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I read somewhere that if you drink the contents of 100 bottles of water, you will have ingested the equivalent of one (empty) bottle. This has been linked by some sources to cancer and stuff...I have seen bottles being refilled in small eateries from the tap, meaning that in addition to the obvious, the quality of the bottle is deteriorating each time, making it even more obnoxious. At least in Portugal we could drive once a week to a certified clean source of spring water.

It's not all gloom and doom, nobody died from drinking water.

I would like your source that shows no one has died from drinking water.

Notable cases

• Leah Betts died on November 16, 1995 as the result of drinking too much water, though in the media her death was initially attributed to taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party.^[12]
  
• On September 12, 1999, US Air Force basic trainee Micah J. Schindler died of heat stroke, severely complicated by water intoxication, two days after becoming seriously ill during a 5.8 miles (9.3 km) march. The Air Force changed its recruit training procedures as a result.^[13]
  
• On June 9, 2002, 4-year-old Cassandra Killpack of Springville, Utah died as a result of water intoxication when her parents forcefully fed her as much as one gallon (3.8 liters) of water in a short period while she was being disciplined. Her mother, Jennette Killpack, was convicted in 2005 of child abuse homicide.^[14]
  
• On October 12, 2002, 3-year-old Rosita Gonzalez of Hollywood, Florida died of water intoxication when her babysitter Nancy Gayoso punished her by forcing her to drink three quarts (2.8 liters) of water in a four-hour period.^[15][16] Gayoso was arrested and charged with murder in the first degree on March 10, 2003. After being declared incompetent to stand trial in 2004 and 2005,^[17] Gayoso was found competent on March 26, 2007.
  
• In 2003, Walter Dean Jennings, a freshman history major at SUNY Plattsburgh, was pledging the Psi Epsilon Chi "when he was forced to drink urine, stay awake for days and consume vast amounts of alcohol during a 10-day initiation and hazing process." According to PressRepublican.com, "On his last night of pledging the unrecognized fraternity, the 18-year-old was forced to drink gallons of water through a funnel, which caused his brain to swell from water intoxication and ultimately resulted in his death."^[18]
  
• In a much-publicized case of fraternity hazing, four members of the Chi Tau House at California State University, Chico pleaded guilty to forcing 21-year-old student Matthew Carrington to drink excessive amounts of water while performing calisthenics in a frigid basement as part of initiation rites on February 2, 2005.^[19] He collapsed and died of heart failure due to water intoxication.
  
• On January 12, 2007, Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman and a mother of 3, from Rancho Cordova, California, was found dead in her home by her mother, hours after trying to win one of Nintendo's Wii game consoles. KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. A nurse called the radio station to warn them about the danger in which they were putting people, but the disc jockeys were less than impressed. Lucy Davidson, the winner of the contest, was severely sickened while picking up her prize. Civil charges against the radio station were filed by Jennifer's family,^[20] and the family was eventually awarded $16.5 million in the ensuing wrongful death lawsuit.^[21] The FCC launched its own investigation to determine if the station violated the terms of its operating license.
  
• In 2008, Jacqueline Henson, a 40-year-old British woman, died after drinking four liters of water in under two hours as part of her LighterLife diet plan.^[22]
  
• Other notable fatalities due to water intoxication include Australian schoolgirl Anna Wood (although similar to Leah Betts, her death was incorrectly attributed to ecstasy use),^[23]2002 Boston Marathon competitor Cynthia Lucero,^[24] and Washington, D.C. police officer James McBride.^[25]
  
• British actor Anthony Andrews survived a case of water intoxication in 2003. He was performing as Henry Higgins in a revival of the musical My Fair Lady at the time, and consumed up to eight litres of water a day. He was unconscious and in intensive care for three days.^[26][27]
  
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All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." Paracelsus, 1493 - 1541

Come on, you can poison yourself with anything, I didn't say anything about drinking 8 liters a day, that is unusual behaviour. Many people poison themselves with alcohol regularly.

we have to cope with the village's buffaloes, cows, chickens,dogs and ducks pooing and eating things in our garden, and until I get a fence fixed, will have to for some time. We get dogs poisoned as well. The problems of the OP seem minor in comparison.

I had a great job for a few years but a downside was that I had to clean up after the noble hockey players had left, every second Sunday night. I would rather have cleaned the toilets than cleaned up after these thoughtless, really manly guys had spat out their malignant crap all around the ice rink (where they nicely froze to the ground despite a smoking ban). These are the same guys that could without a qualm come and sit down next to you while you were eating and light up without asking.

I think those days are disappearing but guys, you shouldn't be surprised that the pendulum has swung the other way.

