Foreigner gets beaten up with baseball bat

We found this on the blog Writer’s Block. It’s a story about a foreigner who got beaten by baseball bats at a Kaohsiung disco called Dreams. According to the article, he was accused of dancing with a Taiwanese girl and touching her breast. But his friends had all been witness to him not having danced with any Taiwanese woman that night, having only danced with the Writer’s Block webauthor Feli, a Canadian woman. There are more stories creeping out about violence against foreigners in Taiwan, like

Jeli wrote in a comment to the article:

Just ask around and the stories will come out.

Another friend of mine, a Canadian guy was at the club talking to a Taiwanese woman when he got hit over head with a beer bottle.

Yet another guy was kissing his Taiwanese girlfriend _outside_ of the club, not even in the actual club, when someone came up and hit him over the head with a scooter lock! The guy had to get stiches in his head.

Yes I’ve talked to Thomas about publicizing this but he’s not sure what exactly he’s at liberty to say since charges have been pressed. Wouldn’t want anything that he said to go on record and come back and bite him in the #%@$!

It’s definitely open season on white foreigners in Dre@m$!

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Johnny Z

I am a cultural geographer by nature, and now a photographer, videographer, musician, webmaster, father, and also an English teacher.

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