British mother’s tourist warning after drugs kill daughter in Thailand

[Spock]

2 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

it is truly sad that these young people do not understand that Khaoson Rd is full of knock offs ,pimps and thieves.

Not to mention other places,

NZ and Aussie are full of badly cooked drugs and drugs laced with fentanyl, the culprits are the gangs who have teemed up with the Chinese mafia.

The Lebanese run the drug trade in Australia, in LOS who knows but the police are likely to be involved and some bad imported people.

How can it be stopped? it probably can't, until stupid people or should I say gullible innocent people learn not to touch the stuff.

RIP to a nice couple who did not deserve this.

I just read that Thailand will keep the death penalty, hope that they catch these low life murderers and execute them.

The last execution in Thailand was 2018 and the one before that in 2009. The dealer who has not been identified or caught  will not be executed.

[kingstonkid]

3 hours ago, J Branche said:

From what I've hear the drugs from 40 years ago were not as potent.

 

Today you get it wrong once and it's game over.

 

RIP Rebecca and partner.  

 

No, the difference 40 years ago was that when you bought, you got what you bought, although some added PCP or the weed that you bought was really weeds.

 

Now these days, because of lack of care as well as worry about the police if you buy real cocaine or drugs, they make thier own and call it

 

Also 40 years ago kids were usually smarter and would not just buy off of joe shmo.

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, portisaacozzy said:

what has thot got to do with it! she might have had good morals,common sence and discipline but in the end she got a bad deal without knowing.

"...she got a bad deal without knowing".

 

...due entirely to her lack of morals, common sense and discipline.

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

What about her boyfriend?

Yes. "Hands up all those those grieving for Sam"........(no response)

[Thingamabob]

4 hours ago, watchcat said:

 

Young people think so.

These people were late thirties, approaching middle age.

[Tropicalevo]

 

3 hours ago, kuzmabruk said:

Hard to overdose from smoking opium or pot or eating shrooms.

 

Easy if you ride a scooter or drive a car afterwards - which many do.

The trouble is that Thai police do not test for these so they are just 'accidents'.

[cardinalblue]

Bad luck….many fools daily escape the same fate…

[Homburg]

2 hours ago, jimn said:

Sympathy for the mother but not for the woman who died. She wasn't a kid, she was 36 for heavens sake.

 

I have sympathy for both.

 

Rebecca was from the UK, and that apparent poor decision-making and lack of maturity in a 36yo is a symptom of the malaise generated from the UK's "health and safety" obsessed Government and society.  Nothing that can be controlled by legislation is allowed to be dangerous, everything is "safe". 

 

UK citizens growing up are kept wrapped up in cotton-wool and told repeatedly that the state is responsible for their well-being "from the cradle to the grave".  

 

The result is that many UK citizens do not learn how to take care of themselves nor how dangerous the world can be, so a 36yo who has not learnt how to make life-saving choices when allowed out into a freer environment is very, very sad, but no surprise. 

 

R.I.P. Rebecca.

[Jonathan Swift]

5 hours ago, BigStar said:

How about warning parents to teach their kids good morals, common sense, and discipline.

How about don't preach or judge. You have no idea how this girl was raised. Parents do the best they can. This has nothing to do with upbringing. Once a child becomes an adult they choose their own path, and fall under a lot of influences and temptations outside of parent's reach. Shame on you for making such an insensitive comment.

[NORDO]

About ten years ago...or so, I ran into a New Years Eve street party near a BKK hotel I was staying in.   I shared a table with several Eastern European types.   We were laughing and pouring each other drinks.   Hour or so later I was feeling ill and stumbled back to my room, or close to it.   Hotel staff called ambulance after I fell down stairs that I was trying to negotiate.   However, the Med staff never came.   So I was loaded in a taxi and rushed off to BKK hospital.   I had lost the ability to move my arms, walk upright and slurred incoherently.   Two days in hospital with many tests.  Toxicology labs indicated a strong sedative in my system.   It was several weeks before my functions returned to normal.  With luck, liver and kidney functions were normal.

 

SE Asia is the land of opportunists, you can never be sure of what ur getting.

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

2 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

Taking some drugs is only a choice the first time. It changes your body chemistry and is no longer a choice.

No!

Obviously, some people use that as an excuse to take more of the same.

But there are enough people out there who realize that taking drugs again and again is a bad idea and they stop.

[dunroaming]

5 hours ago, BigStar said:

How about warning parents to teach their kids good morals, common sense, and discipline.

Well she was 36 years old so not a kid at all.  In fact old enough to have kids of her own and certainly old enough to make her own grown up decisions.  A tragedy certainly and it looks like there was some naivety involved by this pair.  This is Thailand and as with everything here, it is very much a case of buyer beware! 

[twizzian]

It’s easy to just say ‘No’ to any illegal drug, because it’s encouraged not forced on you.

 

[connda]

Mummy is assuming that Thailand is some sort of a drug haven without understanding that the drug laws here are significantly stricter than most Western countries. If her daughter was into the drug scene then the overdose could have happened in the UK, EU, or US just as easily, actually, more easily.  Go to any city in West Coast America and pick a drug.  You don't have to worry about US cops coming around to clubs and making you pee into a bottle then arresting you if your pee turns purple. Drug prevention starts at home, mummy.

[connda]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

It was tragically revealed that the powder Rebecca and her partner bought was a lethal cocktail comprising nine different drugs, including painkillers, sleeping pills, and anxiety medications. Anita now warns young travellers to resist the temptations of pushy street dealers, warning that you never really know what you’re getting into.

She could have gone to the US and "snorted what she thought was cocaine" and end up as another fentanyl statistic. 

Thailand bad!