I am addicted to sex but don't throw used condoms around, I like a beer but don't throw my empty cans to the ground.

I wouldn't bother with any shots at all.

And I don't know anyone else who bothered either.

Sheryl is the first person I have ever read about, having rabies vaccine without first being bitten.

well in that case why get insurance? You might go to the doctor for a dog bite but how about exposure to all the other animals liable to be carriers (mice, rats, bats, monkeys...not necessarily bites, a few unnoticed scratches will do it )? This isn't a mild problem that you can tough out, and I find actually advising people not to get the shot irresponsible. The guy has to make up his own mind.

A short stay person maybe doesn't need rabies prevention but anyone living out in the sticks will be feeling better for it, especially if he lives 20 Km from the next hospital as we do.

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Just got back to Buriram last night /this morning after a 6 hours bus trip. The driver drove ok, I was right up front. However, even at 02.00 on long open stretches of road with no car in sight, he seemed to consider using the headlights on full beam as only for warning others of his approach. So there we are, traveling really fast with a completely inadequate braking distance available. I noticed this around midnight an didn't get any more sleep.

Looking around, I noticed that Thai drivers would rather drive without lights if they could (they often do) and consider using the headlights on full beam as frivolous stuff for sissies. Likewise windscreen wipers and gears or brakes, this I saw as the neighbour took us back home in my own car, he wasn't even paying for the 'lecticity or the wipers.

Same thing for tetanus, another nasty. I get immunised regularly due to my (previous) job but on the odd occasion where I went in for stitches they always gave me a booster. You'll feel better if you get immunised.

As for the information given by Sheryl, I am sure that it correct but coming from Switzerland I got a different series of shots, I onlg got one shot for rabies, and I should repeat my hepatitis shot 6 months after the first one (Havrix).

No insult intended, but these questions are typical of people that come from countries with state based health systems, in the end everybody has to set his own priorities.

I read somewhere that if you drink the contents of 100 bottles of water, you will have ingested the equivalent of one (empty) bottle. This has been linked by some sources to cancer and stuff...I have seen bottles being refilled in small eateries from the tap, meaning that in addition to the obvious, the quality of the bottle is deteriorating each time, making it even more obnoxious. At least in Portugal we could drive once a week to a certified clean source of spring water.

It's not all gloom and doom, nobody died from drinking water.

I am rather doubtful about public water filters. Do you guys think that their filters are cleaned / changed as per specs? A friend of mine bought a ฿50 000 filter and he washed the filters every day (a bit obsessive maybe), replacing the filters was expensive but he did do it. The only guys that will test your water are the agricultural departments of universities I believe, fairly expensive and of course only relating to the particular day just before Somchai sprayed gunk all over your roof. I also wonder if, like tourist deaths, water pollution results are not likely to be doctored before being made public.

Anyway I got food poisoning the one time I drank iced water at a street food stall, otherwise I have been ok drinking water collected off the roof, respecting common sense of course,

Any drink benefits from using good water to begin with, you might want to look into water filters. Boil for 20 minutes? I don't think anyone does that

Is it safe to drink coffees, etc made with tap water which has been boiled as per advice given by water companies in the UK whenever their treatment works go on the blink? Or should hot drinks only be made from boiled bottled/purified water?

Doubtless this has already been asked on TV many times, but a quick search has not turned up any relevant threads.

@ Mr Southern man

Well bully for you, but I as well as most other people aren't interested in how many vehicles you own, doesn't seem to be relevant to the argument. Can you in fact write a sentence disagreeing with somebody without using it? Most people feel insulted when they read it. This may well be your intention but it doesn't help you win arguments. Same goes for using the word 'fool' and what was the other one, 'smarty pants'? Nice one, most entertaining.

I used the the 'BS' term in this forum for the first time today, had to do it because you used it and you seem to think it is something to be used in intelligent discussion. That's my beef.

If you don't understand that, then maybe because you didn't learn English or manners.

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The fact that the insurance companies will be paying out for this sort of thing seems to suggest to my mind that they will be able to exert pressure to ensure that there are less accidents?

I can think of a few road safety campaigns on TV (in Farang-land) and elsewhere that were paid for by insurance companies.

Any road accident victim, or just Thai?

As a farang you are always the cause of the accident, as if you had not come to Thailand, the accident would not have happened. Ergo you will recieve treatment and then the insurrance company will claim the mony from you as per: "Then later the insurance company involved will collect medical expenses from those who violated traffic laws."

B.S.

The one who was wrong was wrong.

Of course I know all of the cops bosses so there is no way that they could put me in the wrong if I was not.

