Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath pointed out that many Thai people believe that consuming alcohol will stave off the cold.

 

Doctors disagree and say it is just bad for your health and causes trouble when it comes to DUI.

 

In fact booze can make matters worse in the cold and cause seizures.

 

Their comments came at the end of a report about a man called Chaiyo, 43, who was found dead at the foot of the steps leading to a raised platform in his field in Tha Sala sub-district of Khon Kaen, NE Thailand.

 

It was estimated he'd been dead for 4-6 hours.

 

There were no signs of a struggle.

 

Near the body was a 20 baht note and some coins as well as an empty bottle of 40 degree spirit and two empty tonic drink bottles.

 

The owner of the adjacent cassava field said that he had been alerted to what happened by his neighbor's dog that followed him everywhere.

 

He was barking continually as if to alert him to something. 

 

He found Chaiyo face down and he was already dead. He called the phu yai ban and the victim's wife.

 

The wife told the police who arrived at the scene that her husband had a great temperament. He loved a drink but never caused anyone any trouble. 

 

She thought he had gone to buy some alcohol in the morning as it was cold.

 

She reckoned he fell down the stairs and knocked himself out and the cold killed him. 

 

ASEAN NOW notes that for the rest of this week temperature forecasts for Khon Kaen show a drop with highs around mid to late 20s and lows of 11 to 15 degrees. 

 

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Such incredible wisdom. Alcohol is bad for you. Alcohol does not help with the cold weather. Such genius concepts. Where do they find such experts, who are able to provide such sage advice? 

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thai Rath pointed out that many Thai people believe that consuming alcohol will stave off the cold.

 

Doctors disagree and say it is just bad for your health and causes trouble when it comes to DUI.

Both the sentences above creates a world of horrific thoughts.

First we have the common knowledge and education of the general Thai person?

Second, the doctors that disagree are the ones who are supposed to help and treat us?

and so on............

 

 

How do these Einsteins account for the whole of the further northern and southern hemispheres not dying out on en masse every winter?

 

 

Give them guys the Nobel Prize will you, the cemeteries are full of those who could use this 'revelation'...

Could have passed away from anything.  Not because of the alcohol.  He might have just had an underlying health condition. 

3 hours ago, MRToMRT said:

 

 

How do these Einsteins account for the whole of the further northern and southern hemispheres not dying out on en masse every winter?

 

 

"ASEAN NOW notes that for the rest of this week temperature forecasts for Khon Kaen show a drop with highs around mid to late 20s and lows of 11 to 15 degrees. " 

 

you mean Hypothermia?   The average Finn would die from heatstroke in 11 degrees......

Maybe it was the quantity of alcohol that ended his life... rather than just a dram to keep the frost off.

A good quality slug of rum would have warmed the poor man up. My father passed out at night in the snow in Scotland after a big night of partying with copious amounts of scotch and they didn't find him for hours. His survival was attributed to the amount that he had imbibed. Maybe it was a tall tale!