2 hours ago, petermik said:

Koh Tao and dead bodies......but I,m sure it will be proved to be just coincidence

 

RIP to the deceased

Bunch of drunk ppl swimming in dangerous waters alone, what could go wrong.

3 minutes ago, ReMarKable said:

I  At one time it was penal colony.

That will be why there are so many "dicks" there!

Oh hell, my dyslexia strikes again.

RIP Koh Tao!

It certainly works-up to its reputation "The Island of Death"...
Can't imagine why people still go there, nor can't understand why the island is not shut down by the authorities...

2 hours ago, petermik said:

Koh Tao and dead bodies......but I,m sure it will be proved to be just coincidence

 

RIP to the deceased

Go tai!

Plenty of posts because it is Kho Tao. Not one post on the body of a foreigner found floating off Phuket today.

Well, there goes the tourism industry from Moldova to KT...

 

How will KT ever survive???  

 

Maybe the TAT can start handing out little cards to the tourists that arrive on the island... Something like... "Please don't die HERE!"

 

13 minutes ago, irishken said:

Of course they had to be foreign pharmaceutical drugs as everyone knows to buy the more expensive ones from your own country before coming to Thailand where they are cheaper.  

Well - that's not correct....

 

Moldova is no 55 of the poorest countries in the world and Thailand no 117 so we can assume that it was cheaper in Moldova...

 

https://www.atlasandboots.com/poorest-countries-in-the-world-ranked/

6 minutes ago, kcpattaya said:

It certainly works-up to its reputation "The Island of Death"...
Can't imagine why people still go there, nor can't understand why the island is not shut down by the authorities...

Probably because of the money from massive amounts of tourists that go there every year and survive. Also lack of evidence, you know, not rumours and speculation. Also, useless police force on that island. Thailand is not known for its ability to control it's police forces.

 

54 minutes ago, marko kok prong said:

Given the places reputation i am surprised any one goes there at all.if you say anything against this place the Farang who have interest their start to Condemn you gor speaking out, Scumbags

33 minutes ago, Mitker said:

My first thought: finally they decided to adopt a serious approach to this endless list of dead bodies found on KT by having the job done "better" in BKK

 

2nd thought: it looks like they waited until a possibly genuine suicide took place in order to organize a large, publicized show in order to try to whitewash past botched investigations

(if the report of clothes, shoes, ID and phone being found together at the beach - with no obvious signs of foul play - is correct, we may have the first credible suicide case on this island)

Your 2nd thought was what I thought immediately. All for show when this seems obvious that drowning was the cause here.

Just like Mr Millar who was found floating in a swimming pool - he obviously drowned regardless of the battering he got that was never considered relevant 

 

RIP

6 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

Plenty of posts because it is Kho Tao. Not one post on the body of a foreigner found floating off Phuket today.

not a good enough story

Have they arrested the editors of media organizations that first reported the death for disparaging the reputation of Koh Tao and Thailand?

29 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Koh Tao Tourist’s Drowning Ruled As Accident

Not unexpected -

but anyway I believe that even on Koh Tao people might dy by accident - sometimes

Quick, better get Big Joke back down there to sort it, later to be advised, it was all a misunderstanding by the media, the security guard spotted the items on a beach in Phuket, not Koh Tao, but the body floated all the way down to this beautiful island.

12 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Quick, better get Big Joke back down there to sort it, later to be advised, it was all a misunderstanding by the media, the security guard spotted the items on a beach in Phuket, not Koh Tao, but the body floated all the way down to this beautiful island.

 

He's in Immigration now, no longer in Tourist Police.

 

So he probably wouldn't be involved here, unless he was to come along and want to charge the dead Moldovan guy posthumously with overstaying his visa!!!!

5 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

this is the part (finding his possessions on the beach undisturbed for hours late at night) I find unbelievable.

 

RIP.

Why?  I find Thailand to be full of honest people personally.  Does not at all seem weird to me.  

 

1 hour ago, irishken said:

Of course they had to be foreign pharmaceutical drugs as everyone knows to buy the more expensive ones from your own country before coming to Thailand where they are cheaper.  

so could'nt possibly be prescription drugs then?
the report said he suffered from 'wheezing....maybe asthma or similar?

31 minutes ago, sweatalot said:

Not unexpected -

but anyway I believe that even on Koh Tao people might dy by accident - sometimes

People drown everyday in the ocean around the world. Many go unreported.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Koh Tao Tourist’s Drowning Ruled As Accident

That's a surprise.

Hopefully there will be no interference by "other stakeholders" in this investigation. And Thai people seem to be surprised when the words "Death Island" get mentioned....!

1 hour ago, asiamaster said:

Yes probably accidental drowning and not suicide or foul-play.  I used to be a good swimmer but a few years ago I almost drowned when swimming from a boat to the shore which despite my chronic bronchitis looked doable. But there were some unexpected strong currents... RIP

 

RIP currents......

The island is certainly living up to its reputation!

6 hours ago, webfact said:

evidence gathering including the studying of CCTV on Koh Tao

????

1 hour ago, Megasin1 said:

Moldovia, I always thought that was a made up place that they used in the Princess Diaries and they have an embassy too, remarkable, I bet they verify peoples income, it's about time they remodelled Koh Tao into the shape of a skull and surrounded it with an impenetrable mist. If big joke consults his tidal maps, soothsayers and bar owners club of Koh Tao I am sure he will be able to solve this riddle with the speed of a thousand gazelles. In the meantime whilst we await the crime fighting skills of the caped crusader to right all the wrongs in the world I will just carry on blissfully ignoring where it is located and hope that I never get ship wrecked there.

I think you may be confusing a country with a soap opera...

Moldavia was the site of the infamous massacre at the wedding in Dynasty...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(1981_TV_series)#"Moldavian_Massacre"

 

As for getting shipwrecked in Moldova, best of luck there - it's landlocked... ????

Clearly the body of the man was lying - there's nothing untowards going on on Kho Tao. 

4 minutes ago, mrfill said:

I think you may be confusing a country with a soap opera...

Moldavia was the site of the infamous massacre at the wedding in Dynasty...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_(1981_TV_series)#"Moldavian_Massacre"

 

As for getting shipwrecked in Moldova, best of luck there - it's landlocked... ????

Megasin1 was talking about Koh Tao...not Moldova

1 hour ago, alanrchase said:

Plenty of posts because it is Kho Tao. Not one post on the body of a foreigner found floating off Phuket today.

Probably because this article is highlighted at the top to make it stand out.  But the body found in Phuket is far more suspicious.  From the article - "The body was retrieved from the water and brought to the beach. Bruise wounds were found on the man’s neck and blood was also coming out of his ears. His body was taken to Thalang Hospital for further examination to find the cause of death."

I was lucky I went to the island in 2004 when it was nice and well kind of safe 

 Now its a lawless island and as usual blame the farang and protect the criminals