Two men fall into deep well in Pattaya after cover breaks, one killed

[webfact]

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By Tanakorn Panyadee

Pattaya — Two Thai men fell into an extremely deep well after its cover, on which they were sitting and chatting, broke, killing one 47-year-old man while the other 60-year-old man miraculously survived.

Nongprue Police and Sawang Boriboon Thammasatan emergency responders rushed to a residence on Soi 1 in the Nong Pla Lai subdistrict of Banglamung today, August 20th, to rescue two men who had fallen into a well.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/08/20/two-men-fall-into-deep-well-in-pattaya-after-cover-breaks-one-killed/

 

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[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

killing one 47-year-old man while the other 60-year-old man miraculously survived.

Probably as he landed on the other one !

[Gecko123]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Probably as he landed on the other one !

Full article says younger guy managed to grab hold of a pipe and call for help.

[simon43]

Anyone who has lived in Thailand for more than a few months knows never to walk on drain covers, manholes, in fact any type of cover or lid for a well or hole or roadworks etc.

 

The fact that they were Thai means (I assume), that they had more than a few months of living in Thailand to be aware of the risks.

 

So I guess one can conclude "you can't fix stupid".  Did they sleep on railway lines as well?

[Gecko123]

29 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Before you rush to label people who died stupid, ( mr. compassionate) how do you know it was it a wooden cover? they probably set atop this cover many times before without anything happening, and mind you, almost every old style house in Thailand has it's well or use to before connecting to the mail water supply, so should they have been more careful, sure, but to bad mouth a tragic accident just to show how smart you are?...

Those concrete septic tank and well covers can really vary in thickness. It's a trade off between bearing weight versus making the lid too unwieldy to open when needed.

 

If these guys were just sitting on the edge of the lid with their legs hanging over the ground and they tipped backwards into the well when the lid suddenly cracked under their combined weight, that's not something that most people would necessarily anticipate happening.

 

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, simon43 said:

So I guess one can conclude "you can't fix stupid".  Did they sleep on railway lines as well?

Yes my thought too..... hard to figure why they do things like this. 

[Rimmer]

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[The Theory]

Chatting and smoking weed ????

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Two Thai men fell into an extremely deep well after its cover, on which they were sitting and chatting, broke

We all make choices in life... some work out for the best, some don't.

[mikebell]

I wonder when the Health & Safety Movement will hit Thailand?

[Liverpool Lou]

On 8/22/2022 at 7:15 AM, Gecko123 said:

Full article says younger guy managed to grab hold of a pipe and call for help.

Older man, the younger one died.

[swerve]

Note to self.  Don't sit on well covers.

[Damrongsak]

Back in 1980, I went into an outhouse at the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Loei.  The cement floor broke and I landed on my rear end with my legs dangling in the hole. Fortunately  it wasn't full.  The floor was some bamboo strips with a few cm of cement slathered on top.