King Prasat Thong ordered that both Dutch men be sentenced to death by elephant trampling, but while they were lashed to a pole in the hot sun awaiting execution, Jeremias Van Vliet, the company director, tried to save their lives. Van Vliet was ultimately forced to bow in humiliation to King Prasat Thong and beg for their release. The two men were let go, but Dutch authorities severely reprimanded Van Vliet for the act of bowing to a foreign king. The Picnic Incident, however, like other historical events, may have actually happened instead in the west at the Worachet. Reasonable arguments can be made for either locations