3AM BALCONY PLUNGE Brazilian DJ Ricardo Vilela fighting for his life after falling off third floor balcony at Bangkok airport ‘wearing only swimming trunks’

[DJ54]

Hope he recovers quickly. With only swim trunks no shirt Security would have questioned him. 

 

Maybe be seeing someone off..... will have to see how it pans out. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

From the OP photo, it looks like if he had fallen a few more feet to one side, he would have landed on and crashed thru the Tourism Authority of Thailand booth...   And that would have made the headline for sure!!!

[lvr181]

Injured, with possibility of death CAUSED by lack of commonsense. ????

[how241]

5 hours ago, Juan B Tong said:

Selfie gone wrong.

Sounds about right...Maybe very drunk too. Soon we will know more.

[Caine]

5 hours ago, Rawnthai said:

I was talking to a man who’s career was investigating accidental deaths. He told me that in Thailand most balconies are 10-12 inches lower than the western worlds average. We, westerners, lean on rails without too much thought, ie. instinctively. We expect a certain height, but end up increasing  our chances of falling over. Over average tallness and of course drunkenness increase the chances of ‘flopping’ over.  

How does that explain the swimming trunks. Obviously out of his brains on something. And probably not beer.

[Shaunduhpostman]

"It's not the first time someone has plunged from a balcony at the airport."

 

Some of the many Thailand hotel/apartment plunges are no doubt because of the low walls. I wonder if that is the case here, somehow I don't think so, but still, may simply have been misjudging the height of the wall and then over ya go. You don;t have to be drunk or otherwise high either, just being tired or distracted will do it. I fell off a narrow cliffside walkway in Indonesia once, I simply started thinking about something for a moment instead of looking where i was putting my feet and fell 4 feet. Luckily I landed on feet, on relatively flat smooth concrete, but was wearing flip flops and utterly creamed my left foot. Not drunk, not high just a bit tired and my concentration had flagged for a second.  Had I landed on my head I could have been in intensive care like this guy.

[CharlieH]

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Why people feel that an event such as this is a cue for a sarcastic or poor attempt at humor comment, is unbelievable. Please refrain from posting in that way and move on !

 

[Blackheart1916]

On 10/20/2018 at 2:18 PM, alex8912 said:

Wow. Imagine an insensitive post on this topic must have been OTT. Just chatted with 3 Brazilians aged 22 to 38 and no one know him.  FN 

Well, Brazil is a pretty big place.