“When a dog bites a person, that is not news, as a result of it occurs so typically. But if a man bites a canine, that’s news.” PATHUM THANI: The above quote, often attributed to 19th-century New York Sun editor John B Bogart, is the standard maxim given to younger journalists to remind them what’s newsworthy and what’s not. It can’t have taken a lot of a leap of the imagination then for one lucky Kom Chad Luek hack to realize he was onto a winner with the story of Coke, a seven-year-old Thai Bangkaew canine who was just lately involved in a tooth-and-nail scrap to defend his owner’s home. The story starts with 21-year-old Ubon Rachathani-native Winet Chertchai’s try to interrupt into a house in broad daylight on May 8. Winet was met by the enraged house owner who noticed him trying to break in and instantly known as for help. Being Unexplained -knit neighborhood, a bunch of homeowners immediately got here to the woman’s help and Winet soon discovered himself fleeing down the soi pursued by a crowd of angry locals. Desperate for a spot to hide, Winet tried to duck right into a small grocery store. There he was greeted by shopowner and Flight Sergeant 1st Class Prasit Rungrateuk, who was brandishing his walking stick. Thinking better of it, Winet crossed the street and climbed the fence surrounding the house reverse, belonging to a different ex-air force man, 66-year-old Pilot Officer (Plt Off) Prasit Janphasuk. Once in the yard, he was confronted by the fearlessly loyal Coke. For a quantity of moments the 2 adversaries stood staring each other down; Coke baring his enamel and Winet wielding a knife. Coke then leapt forward on the intruder. Winet launched a kick into the canine’s head, but Coke deftly dodged it and crashed into Winet, knocking him to the ground. The two turned locked in a pitched battle, Coke biting Winet throughout his physique and Winet desperately trying to kick Coke away. So quick and furious was the action that some members of the fast-growing crowd of onlookers later said it was tough to separate criminal from canine. After some time, the 2 warriors returned to growling and snarling at one another. Winet then determined to play Coke at his own sport, sinking his personal canines into the dog’s ear and locking on. After 20 minutes the fight showed no signal of ending, with both contestants nonetheless going for the killer chew. It was drawn to a untimely shut, nonetheless, when Plt Off Prasit woke up from a nap and noticed what was occurring in his back yard. The old Air Force Officer called his dog to heel and the battle was over. Observers concluded that Winet got here out the loser. Covered in cuts and bruises, he was taken to Bhumibol Hospital for remedy. Lt Col Thanaphat Nawalak, an Investigating Officer at Khukhot Police Station, said that Winet was fairly badly harm and needed to be kept in hospital in a single day. The owner of the first home that Winet tried to interrupt in to didn’t need to press charges and Plt Off Prasit stated that the injuries inflicted by Coke ought to be punishment enough for the younger ne’er-do-well. Police disagreed however, and have charged Winet with arme