14C! Man drains bottle of "lao khao", starts a fire to keep warm, then falls in it and burns to death

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Fell into the fire drunk

 

A mother in the north east of Thailand told Daily News how she found the body of her dead son.

 

Phiphat, 66, went to visit her son Suban, 49, in the shack in a sugar cane field where he also tended 10 goats. He was single and lived alone.

 

She found her son severely burned in a fire.

 

Beside his body was an empty bottle of lao khao, white spirits.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

She believed he'd had a seizure and fallen in the fire and was unable to help himself.

 

When Huay Luang police arrived at the scene in Chiang Pin sub-district of Udon Thani, the victim had already been dead 8-10 hours.

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Tragically there were bits of burnt clothing scattered about and signs in the earth that the deceased had struggled prior to death. 

 

Police determined that with temperatures in the area down to 14C the victim had consumed alcohol, started a fire then inadvertently fallen in or slept too close.

 

That and/or his medical history with an underlying condition spoke to an accidental death and relatives agreed

 

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[PJ71]

Couldn't make this up.

[Jake72]

Tragic, that's a terrible way to go, rip.

 

When I woke up this morning around 6am it was 16C outside.

 

[wombat]

RIP bloke.

[roo860]

1 hour ago, Jake72 said:

Tragic, that's a terrible way to go, rip.

 

When I woke up this morning around 6am it was 16C outside.

 

Hope you had your onesy on.

Edited December 14, 2022 by roo860

[Asquith Production]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Police determined that with temperatures in the area down to 14C the victim had consumed alcohol, started a fire then inadvertently fallen in or slept too close.

So they have decided on this story of how he died even though earlier in the report it said his clothing was scottered and signs of a struggle in the ground and the family eager to agree. That would be an open verdict in any other country 

[Andycoops]

Has been happening every year I've been up here in Isaan.

They drink because they think it will keep them warm but pass out without proper clothing and shelter this time of year and most freeze to death.

[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, Jake72 said:

Tragic, that's a terrible way to go, rip.

 

When I woke up this morning around 6am it was 16C outside.

 

A few years ago I needed to go to the local hospital three times a day for a week, and at 6am it was 8 degrees. It was only then I realised that, in tropical Thailand, the pickup had no heating.

 

Also at that time, as it got light the lake outside the hospital began 'steaming', and all the staff ran out to see and photograph it. They'd never seen something like that before.

[BangkokReady]

3 hours ago, Asquith Production said:

So they have decided on this story of how he died even though earlier in the report it said his clothing was scottered and signs of a struggle in the ground and the family eager to agree. That would be an open verdict in any other country 

Depends on what the struggle looked like.  If it looked like he kicked about a bit but wasn't able to get out of the fire, that's different to "signs of a struggle", which generally means evidence of people fighting.

 

I would hope they don't mean that there are two sets of footprints and it looks like someone pushed and held him in the fire.  But, TiT...

[RichardColeman]

9 hours ago, Jake72 said:

Tragic, that's a terrible way to go, rip.

NO, it's an idiotic and stupid way to go !

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, Jake72 said:

Tragic, that's a terrible way to go, rip.

 

When I woke up this morning around 6am it was 16C outside.

 

A toasty 24C where I am..