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Enjoying the trip of a lifetime to Thailand, university student Isabelle Brennan strokes a young tiger at a popular tourist attraction – one of the few places in the world where you can pet the deadly animals while they sleep.

But just minutes after a photo was taken, another 400lb tiger leapt into the frame, knocking the 19-year-old to the ground with its paw and sinking its teeth into her thigh.

‘I feel lucky to be alive. Everything happened so fast. One minute I was petting a tiger’s back, the next it turned its head and knocked me to the ground with its paw.


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Can some one please explain to me which bloody tiger attacked this girl?????

The thing is with a story like this is, do the people doing the planting of dodgy goods on innocent strangers actually know who will be searching the bags when they get to the airport, answer, probably not. So if these people doing the planting of said goods are to gain from this, then How ? Unless ALL the airport security staff are in on it.

Very bad news if this sort of thing is happening anywhere,.

What would have happened if they did get through security?

Would the planters have someone at their destination waiting to remove the drugs from these people, not knowing where these travellers would be heading, Probably not.

So all in all, it is obviously a home grown scam to extort money, and more black news for Thailand and its hope to encourage people to visit.

Another thought has crossed my mind too. If these people were experienced travellers, that then only spotted the problem of tampering with their luggage , why did they not see or check it before they left the hotel ????

One of my students who lives in Maptaput told me yesterday that oil is now on the beaches there.

I went along the coast from Ban Phe to Laem Mae Phim a few days after the initial incident and I was really surprised by the apparent lack of activity occurring.

Yes, I could see that there was some activity on the sea across the channel in the vicinity of Ao Phrao , but that was it to be honest.

I saw no boats or spraying or monitoring on the sea in the channel at from Ban Phe to LMP, which was surprising after I had seen the satellite images of the slick moving towards that area only one day before.

Then when I was talking with a couple of the local kite surfers I was told, "it is gone now towards Chantaburi" ?????

So where, one has to ask, has this slick gone and where were all the boats helicopters etc that should have been spraying this slick as it was travelling through the channel between Kho Samet and Ban Phe???????????????????????

On another slightly off topic point regarding the case of the monk,

Why did it take so long to freeze his assets?

How much money was left in the accounts before they froze them?

How much was stashed into foreign bank accounts before they got frozen?

How many people and who had their dividends paid up before they got frozen?

Maybe this guy missed his dividend, hence the reason for him now bleating like a lost lamb.

and who would have expected anything else other than mistrust by the silent masses, in a country run purely by corruption????????

HAhaha needed a good laugh this morning.

Just came back from Pattaya, and to see the number of foreigners working in places, in jobs that are normally reserved for thai's only, suggests to me that there must be some slippery "turn the other way", handouts going from someone to someone else, as I am sure , must also be the case in places like Phuket and Samui by the sound of it .

I don't know Phuket , but how many cameras do they need? Are there enough places to fix so many cameras onto ?

Dont see what the balcony has to do with this.

Lucky for him he fell from the 4th storey "after a night out" , the body is more flexible , but on the other hand, ..after a normal day out maybe he would not have used the fire escape...

I think most of us living in Thailand have done stupid things like this ... and he is only 32

Hope he recovers soon

Obviously the balcony has nothing to do with this story. However, what should be brought into question is the safety of the fire escape, which, if it allows people to fall during a possile panic rush during a fire , during which some people may be intoxicated during any attempted escape, isnt much of an escape , is it ????

what's wrong with people falling from balconies nowadays ... when its not in pattaya its in phuket then bangkok .... are there often similar falls like this in other countries ? I dont reckon in my country it happens frequently.

Big Difference

If this happened in Pattaya,the story would be that a thai bargirl has thrown him off,or she has got her motorbike bf to do it,then the police say suicide.If in Bangkok its a tragic accident.

No . the difference with this story if you bother to read it, is that he was with friends who could obviously verify that no bar girls were or their boyfriends were pushing any one off this balcony. Regardless of where it occurred. Doh !!!

Cannot belive the bitching that is going on regarding this thread,, perhaps the swede felt the same way , but had had enough, perhaps all the recent jumpers had also, had enough of reading some of the dross comments on here, when things like this happen.

On another point though.

How long would it take to asphyxiate your self in a plastic bag .

How long from the time of call recieved by pattaya police did it take them to get there?

Dont they use radios to communicate with officers near the scene, rather than try to battle through the traffic, that must be at a peak at 5pm?

How long had he been dead? Could he not be revived if he had not long died.? Was any attempt made?.

Had he also done tablets along with the beer that was maybe drunk from the beer bottles in the box.

Suely these are more relevant questions to be made, rather than paranoically trying to cast more shadows about who the perpetrators may have been ?

Whatever his reasons, RIP to the guy.

people can suffer depression very easy and also hide their feelings of depression very easily http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23226524

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23259865

Fake or Real??? There is audio technology known as "Voice Printing". If they claim it is fake why not get it tested.

Whilst I agree with independent verification, who the hell could they find that woud be above being bribed to give an answer to the question. Is it fake or not ?

Who the hell would decide that the verifier is not a somehow interested party in this debacle?????

