Slippery cliff proves fatal for foreign tourist

[Matzzon]

20 hours ago, keith101 said:

Maybe it is just me but this sounds very suspicious to me .

Yes it´s just you, and a few more looking at the likes. ???? What is suspicious? He and his friends are some of the people that entered Thailand on a tourist visa when that was possible, have been riding out the pandemic in Thailand. As he entered with a tourist visa, he is still seen as being on amnesty on the same.
 

16 hours ago, mr_lob said:

Foreign tourist????

Yep, not strange at all. Just read above. They have been writing a lot about such situations in the news lately. ????

[herfiehandbag]

20 hours ago, Matzzon said:

90 minutes for the medical team to arrive. Makes one wonder if it had been possible to save the man with a quick response. However, that might be impossible depending on how hard it is to come to the place.

It might well be that it took quite some time to raise the alarm - language, remoteness of the accident etc - and then time to assemble the rescue squad ( who would all be volunteers) from the nearest small town, and get them to the scene.

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

The tourists told the park officials that Soipov had tried to take a picture from a spot 15 metres above ground level despite a warning sign in the area about its slippery surface and he eventually fell from the cliff.

That all illusive selfie... 

[Iron Tongue]

On 9/7/2020 at 4:37 PM, hotchilli said:

That all illusive selfie... 

That's probably exactly what happened.

 

Here in the US, tourists are regularly scraped from the bottom of the Grand Canyon because they routinely ignore all posted warnings in order to get that "killer" selfie.

[hotchilli]

2 minutes ago, Iron Tongue said:

That's probably exactly what happened.

 

Here in the US, tourists are regularly scraped from the bottom of the Grand Canyon because they routinely ignore all posted warnings in order to get that "killer" selfie.

The phone maybe a "smart-one' but the user is often not!