On the morning of 29th March 2017 roads were closed around Tha Pae Gate between 9 and 11am with dozens of ambulances, emergency vehicles and police cars lining the roads. Tourists in the vicinity reported that they saw a man, looking unkempt and wild, “with eyes of an innocent child,” said Lars Nordstrom, a visiting fisherman from Sweden. Startled, tourists tried to engage this man, but he ran