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The upper floor columns do look too slim to be carrying the weight of the roof but the structural load should have been calculated by the engineer.. From this angle, we cannot tell how much structural support there was in the center of the building at the roof. What is telling is that the lower structure started collapsing at the same time as the upper so it wasn't pancake effect of the weight of the roof collapsing each floor below it as it fell. Concrete usually takes 28 days to cure, and this building appears to have had all the formwork or shuttering removed, which shows that concrete should be near full strength. The facade usually hangs off of this structure, so it generally does not offer more structural support. So that shouldn't necessarily have been a factor. Often in earthquakes, the building starts to rotate and this causes the columns to crumble and lose any stability. In my province, here in Canada, any emergency building, such as hospitals have to have added structural integrity to withstand an earthquake. On one building we ran steel cables from the roof, down 85 feet into bedrock then put 1 million pounds of tension on the cables to hold the building in place so it wouldn't rotate if struck by an earthquake. Some buildings like our CN tower are built to sway 6 feet or more and not be too rigid. Amongst all the other scenarios possible, it would have been terrifying to be in a rooftop infinity pool when all the rocky and swaying began.

That story is full of holes.

In the video, it looked like there were 2 other men following behind. After the old man gets knocked down, the view is blocked for a moment and the 2nd guy lifts his leg in a kicking motion to the unconscious foreigner. The 3rd guy appears to be recording it from his phone. While the video does show the older guy chasing the bouncer, this video does not show what started the whole encounter.

If it was his wife who sent the driver to determine if there were other cars parked there, she might have done it with the other delivery drivers too. After 5 delivery drivers showed up at his house counting cars, he would at the least be suspicious of something going on.

Does Mr. A. look quite a bit older than 29? Perhaps not only his currency was fake? Will he be paying his fine in Euros? 50s and 500s?

Why would you think the poster is fake? It seems likely it was made by his friend or his family, and they put the information in, so it's not quite up to official standards ie metric or Imperial. Also, if it was made by a friend or family member when they say to contact British police, they might mean to contact British, not try and contact Thai police.

If he needs to get away from all the attention, I hear that Vanatu is having a great sale on passports.