $1.5... here's your money"

	02-12-2003 16:11									#8
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you would get more employing him as a chimney sweep

	02-12-2003 16:36									#9
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There was a fine reportage about Cambodia. Many parents asked the reporter to take their kids with him in Greece so they could have a better life because there is no life for them in Cambodia (they say). People are extremely poor and it's their "way" of ensuring a better future for their kids. I suspect this is what that was all about. Give the kid to someone with money to feed him. Which is a sad situation really.

	02-12-2003 17:26									#10
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Damn, Cambodia must be extremely bad if living in Greece is considered a better life for them. Most people who at least send their kids to a first-world country. Poor people.

	02-12-2003 17:28									#11
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dammit drake, you stole my line

	02-12-2003 17:29									#12
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well US is out of the question. If burgers won't kill you someone for your snickers will. Norway it's ok though if you can stand the cold.

	02-12-2003 17:30									#13
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quote: someone for your snikcers will.

I've never heard of anyone getting killed in America for their candy bar.

	02-12-2003 17:31									#14
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I'm sure this has happened too. But I was talking about your athletic footwear.

	02-12-2003 17:31									#15
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You mean trainers?

	02-12-2003 17:32									#16
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Will it make any difference when they'll be carrying you to the morgue?

	02-12-2003 17:34									#17
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Yes. I want to know what I shouldn't be taking with me; my Snickers bar or my trainers?

	02-12-2003 17:35									#18
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They are an option not a necessaire accesoire. You can be killed for your wallet too. But don't tempt fate by wearing snickers either.

	02-12-2003 17:38									#19
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Just kidding there, Paiktis. Greece is

And I think you hit the nail on the head. He could have given her something else like his wallet or some clothes or something, instead of the boy. And the fact that he never came back speaks for itself.

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	02-12-2003 17:40									#20
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sneakers?

	02-12-2003 17:41									#21
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Ah sneakers it is then. Thanks
And what if they gave him money or clothes? I doubt they would last long...

	02-12-2003 17:48									#22
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after your edit: What I'm proposing is that this could have been planned. Giving the boy up I mean.

	02-12-2003 17:57									#23
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Yeah, what I ment was that the uncle could easily have found something else to give as a guarantee he would return. So it probably was planned. I'd like to think that giving away your nephew isn't somethinh you do on impulse

	02-12-2003 17:59									#24
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quote: Ah sneakers it is then.

Sneakers are what the British call them. The real name for them is trainers.

	02-12-2003 18:02									#25
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quote: Yeah, what I ment was that the uncle could easily have found something else to give as a guarantee he would return. So it probably was planned. I'd like to think that giving away your nephew isn't somethinh you do on impulse

Me too...!
But it is bad even if it was planned, which does seem to have been that way, giving your nephew to a complete stranger because you can't feed him... Unless he had done his reseacrh beforehand wether that woman had kids of her own... wether she was trustworthy and compassionate and with enough money for the kid... Which would implicate much more planning! But I thought this was really really sad when the reporter said that they offered him their kids to take them back to Greece... He WAS a complete stranger to them, but they would prefer to have their kids go away with a stranger anyway instead of them living in Cambodia... really sad any way you look at it

	02-12-2003 18:12									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Drake Tungsten quote: Ah sneakers it is then. Sneakers are what the British call them. The real name for them is trainers.

You don't even have a language of your own so shut up and get killed for your sneakers. Alright mate? :dimples:

	02-12-2003 18:24									#27
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:snickers:

	02-12-2003 20:07									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Drake Tungsten quote: Ah sneakers it is then. Sneakers are what the British call them. The real name for them is trainers.

We do not, we call them trainers too.

and if your're old enough you call snickers marathons.

	02-12-2003 20:30									#29
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Good basis for a novel, there.

One thing after another happens to the uncle which have the effect of preventing him going back - landing in gaol, say, then being deported, then getting entangled with some designing female etc etc.

Any number of possible resolutions.

	02-12-2003 20:44									#30
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quote: We do not, we call them trainers too.

And we actually call them sneakers. Thanks for ruining the deception.