British tourist missing after trip to Bangkok found safe in Finland

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

It's not a crime to want that ... but it is a crime to file missing persons reports, initiate a missing at the embassies, have police travel all over the city looking,  had hundreds of people involved ... etc ... etc when actual it's all false and the person is not missing ...  

 

It is a crime to instigate that for no reason    !!

IMHO the police should not have gotten involved in this. I am not sure if they were involved or maybe they just recorded a "missing person" and didn't do anything.

 

If anybody though he/she should search for the guy that was their personal decision.

 

If a young child goes missing for a day or more, that is a reason for concern. If an adult doesn't call anybody or doesn't update his facebook page, that is no concern at all. 

 

When I remember my Thailand holidays 30 years ago, I certainly would not have desired to get phone calls from my mother every day: Son, what are you doing? Where are you? 

My answer would have been I am on holiday! 

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

no ... he didn't do anything,   that's the problem.

 

2 people are at fault here ... him,  for not texting and saying ' i'm fine, will call you in a week ' 

and her ( the sister )   for initiating the missing persons process when he was not missing. 

 

and to be found safe and well,    and not address anyone as to why makes him look even worse .

He would have been better off to at least say he wanted to be left alone or whatever ... 

 

He doesn't have to text or call anybody!

And he doesn't have to explain to anybody why he didn't do that.

He was on holiday and obviously he didn't want to have contact with people back home. Is that really so difficult to understand?

[steven100]

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

He doesn't have to text or call anybody!

And he doesn't have to explain to anybody why he didn't do that.

He was on holiday and obviously he didn't want to have contact with people back home. Is that really so difficult to understand?

then tell the sister to stop wasting valuable resources searching for someone not missing. 

[Gandtee]

2 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

 

So I bumped into this woman at the airport..  and decided to extend my vacation ......  ( BECAUSE I CAN )

He is being trafficked.😉

[mancub]

That's one of the problems with social media.....

People are so attached to their phones these days, that the moment they don't post what they had for breakfast. everyone does into panic mode.

[mikebell]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Robinson was on flight AY142 – Finnair’s Bangkok-Helsinki route.

I pity him; I only did this flight once; the price of drinks was astronomical and there was insufficient luggage in the overhead lockers.

[CecilM]

Either he's an idiot for unintentionally not contacting his family, or he's an idiot for deliberately not contacting his family. 
Boils down to the same, he's an idiot. 

[andygrr]

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

he was probably a mule so obviously he can't say why 

 

[Taboo2]

Waste of time.  

[cnx101]

3 hours ago, Artisi said:

Thank God he's been located, the whole of Thailand can now relax and sleep easy. 

Me also I’ll be able to sleep tonight 

[andygrr]

He wasn't in Thailand long, May have thought he caught something he couldn't take home to his girlfriend so needed time for the antibiotics to work.

[cnx101]

9 minutes ago, mikebell said:

I pity him; I only did this flight once; the price of drinks was astronomical and there was insufficient luggage in the overhead lockers.

Yes and tiny bit of food, I was starved, never use Finnair again

[retarius]

Selfish prick.

[Nickcage49]

All that for nothing. So he is a selfish pr*ck. That's what the article should have said, lol

[twizzian]

Although he was found safe and well, it’s a long pointless news story that still gets everyone wondering why the sudden change of destination, or did I miss that part

[Lorry]

1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:

Go on, boy, grow up

Question to the many Brits here:

What seems to be the legal age in your country?

40? 50? Never?

[Old Croc]

There was a rule on this forum against posting missing person searches and this case illustrates why it existed.

This was not a police search, it was instigated by an hysterical sister or ex-girlfriend. Authorities obviously knew early that he had departed but couldn't (officially) comment without consent.

The guy left early for Finland perhaps because he found Thailand too hot for his delicate British constitution or perhaps because he met a hot Finnish girl about to head home.

Strange travel patterns do attract scrutiny at airports for good reason. 

[ignore it]

Your help urgently needed!

 

Last seen located near the airport in Miami, My sister reports that she has lost track of her car keys.

 

She hasn't seen them for an hour and is desperate!  The whole family is concerned.

 

[Furioso]

 I thought we nuked Finland a long time ago. 

[XB12X]

A farce from beginning to end.

[Slocum]

3 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

My thoughts exactly. The suspense was killing me.

No responsible person would do a thing like that..Who gives a damn if he get lost permanently or never to be found...He is a adult...not a kid..

[steven100]

15 minutes ago, ignore it said:

Your help urgently needed!

 

Last seen located near the airport in Miami, My sister reports that she has lost track of her car keys.

 

She hasn't seen them for an hour and is desperate!  The whole family is concerned.

 

 

your sister needs to go to the police and also make a fake missing keys report.   

also contact the embassy ... 

[ignore it]

20 minutes ago, ignore it said:

Your help urgently needed!

 

Last seen located near the airport in Miami, My sister reports that she has lost track of her car keys.

 

She hasn't seen them for an hour and is desperate!  The whole family is concerned.

 

Follow-up

 

She found them.

They were in her pocket.

We thank everyone for their concern and apologize for any inconvenience.

[jippytum]

This inconsiderate young man caused a lot of anxiety to his family and the authorities trying to trace his whereabouts because he decided not to inform his worried family of his change of travel plans

[Jethro Tull]

9 minutes ago, jippytum said:

This inconsiderate young man caused a lot of anxiety to his family and the authorities trying to trace his whereabouts because he decided not to inform his worried family of his change of travel plans

Maybe he thought “ I am a grown man, my sister and gf won’t overreact and call the police/interpol/Liam Neeson “ ??

 

He is foolish for not keeping in touch but the blame for this farce is purely the sister/gf.

[Ebumbu]

He didn't answer because nobody said, "Simon says." 

[Sydebolle]

Leaves some interesting questions regarding passenger name list of Finnair as well as the super-modern system of the Royal Thai Immigration ....... unanswered - seriously. 

How is this possible, honestly? Maybe the whole story is a hoax or some juicier details remain unmentioned? 

[alex8912]

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

IMHO the police should not have gotten involved in this. I am not sure if they were involved or maybe they just recorded a "missing person" and didn't do anything.

 

If anybody though he/she should search for the guy that was their personal decision.

 

If a young child goes missing for a day or more, that is a reason for concern. If an adult doesn't call anybody or doesn't update his facebook page, that is no concern at all. 

 

When I remember my Thailand holidays 30 years ago, I certainly would not have desired to get phone calls from my mother every day: Son, what are you doing? Where are you? 

My answer would have been I am on holiday! 

 

 

That's it boomer " 30 years ago". Times have changed. It is strange for a person who updates Facebook or whatever everyday ( as unfortunately a billion people do) to all of a sudden stop! I bet it wasn't super cheap for your mommy to call you 30 years ago as well. I didn't have a cell phone in 1994 and my mommy didn't either.  Yours did but she didn't call you for other obvious reason and you had a phone for some reason too. Why?? 

[impulse]

10 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

Leaves some interesting questions regarding passenger name list of Finnair as well as the super-modern system of the Royal Thai Immigration ....... unanswered - seriously. 

How is this possible, honestly? Maybe the whole story is a hoax or some juicier details remain unmentioned? 

 

They may have had the answers, but privacy policies prevent them from revealing them to anyone but law enforcement.  It's nobody's business but the guy traveling.

 

[Artisi]

4 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

With perhaps million of baht spent searching for this foolish child, along with countless hours of time and effort spent looking by various officials in various countries, one would think there would be a law which he could be charged with, to teach this kid a lesson?

Who was looking, seems only a certain news outlet in Thailand were concerned with his well-being.