Shocking treatment: Thai-American couple demands justice after electric shock in Chon Buri hotel jacuzzi

[Smokey and the Bandit]

So the couple received an electric shock? Did the hotel get a qualified electrician to investigate and find any faulty wiring or whatever? If not it could happen again?

[Emdog]

Just now, Smokey and the Bandit said:

So the couple received an electric shock? Did the hotel get a qualified electrician to investigate and find any faulty wiring or whatever? If not it could happen again?

where can they get a "qualified electrician"? Are any licensed & tested here? I've never heard of nor seen one

[VocalNeal]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

After 20 minutes in the pool, they all felt numb all over their bodies

They were probably numb from the neck up before they even went near the Jacuzzi????

[chilli42]

“…felt numb all over their bodies and found it difficult to move their legs and arms.”  
Indeed, I have experienced these same symptoms on occasion.  It’s quite unnerving. I always thought it was the magic mushrooms now I can know it was the jacuzzi that caused it.   Where is my lawyer!

[1happykamper]

To be not dead would be compensation enough! They were very lucky 

[BestB]

Without any injury or medical report of injuries 100 000 sounds more than fair to me.

 

yes small money if you live in US but hardly small money for Thailand 

[chickenslegs]

35 minutes ago, simon43 said:

As an electronics engineer, I'm intrigued to know how the hospital was able to identify a 5 second electric shock!  Electric shock really is only identifiable by skin burns etc from a large energy shock, in which they would be well and truly dead!

Might an ECG show evidence of an electric shock?

[Jaggg88]

4 hours ago, steven100 said:

4 hours ago, Deserted said:

That is just shocking.

come on ... you can do better than that '

Watt??

[spidermike007]

A rather shocking misuse of the term electrocution. They experienced an electric shock. If they had been electrocuted, the surviving family members would be making a claim for their deaths. Correct?

 

The word electrocute was coined as a blend of electro- and execute to refer, obviously enough, to execution by administration of electricity. During the War of Currents in the late 1880s, Thomas Edison tried to scare people into thinking that his opponent George Westinghouse's alternating current was unsafe and that his own method, direct current, was therefore better. Edison gave public demonstrations in which he killed animals, including a circus elephant named Topsy, which had killed three men, with alternating current. (Though these demonstrations may have garnered Edison some attention, they didn't work; today we use alternating current for power transmission.)

 

Most of these accidents occur due to defective or poorly maintained equipment that release electric currents into the water. These currents can enter your body and cause an electric shock. Common sources of electrical shocks in pools and Jacuzzis include:

Faulty underwater lights

Defective pumps and filters

Old wiring or wiring that’s not up to code

Improperly grounded equipment

Improperly grounded cables

Metal parts not being bonded to each other.

 

https://www.losangelespersonalinjurylawyers.co/hot-tub-jacuzzi-swimming-pool-electrocution-attorney/

[G Rex]

6 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

Might an ECG show evidence of an electric shock?

Only if the cardiac muscle was damaged by the electric shock 

[sammieuk1]

The bad news is the electric bills in the post ????

[Mywayboy]

4 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Hardly luxury at 3364 Baht per night. But that's  no excuse for not giving proper compensation. Giving 100000 is an insult in this case.

1 million thb more reasonable 

[Taboo2]

Good luck with that in this country.

[Jonathan Swift]

Did they die? Then they weren’t electrocuted. Electro-execute. Electrocute. To kill by electric shock. Were they electrically shocked? Yes. Not electrocuted. Does the writer have a firm grasp of English? Nope.

[neeray]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

"as she and her family almost died"

How do you "almost die"? It would seem to me that you die, or you don't.

[MrJ2U]

5 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

100000 is an insult in this case

For Thailand that's good.

 

Unfortunately in Thailand compensation is low to zero for many accidents.

 

Accountability is almost non-existent.

 

 

[Xonax]

"Hotel staff took them to the hospital, where the doctor told them they had received a five-second electric shock. "

Impressing how doctors in Thailand can make a precise diagnose of exactly 5 seconds electric chock, without mentioning how many Volts and Ampere were applied. 

[Dcheech]

5 hours ago, PJ71 said:

They deserve nothing - typical septic mind set of sue everyone in a heart beat....

I doubt they will get any money, but likely, even americans <deleted>), understand they were almost killed. First westerner I knew personally, who died in LOS, was electrocuted at his new koi pond. Older Euro. Call it 'death by Non-Nany state', as he had just hired a person to put in lighting. Zap.

 

Likely most have forgotten about the Indian couple found dead in a pool in Koh Tao. So many die there, this flew under the radar. However, one news article mentioned the pool was having work done. Bingo. Like anything else on that island, we will never know for sure, but yes electrocuted, fits with all the evidence we have.
 

It is a problem here for sure. If you want to whinge about it, fine, pop a Leo, swill & have at it.
Cheers

[The Theory]

Lucky will be if get your money back for the room.

[roo860]

38 minutes ago, G Rex said:

Only if the cardiac muscle was damaged by the electric shock 

Could have been damaged before?

[kensisaket]

News flash to the author of this article, " after the couple and their son were electrocuted", electrocution involves death.  

[shackleton]

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Oh dear 

This will send shock waves out for people thinking of using a Jacuzzi 

On holiday ????

[stoner]

double shock headline. lame

 

should of read 

 

couple experiences electrifying night of love after steamy jacuzzi incident. 

[Bangkok Barry]

3 hours ago, Ohyesuare said:

No compensation at all for almost dying by electrocution

Where does it say they almost died, except their lawyer who can hardly be said to be impartial? They felt discomfort, numbness.

[Bangkok Barry]

The hotel acted responsibly by taking them to hospital and offering to pay their medical expenses. Of course, they'd want receipts as any business would. And of course the hospital wanted them there overnight as there was money to be made.

The defamation laws in Thailand have actually worked against the hotel, as we don't know which hotel acted in such a responsible way. Many would simply deny there was a problem.

[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, steven100 said:

should it not read :   Thai-African American  or Thai-French African American   ??   

Why?

[metisdead]

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[hellohello123]

How on earth are you going to quantify the damsage to your kid before its even born???

[ChaiyaTH]

6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Good luck with that. I would not even put a bad review on Tripadvisor before getting back to the USA!

Is not the same, she is Thai. But how is 100,000 baht not enough already, they are fine, knowing they spend about 10k per 3 days on hotels, they are compensated for an entire month stay.

This is just the typical American behavior again, to think you become rich after it.

[roietfortress]

i mainly wonder if the hotel fixed the wiring?

 

its probably a loose gasket on the lights. low wattage hence just feeling a buzz. i feel that low buzz all over the place. and not only from bong hits.

 

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