🔱  When you dance with the devil, you eventually pay the devil his due.  Don't want to die of a drug overdose?  Don't do drugs.  Mummy is missing the point that her daughter sounds like she had a drug problem. Where it finally caught up with her isn't the problem.

[geisha]

5 hours ago, J Branche said:

From what I've hear the drugs from 40 years ago were not as potent.

 

Today you get it wrong once and it's game over.

 

RIP Rebecca and partner.  

True, 60s and 70s I was in the Uk,and loads of people around me were takings things like LSD , and lots of smokes. In all those years , which were often quite free and wild, I only heard of one person who had died after falling from a balcony after taking LSD. I don’t think things were “ doctored” in those days. Today, it’s especially dangerous as people are mixing up these lethal drugs at home.

[john donson]

self inflicted stupidity

[newbee2022]

3 hours ago, soalbundy said:

No sympathy, at 36 she should have had more sense, these days many people seem to take drugs like sweets, there must be a lot of desperation in the world.

Yes, with 36 she is responsible for what she's doing. Either with drugs or without. She chose the first. In addition the mother failed with education. Sad story.

[Slocum]

6 hours ago, BigStar said:

How about warning parents to teach their kids good morals, common sense, and discipline.

If you are a responsible parent..just remember...Charity start from  home...good or bad...from Young be watchful,mindful with kids about their vulnabilities upbringing... it's a responsibility of parent...rather than Cry fowl now and feel sorry... it's just to late...to advice other's now..just a waste of time...to tell your Sad story....Hmm.my heart is bleeding..

 

[KannikaP]

6 hours ago, Celsius said:

They tought they were so cool

They are now.

[Bday Prang]

5 hours ago, frank83628 said:

There is nothing to say the coke was dodgy just that they had a cocktail in their system. they might well have been mixing drugs themsleves.  

What "coke" are you talking about . There never was any actual coke, just a cocktail of what would appear to be random narcotics mixed together which was being sold as coke.  there was no coke found in her system according to the article

 

"opiates, morphine, codeine, noscapine, and a slew of benzodiazepines."  but no coke

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, Jonathan Swift said:

Parents do the best they can.

Like the two Pakistani animals jailed for life yesterday for torturing their 10 year old daughter.

[soalbundy]

1 minute ago, newbee2022 said:

Yes, with 36 she is responsible for what she's doing. Either with drugs or without. She chose the first. In addition the mother failed with education. Sad story.

I don't think you can blame the mother, children, teenagers and young adults orientate themselves on their peers. Migrant children don't speak English with the accents of their migrated parents, they speak with the normal accents of their new homeland, Turkish parents have problems with their daughters born in Germany for instance because they reject the strict moral norms of their parents and assimilate the norms of German teenagers. My own Thai British son 17 doesn't understand British humour and often feels insulted when I use it on him but laughs at 'boing' Thai humour which I find childish. The guidance of peers carries far more weight.

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, Homburg said:

 

I have sympathy for both.

 

Rebecca was from the UK, and that apparent poor decision-making and lack of maturity in a 36yo is a symptom of the malaise generated from the UK's "health and safety" obsessed Government and society.  Nothing that can be controlled by legislation is allowed to be dangerous, everything is "safe". 

 

UK citizens growing up are kept wrapped up in cotton-wool and told repeatedly that the state is responsible for their well-being "from the cradle to the grave".  

 

The result is that many UK citizens do not learn how to take care of themselves nor how dangerous the world can be, so a 36yo who has not learnt how to make life-saving choices when allowed out into a freer environment is very, very sad, but no surprise. 

 

R.I.P. Rebecca.

very true this is an excellent example of the consequences of replacing common sense with nanny state legislation,   What could possibly go wrong?

[newbee2022]

17 minutes ago, soalbundy said:

I don't think you can blame the mother, children, teenagers and young adults orientate themselves on their peers. Migrant children don't speak English with the accents of their migrated parents, they speak with the normal accents of their new homeland, Turkish parents have problems with their daughters born in Germany for instance because they reject the strict moral norms of their parents and assimilate the norms of German teenagers. My own Thai British son 17 doesn't understand British humour and often feels insulted when I use it on him but laughs at 'boing' Thai humour which I find childish. The guidance of peers carries far more weight.

Well, I can only partly agree. I myself never took any drugs, no smoking. I tried to give my children a good personal, school, university education. In their early years I showed them X-rays of "alc-liver" and "tarred lung". Also I told them about the risks and danger taking drugs. It worked. None of them is taking drugs.

[Peabody]

6 hours ago, frank83628 said:

There is nothing to say the coke was dodgy just that they had a cocktail in their system. they might well have been mixing drugs themsleves.  

Absolutely. Surely there must have been SOMETHING in the room with traces of something(s) they ingested. I bet they had alcohol in their systems too.

OK, seems some powder was tested by the plod.

[leeedwards]

I'm sure everyone who's commented on here has made a bad decision or two in their lives, and should be grateful that theirs didn't cost them their life. In fact, most of u have probably sat on a motorcycle taxi without a helmet!!! The lack of sympathy and understanding is quite frankly shocking here. Imagine if it were your daughter!! And by the way, there are far more dumb numbnuts around drinking alcohol and causing problems than anything else. 

[Chivas]

8 hours ago, BigStar said:

How about warning parents to teach their kids good morals, common sense, and discipline.

 

Got it in one !

 

Afraid I have zero sympathy

[Deserted]

Unlikely, most probability it was how she reacted that exacerated the impact of it. It would have put her under strain yes but unlikely to belife threatening, unless panic sets in and destroys her ability to cope.

[troy]

8 hours ago, BigStar said:

How about warning parents to teach their kids good morals, common sense, and discipline.

Exactly. If you teach your kids morals and discipline they will follow it 100% and never take risks or break any rules. Just like we all did.😉