When many of us heard that a 25-year-old Canadian Hong Kong University student had disappeared, it didn’t even make the news in Hong Kong.
It was first reported in the Huffington Post.
That was already weird.
The last some of us saw the student was when he and his band- Milk Teeth- played on December 10th at the Clockenflap Music and Arts Festival.
Then began the search for him.
This was short-lived when we heard that Joey had already been found by the police. Days earlier.
He had been found slumped, dead, inside a public toilet with a syringe in one arm and a needle in the other.
Joey Basha was left-handed and where each of this paraphernalia made little sense to anyone who knew him.
The next day came a big story in the newspapers on his death- and interviews and some telling quotes from members of his family.
The next day? Not a word.
Again, the news of, apparently, how he died, came from the Huffington Post and Canadian newspapers.
We are not investigators, so we’ll let the experts and “texperts” take this case further.
From what we remember, there has not been a death of an expatriate student in Hong Kong this high-profile since the Sixties.
This was when a drug like smack was readily available in Causeway Bay and Repulse Bay.
Today, well, “It just does not happen” in safe, sterile Hong Kong.
There’s much more to this story than the tidbits we’ve been fed.
Time will bring out the truth.
In the meantime, here is Joey Basha doing what he loved doing best: Making Music with his band.
Bring on the electronic freak show media, Joey Basha
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