Brit Dies From Scorpion Sting

[macb]

Well this was in my email from the BBC News Alerts for Asia :

So check your shoes and watch where you walk :

If you cant read it when expanded here is the News link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/6287644.stm

Edited July 12, 2007 by macb

[colino]

thanks

[tijnebijn]

My best codolences for his family.

In a different post I read this man was badly hurt, now I read that he past away .

I wonder actually what kind of scorpion it was . I have been bitten twice and it did hurt similar like a waspish insect .

Or this man had unknowingly been allergic or his wound was infected more dangerously .

I wonder how many different kind of scorpions there are or if they are lethal .

Sorry to mention this but I think this information can be helpful to many members.

And even more what to be more careful about .

[ratcatcher]

"They moved to her home village but the marriage faltered and she left him. Mr Pike said her relatives then forced him out of the home he had built to live in a shack in the jungle."

BBC News

The sad part is he came to Thailand, met a Thai "woman" (how old ?) built a house, then she left him and her nice family kicked him out into the jungle.

How long had he known her?

A sad way to end one's life I feel. She probably cleaned him out.

A rather pathetic story. (Tall tale?)

Edited July 12, 2007 by ratcatcher

[DAS]

Basic rule with scorpions, the larger the pinchers, the less poisonous the sting. The large black ones found here are only mildly poisonious. They will give you one helluva pinch though. Very non-agressive, I let them crawl over my arms to freak my wife out. The boys think they're cool. My first Thai wife was like this, totally immoral and without any ethics. Where I grew up you trusted your wife totally, because there were no such animals. So while I trusted her, she relieved me of about 15 million, house, etc. Fortunally I met a young lady at a Thai friends house and we've been married for about eleven years with two great kids and I'm quite happy. I really feel sorry for this guy and I know this kind of stuff happens here, because I couldn't get my Wifes family out of my house either!

[qwertz]

Ratcatcher and DAS, I don't think it's a tall tale but rather a common one.

I've seen a lot of these sad guys over there and was actually going to post one glaring example in my "Tell us a story" thread, which didn't run so well.

These little family mafias (sorry all you happily married guys out there) do exist and they prey on sad sacks.

I lived in the sticks there once, was married to an Asian and I watched these poor buggers being paraded round as the latest mark.

They really don't know what's going on.

Once again, apologies to the many guys who've struck lucky there for mentioning this but there's also another side to life in paradise.

BTW, I'm not one of the usual bitter betrayed guys who post here, I was happily married to a good woman.

[uptou]

scorpion & parasite?tragic.presuming he must have had an allergic reaction to the sting,or got an infection?

why ever buy property in thailand?things can turn sour so quickly with people.

[rainman]

Why would he go live "in the jungle" after she kicked him out? Why not back to Bangkok or back to the UK? Everyone knows there are snakes, spiders and scorpions in the jungle ...

[qwertz]

Scorpion stings are nothing compared to the other stings going on there.

[Maestro]

Already discussed here.

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Maestro