Chinese visitor laden with facemasks dies in hotel fall

By The Nation

 

 

A Chinese man who fell to his death from the sixth floor of a Bangkok hotel on Friday (March 13) was allegedly in possession of a large quantity of protective facemasks.

 

Police found the 39-year-old dead on the ground outside the hotel in Huai Khwang district. The window of his room above was broken.

 

Working with the Department of Disease Control, officers learned that the victim came from Fujian, which is among cities battling a Covid-19 outbreak, and arrived in Chiang Rai on March 5.

 

He checked into the Bangkok hotel on Thursday.

 

A medical team was requested from Ramathibodi Hospital to collect the body but, lacking the necessary protective equipment in case the deceased was contagious, the procedure had to be delayed.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30384026

 

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This got weirder and weirder the further I read. 

some Masked Avenger got to him first?

5 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

A Chinese man who fell to his death from the sixth floor of a Bangkok hotel on Friday (March 13) was allegedly in possession of a large quantity of protective facemasks.

The face masks didn't do him any good.

 

That's what happens when masks become the new gold ????

2 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

The face masks didn't do him any good.

 

they wouldn't have cushioned the sudden stop very well...

1 minute ago, kotsak said:

That's what happens when masks become the new gold ????

the new Midas Touch

5 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

The face masks didn't do him any good.

 

They could’ve overbalanced him if he was wearing too many...

cant  stop laughing

another loose end tied up on the mask scandal.

I think he was involved in a struggle with another person regarding the resale of face masks in China and he got 'pushed' outside the window. Note that the window was broken.

 

There is a huge demand for face masks in China now.

5 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

another loose end tied up on the mask scandal.

... or tripped on a loose end?

10 minutes ago, Chazar said:

cant  stop laughing

better be careful! you might become 'beside yourself, and whoops...

Big question is, if he was from Fujan, why was he allowed into Thailand on March 5th?

23 minutes ago, EricTh said:

 

There is a huge demand for face masks in China now.

No there isn't.

10 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Big question is, if he was from Fujan, why was he allowed into Thailand on March 5th?

Why wouldn't he be? Restrictions didn't start until this week, and Fujian wasn't a high risk area.

Sad to read of anyone's unnecessary death.

That said, is there anything more bone stupid than fighting - and perhaps killing - over face masks that do absolutely nothing to protect the wearer?

Still, as they say, 'there ain't no cure for stupid'.

sound like a business deal gone wrong

 

money No 1

 

RIP

38 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

Big question is, if he was from Fujan, why was he allowed into Thailand on March 5th?

gotta  sell those facemasks to someone and he was the perfect  buyer

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

A medical team was requested from Ramathibodi Hospital to collect the body but, lacking the necessary protective equipment in case the deceased was contagious, the procedure had to be delayed.

 

That's not a good sign, considering that Ramathibodi is one of the main govt. hospitals in BKK, and they aren't well enough equipped to be able to collect ONE potential CV exposed body???

 

Meanwhile, on the broader subject -- another story re Chinese, CV masks and Thailand.  That seems to be a recurring, underworld deals theme here lately.  And probably helps explain why there's effectively NO masks to be found in local stores for Thai citizens (or others) to purchase.

 

 

 

Edited March 13, 20206 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

And more:

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2020/03/13/lawyer-implicates-more-politicians-in-mask-hoarding-ring/

 

Quote

 

BANGKOK — A lawyer on Thursday said a group of politicians was involved in a conspiracy that led to scarcity of face masks in Thailand and then sold them at overpriced fees for profits.
 

Atchariya Ruangrattanapong, the combative chairman of the Help Crime Victim Club, submitted his allegations in a letter to deputy police commissioner Gen. Suwat Chaengyodsuk and urged him to prosecute the politicians, whom he refused to name to the media.
 

Atchariya would only say two of them were a “female politician,” and an advisor to a Cabinet member. The lawyer said the group was colluding with 14 private companies to hoard masks from the market, resulting in a shortage, only to sell them later.

 

 

What better way to silence someone when there is 'apparently' and investigation going on.  Too risky to let him live to sing like a birdy about who he bought the masks from.

57 minutes ago, Chazar said:

gotta  sell those facemasks to someone and he was the perfect  buyer

Was he a buyer or a seller?

As I understand it, China has enough masks and has lifted the ban on exporting them.

On the other hand, Thailand has a shortage - and masks are being sold here at multiple times their former cost.

 

And with his dying breath he said "The face masks. They do nothing".

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Working with the Department of Disease Control, officers learned that the victim came from Fujian, which is among cities battling a Covid-19 outbreak

 

3 hours ago, Traubert said:

Why wouldn't he be? Restrictions didn't start until this week, and Fujian wasn't a high risk area.

The OP disagrees with you.

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

The face masks didn't do him any good.

 

Would be interesting to get the Thai-Chinese Health Minister's take on this!

5 hours ago, bluesofa said:

The face masks didn't do him any good.

 

Yeah he had the good heavy ones not the paper ones.

3 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

And with his dying breath he said "The face masks. They do nothing".

You might think it is funny but not nice at all a man died.

5 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

You might think it is funny but not nice at all a man died.

Karma is not funny. ☹️

6 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

You might think it is funny but not nice at all a man died.

My glass eye is shedding a tear! ????