Mysterious deaths in Isaan village: Don't blame ogres and ghosts, blame the fags and booze, say experts

[webfact]

Mysterious deaths in Isaan village: Don't blame ogres and ghosts, blame the fags and booze, say experts

 

Pictures (2) Workpoint News

 

Expert medical staff in Thailand's north east have confirmed that a spate of unexplained deaths in a village in Kalasin are not the work of an angry group of ogres or ghosts of evil widows. 

 

Villagers in Ban Phu Hang had started taking extraordinary precautions after five people died in a few weeks. 

 

Men were particularly afraid of the widow ghost or Phee Mae Mai - they had started painting their fingernails to trick the evil spirit and their womenfolk had put out clothes and signage to say: No Men Live Here. 

 

And everybody thought the ogres - Phee Pop - were going to strike again,so it was home to bed early every night. The only sounds that could be heard were those of barking dogs - themselves believed to be portents of doom. 

 

 

Now doctors have gone into the village to say there is a perfectly rational explanation. 

 

Dr Pornphat Phunaklom the director from nearby Nong Kung Sri Hospital has blamed a whole host of diseases that exist under the umbrella of NCDs - non-communicable diseases or diseases that are not transmitted from one person to another.

 

According to the WHO these account for 71% of all deaths worldwide. They include cardio vascular problems, cancer, respiratory diseases, diabetes and high blood pressure. 

 

Dr Pornphat dismissed the villagers suggestions about ghosts and ogres during a crisis meeting yesterday.

 

The expert doctor blamed far more earthly problems like diet, alcohol and cigarettes and even sleeping too late.

 

People should watch what they eat he said especially if they were ingesting too much sugar, salt or fat. 

 

Thaivisa notes that in earlier reports the ogres were blamed for one of the deaths that was a 16 year old girl who died in a motorcycle collision. The apparent "mystery" of this death was not addressed in the Workpoint News story.

 

Source: Workpoint News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-10-04

[SammyT]

You think that's crazy - there's a tonnes of westerners in Chiang Mai who believe in some guy rising from the dead 2000 or so years ago, and another guy who built a massive boat and managed to get two of every animal on it as well...

[NCC1701A]

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

blame the fags

I thought we were beyond this type of non PC talk.

[Lupatria]

15 hours ago, webfact said:

The expert doctor blamed far more earthly problems like diet, alcohol and cigarettes and even sleeping too late.

That's a classic oxymoron. How can people die from sleeping to late if they refuse to ever wake up?

[Darcula]

15 hours ago, webfact said:

No Men Live Here. 

 

That should work when an ogre shows up in his black pick-up truck with a sticker that says "this car is red".

 

[RichardColeman]

16 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that in earlier reports the ogres were blamed for one of the deaths that was a 16 year old girl who died in a motorcycle collision. The apparent "mystery" of this death was not addressed in the Workpoint News story.

Its called every day Thai road madness death

[inThailand]

No men live here signs fool the ghosts? 

 

Did the ghosts attend the same schools?

[Vacuum]

Pla Ra is a killer!

[Cadbury]

Don't they realise there is a quick and proven cure to keep these demons away. Kissing frogs, or better still toads, is a sure fire method to keep the bogeymen away.

[SammyT]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that in earlier reports the ogres were blamed for one of the deaths that was a 16 year old girl who died in a motorcycle collision. The apparent "mystery" of this death was not addressed in the Workpoint News story.

Its called every day Thai road madness death

I chuckled at this, but about 6 years ago in New Zealand, the local Maori tribe blamed a spate of road deaths on a "Taniwha" (mythical swamp monster akin to an angry version of the loch ness monster) while blatantly ignoring that most of them were as a result of either drugs, alcohol, speed or not wearing a seatbelt...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/8565102/Swamp-monster-threatens-Auckland-railway-project.html

[klauskunkel]

Hey now, these villagers have thoroughly contemplated these incidents and concluded that it is the result of monsters and ghosts.

It is what it is. 

Now back to lao khao and plaa raa.

[barefootbangkok]

Amazing Thailand!

[Marley01]

On 10/4/2018 at 3:48 PM, NCC1701A said:

I thought we were beyond this type of non PC talk.

It used to be OK to ask someone if you could bum a fag.

[SammyT]

1 minute ago, Marley01 said:

It used to be OK to ask someone if you could bum a fag.

Yeah, Kevin Spacey and the whole #metoo movement really put a stop to being able to be so forward...

[hotchilli]

On 10/4/2018 at 3:20 PM, webfact said:

People should watch what they eat he said especially if they were ingesting too much sugar, salt or fat. 

That is the Thai diet !!!

[oldlakey]

14 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Its called every day Thai road madness death

As I said in the first thread, a bit of road sense might just have saved her