Thai fruit seller offers to sell his eye to pay off debt

The man said he needed money to repay his informal debt and that he was willing to part with an eye to settle it. - PANDA LAB DOCTOR/FACEBOOK

BANGKOK: A fruit seller in Bangkok was forced to offer one of his eyes for sale due to financial debt.

A photo of the 57-year-old man sitting in front of his fruit stall, with a sign that translates into “Eye for Sale”, went viral when it was posted on Facebook by a Thai citizen on March 8.