As usual over here it will become next weeks fish and chip paer wrapping ( English coloquialism for last weeks headline news )

Mmm, Could not help read this on the Beeb website and wonder what would happen if Asia's biggest economy was to go Tits Up, what would happen to the rest of it's associates??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23026947

China stocks crumble on credit Tightening fears?????

So he is known to have undergoung connections , Investigate ? No

He admits beating shit out of her, investigate and charge? No

She says he is a bad man, investigate ? No probably not

She defames him by making Public, he sues, she will lose, Yes more than likely.

TIT, Cannot wait to get out of here TBH but for many other reasons other than this. Thailand for Thais, Have it guys, Yindee Krap

There are a few points about this video that i do not get:-

1, How come the web cam was perfectly placed towards the door before the Thai guy arrives? Surely if you had a web cam on while sat at your computer it would be facing the user of the computer, wouldnt it?

2, How do we know the gun is fake?

3. The Thai guy doesnt really seem that outraged.

4, Why doesnt the Russian seem to lock the door and chain it when the Thai guy leaves ?

I t all looks a bit contrived to me. Dont know what motive there may be for doing that though. Just saying like.

Maybe the answers to why or where or what she may end up having to be doing lie in a story posted on the BEEB yesterday reagrding abducted kids from Vietnam anding up in care in the UK only to escape there and return home to Vietnam , very often in order to protect their families from threats.

Tragic stories for all the victims, but sadly more widespread than I had ever realised.

Kids from 3rd World countries stand little or absolutely no chance of being found, as mentioned in an earlier post regarding Ben and Madeleine. Look how many man hours were put into those two cases alone, and what was the result?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22903511

This is a protest against corruption , the only problem is that the people are ignorant or totally blind to the fact that it is endemic at all levels.

The People who are demonstrating against this may be just totally pissed off with the fact that they are poor and cullpable of wrong doings in the eyes of the law, whilst the rich are above the law because they can pay to be above the law .

There seems to be a mood of great discomfort within Thailand at the moment, as it moves towards ASEAN membership, and maybe the many are begiinning to feel threaten that their livelihoods are at risk and that their education system as been badly letting them down for many years, and is without signs of improvement, and that corruption is badly letting the country down in the eyes of the world.

I see so many Facebook posts from my Thai students denouncing all that is wrong in Thailand at the moment, and most are from Issan ( red shirt country ), and yet today I was in Rayong ( Yellow Shirt Country ) where I also saw a masked demonstration against corruption , denouncing the Shinawatra clan.

But these were not rich wealthy Thais ( or typical wealthy yellow shirts) , but young every day people who may ride a Yamaha Fino or Honda Wave, rather than a Ferrarri or Merc. ( see pics ) .

So ask yourselves , before you go down the usual TV Forum responsive route of slagging off all Thais Yellow, or in particular red from what i see often here ,

Could this not be a similar response happening here, which is similar to what has been happening all over the world recently, where the masses are beginning to revolt against the elite rich and controlling, media operating, imposing regimes, because Thai people have laptops, Global interconnectivity ( at the moment ) and are maybe comming to realise that they do not have to put up with is c**p anymore ?????

This is so so sad, i drive in the Khonkaen traffic everyday and witness 1st hand some of the idiotic driving around the city.

R.I.P. and hope the driver has the common decency to hand himself.

He probably will when any substances have cleared out of his system . So sorry for the young Nen, RIP

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong............

My understanding this government, 'Thairakthai', (Thai-Love-Thai) made an election promise. If they get into power they will see to it that everyone will get two keys....A key to a house and car.

The government will help each Thai citizen get cheap housing, (government employees first) and money back on a new car......10000 Baht back, I think in tax rebates.

I think the housing promise is a great idea, (still to see how this goes) but, the car thing, a lot of Thai's can't afford to buy and maintain a 'Click' let alone a 1000,000 Bath car. I wonder where the government cash back will end up?

Time soon to take advantage of the Hi-So car repossessions........And check-out the car auctions.

Are you really suggesting the price of second hand cars may come down as well in proportion to the cheaper available HI SO cars on the market?? I do not think so. Thai people are so much being ripped off in the second hand market, compared to the west. NO checks on mileage declarations , no checks on previous accident history etc etc , and yet near same price of a new car , under 5 years old, and please do not get me started on prices in car tents that are being asked for cars upto 25 years old , what a frigging joke !!! or am I being quted a farnang price ? no probably not when the price is often in the windoe of the car,, but if a thai buys it, i bet the discount is greater , isnt it?

Hi Guys,

Just came back from Immigration ( Rayong ) yesterday, after trying to transfer an existing visa form an old passport to a new passport, only to be refused as I did not have the relevant document from my embassy stating that the old passport had been raplaced and rquesting that the visa be transferred.

The guys at immigration provide an example letter to demonstrate the format of what is required.

Wasn't there a plan mentioned a month or two ago to build a massive multi billion baht track and test circuit near Buriram . Now that would be better, as there would be more room there at a purpose built venue, could do the super bike events there too . I am suprprised every one is so easy to knock the idea , it is as a previous poster mentioned a much needed new event to push Thailand forward a bit .

Thanks for the answers and comment guys, the reason I was asking is due to my doubts on this story, I was also informed last night that up in isaan where this tale originates from ( allegedly ) that the locals will actually collect and freeze them if, which i guess is their way of harvesting them .