Pattaya man retries suicide leap after police let him go after first try

[Rimmer]

Pattaya man retries suicide leap after police let him go after first try

 

PATTAYA:--Hours after being talked down from a highway overpass from which he wanted to jump, a suicidal man returned and made the leap.

 

Boontieng Saokaew, 45, didn’t die in the Nov. 20 jump from the pedestrian crossing over Sukhumvit Road near Central Road. A 70-year-old foreign expat grabbed him at the last moment and slowed his fall into a grassy area.

 

Boontieng suffered bruises in the fall and was sent to Banglamung Hospital where he also can receive mental care as well.

 

The man, driven to suicide by a disfiguring skin condition that has left him jobless and ostracized in society, was stopped from jumping that morning by Banglamung police officers who talked him down from the overpass.

 

See more: https://www.pattayamail.com/news/pattaya-man-retries-suicide-leap-after-police-let-him-go-after-first-try-277214

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-11-24--

[mikebell]

2 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

police let him go after first try

No sense in holding him - jobless = no money to abstract.

[metisdead]

A troll post trolling about a work permit has been removed. 

[mok199]

Tenacious <deleted> .

[Jingthing]

If at first you don't succeed, suicide suicide again.

 

So the obvious question -- is there no place for Thais to be detained and observed after the FIRST try?

Edited November 24, 2019 by Jingthing

[jacko45k]

Didn't I read about this already, the guy who fell to the grass leaving behind a torn shirt collar in the hands of a farang? He did it again? Third attempt, the mental care he received seems lacking.  

[scubascuba3]

I think people should be allowed to commit suicide, in fact provide a facility to do it. Do gooders aren't helping. So now this guy has to continue his miserable painful life and he will be ignored again after the press fuss dies down

[Daffy D]

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

I think people should be allowed to commit suicide, in fact provide a facility to do it. Do gooders aren't helping. So now this guy has to continue his miserable painful life and he will be ignored again after the press fuss dies down

I agree. The decision to commit suicide could not have been easy, so why stop him.

 

How about any "hero" that "saves" a potential jumper should then be responsible for that persons life.

In this case the "hero" should now look after and care for the guy he saved. Pay his medical bills, take him into his house and introduce him to all his friends so he feels wanted and an appreciated member of society.

[neeray]

The responses so far, just full of compassion!

[Enoon]

 

36 minutes ago, Daffy D said:

I agree. The decision to commit suicide could not have been easy, so why stop him.

 

 

 

He was not going to die, falling from that height.

 

Not a suicide attempt, a typical "cry for help" incident.

 

The unhappy man does not have an internal, emotional, dysfunction.

 

He's unhappy because he has been rejected ("a disfiguring skin condition that has left him jobless and ostracized in society") by his fellow "caring, compassionate, Buddhist" Thais.

 

People who are so "none of the above" that:

  "rather than commit him to a psychological ward for his own protection, they let him go".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[briansbiology]

15 hours ago, Jingthing said:

If at first you don't succeed, suicide suicide again.

 

So the obvious question -- is there no place for Thais to be detained and observed after the FIRST try?

Doesn't always work i.e suicide watch...ask Jeffrey Epstein

[Dumbastheycome]

1 hour ago, neeray said:

The responses so far, just full of compassion!

Remarkable innit !

[jacko45k]

21 hours ago, Enoon said:

He was not going to die, falling from that height.

Well if he had aimed for the middle of the road in front of a cement truck he might. Being over the grass verge suggests you are correct. 

[scubascuba3]

Maybe some of the guys on here can go and see the guy and help him, maybe money for a while. Keyboard warrioring won't help

[Isaanbiker]

A 70-year-old foreign expat grabbed him at the last moment and slowed his fall into a grassy area.

 

No photo of the foreign hero?

[BritManToo]

If I were serious, I'd try somewhere a little higher.

Unless a car ran you down after the jump, the worst injury from there would likely be broken ankles.

Edited November 26, 2019 by BritManToo