BS yourself, owner, of course, of many new vehicles.

First time I used the term on TV, some people seem to find it an intelligent and use it all the time.

I retire defeated. I have seen a few discussions about liguistics and they inevitably end up with seemingly intelligent people using words like 'ignorant' and so forth with reference to other people.

Not meaning bny any means my friend Jayman of course.

Switzerland has managed, despite its population increasing by 60% since 1970, to reduce traffic fatalities from about 1500 a year to about 360 now. It is no longer fun to drive there but being dead anywhere isn't fun either. Police checks are stringent and I was paying speeding and parking fines as part of business expenses. Alcohol checks at 6am. Speed cameras everywhere, quickly getting you a month's to three months' ban, I got banned for a month for not correctly cleaning my windscreen (it was minus 20 and my heater couldn't hack it). It needs a lot of money and political determination plus education backed up by the population to get this kind of thing carried out and I can't see this lot caring one Satang about road safety unless it's their own kids kill themselves in a sports car at the age of 15.

I haven't seen any serious accidents in Thailand in my admittedly limited experience, just a couple of guys coming off their bikes for no obvious reason and sliding along the road. Gone to sleep I expect.

...going way off topic, I think the OP has he answers he was looking for. I am expecting at any moment someone to say he must have ฿100 000 a month, forgetting to say that he lives in Bangkok, has two kids at the International School, a car and a maid, never eats Thai food and only shops in the Mall.

Can be done although I am sure that Tommo could use a little more. A computer burnt, car accidented, sick buffalo - my wife's nephew just ahd a motorbike accisent, guess who's going to pay?

Maybe I don't use them because I try (not always successfully) to keep emotions out of posts to complete strangers. Another reason is that I think that they are silly, especially posts that have more emoticons than words.

Go on now, I expect some really refreshing posts consisting entirely of emoticons.

Too young, R.I.P.

One question though, looking at the car in the picture and reading the topic description I'm wondering if seat belts were used and if the Air Cushion system functioned

Would they have been of any use seeing that the car plunged at least 20 feet? Does anybody have an informed opinion?

Vehicles falling from a great height are nothing new in BKK. What does that say about the efficiency of retaining walls?

That they are, presumably, effective up to the speed limits of the expressways and overpasses. Both for the height of the barrier and the radius of the curve.

It's a grim exercise, driving along the expressways to see the scratches, gouges and tire marks on every single curve (and most straight stretches for that matter).

Roads are built to certain standards which, while allowing some latitude, assume that people drive sensibly. I seem to remember that UK standards (1970ies) were supposed to enable a car with bald tyres travelling at the speed limit, to negotiate curves. I can't imagine even a Merc going through retaining wall - retaining walls are an integral design feature of an overpass, this isn't a place where you should save money. The car has hit the wall and flipped over it, easy enough to do if you are driving much too fast on a wet road. You feel impregnable when you are driving a Merc, instead of you controlling the car, it tends to control you, as you can see every day with larger cars.

Which is why, repeat after me: I must not let my children drive a big car before they have learnt road sense. I'm sure that the poor parents have realised this now.

dam_n, forgot it.

http://iphone.mythailandblog.com/2010/08/tips-for-using-an-iphone-in-thailand/

I found the following link, I plan to go to the MBK in Bangkok soon. Everybody says that jail break is easy and so it is, however I still couldn't unlock mine. After restore I found that a lot of data was missing.

In view of the fact that, I suppose, many of us oldies haven't yet quite caught up with computers yet, I am a little surprised that there is such a strong accent on 'retired'.

import a family from Isaan?

Not a racist comment, people from my Isaan village have warned me not to let my Siamese cat outside, it'll finish up on a table somewhere.

Maybe just a ruse to keep your cat from peeing, shitting all over the place and killing their pets.

Responsible pet owners keep their animals on their own premises or on a leash when going for a walk.

Yermanee

oh, like the neighbours' cows buffaloes, chickens and ducks shit all over the place including the bit that I think of as 'my bit'? And like dogs (even in Bangkok) and occasionally even buffalo disappear without a trace in Isaan? Good thinking Batman. We have three dogs and they never leave the property they know to the inch how far they can go. Go for a walk with a dog? When they have their 2 rais? We would be a laughing stock.

Don't worry, a fence is on it's way, about 600 Meters long I think.

import a family from Isaan?

Not a racist comment, people from my Isaan village have warned me not to let my Siamese cat outside, it'll finish up on a table somewhere.

Big , big news for me would be if a big project somewhere was carried out without corruption. This report will soon be forgotten about, like all the others.