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

[Chivas]

5 minutes ago, leeedwards said:

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. 

 

Nope.

 

I;ve made many a bad decision but not when it comes to drugs. Pure evil and the problem is (and especially in the UK) whereby we let "end users" off with a caution (not dealers) instead of walloping them in jail for up to 7 years as per statute book

Even the dealers invariably get light sentences it seems of a few years at worst

 

If an end user was completely in the know that 1 gram of Cocaine 1 Ecstasy tab etc etc would land you inside for years drug crime would hugely drop

 

Too soft we are

[SiSePuede419]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The 64 year old heartbroken mother, Anita Turner, from Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, has been left shattered by the loss of her beloved 36 year old daughter Rebecca, who died in a Bangkok hotel room after snorting what she believed to be cocaine with her partner.

But but but it's better to "have fun" than "stay alive" according to the bog standard plonkers. 😘

[Deserted]

Education begins at home my friend, not at school.

[PeeJayEm]

8 hours ago, tmd5855 said:

Have no sympathy.... Why!!

 

Brought up a son who started smoking weed at "Primary" school, weed maybe safe for adults, but, it does strange things to young boys minds going through puberty.  My other son wanted a padlock on his bedroom door, then they wife wanted one on our bedroom door.  My ex tried to understand and gave hundreds of last chances, I told him that taking drugs would end up in one or two ways, Jail or death.

When folk who are not smart think they are we are getting into troubled waters.  I used all my contacts, influence and money to keep him out of jail.  I were working abroad when 4 uniformed cops, 2 plain clothes came my home with a sniffer dog.   He were no longer an addict, now a pusher, he were not home when cops arrived he were out and told to head straight to the station, phoned me out in Indonesia asking me to fix, told him I cannot fix this time.  I were the bad one.

Done jail time and jail got him onto harder drugs.  UK jails have drugs freely available.

 

On the 29th December 2016, my son took his own life aged 27.

 

No drugs he would be still alive.  

 

Taking drugs is a choice, nothing more.  Drugs never end up well, it splits families and creates wounds that will never heal.

Sympathy with you mate. You did what you could. Reality is that the only person who can fix it is the individual themself. The same happens in alcoholism too - it's just more insipid and slower in killing people.

[frank83628]

2 hours ago, Chivas said:

 

Nope.

 

I;ve made many a bad decision but not when it comes to drugs. Pure evil and the problem is (and especially in the UK) whereby we let "end users" off with a caution (not dealers) instead of walloping them in jail for up to 7 years as per statute book

Even the dealers invariably get light sentences it seems of a few years at worst

 

If an end user was completely in the know that 1 gram of Cocaine 1 Ecstasy tab etc etc would land you inside for years drug crime would hugely drop

 

Too soft we are

Written by someone that has zero experience with drugs whatsoever 

[Taboo2]

 

Wonder if they got it from the Nigerians on Sukhumvit?

[tmd5855]

21 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.

First time you smoke weed it leaves you bereft of choice??.

 

My post if you read between the lines is how you start off of with soft which leads to stronger.

After my sons death, met many of his druggie friends and one thing I got from them were chasing happiness.  No matter how good life/work/relationships were they wanted to get up to that next level.

 

Getting up to that next level is a choice.

[BigStar]

21 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

How about don't preach or judge

 

But the aggrieved mother is preaching and judging. While doing so she missed the larger picture.

 

. . . urged tourists travelling to Thailand to steer clear of drugs . . . . There’s a massive drug problem out there, and you need to be really careful.

 

Steer clear of illegal drugs anywhere, not just in Thailand. Like all parents, including those of mass shooters, she avoids placing any blame on herself. How much did she really know about her daughter? Seems just popping out for a bag o' cocaine wasn't that big of a deal by the time she got to Khaosan Rd.

 

21 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

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.

 

Has everything to do with it. The parameters of the path they choose, and of what bad influences and temptations they're too weak to resist, are determined by strong parental guidance in childhood. Some kids, so-called "invulnerables," can escape the influence of poor parenting and do quite well, but Rebecca wasn't one of them. Where's her father, BTW?

 

21 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

Shame on you for making such an insensitive comment.

 

Sad for anyone affected by your ignorance about the way things work w/ raising kids. Similarly, Mum hasn't learned a thing except "careful about them illegal drugs in Thailand!"

 

[Ctkong]

On 12/18/2024 at 1:27 PM, 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.

As a Buddhist, I believe in karma . Karma inflicts everybody regardless their religious beliefs. So even if you are a good parent, your kid may turn out bad simply because in this reincarnation, his purpose is to exact his/ her pound of flesh from you due to past actions. If they are bad and left in an early death, it only meant that they had exacted their pound of flesh and it is time to go as debt settled including the anguish it caused their parents. My take. 

[harrycallahan]

No mention of how she managed to support herself as an eternal traveler. And her charitable efforts were odd to say the least. 

 

"buying dolls from underprivileged children and redistributing them to those with nothing" 

 

Buying dolls off poor kids and giving them to even poorer kids. 

[DonniePeverley]

Feels like there are drugs everywhere in Thailand. 

 

Just a disgrace what's happened since this new government came into power. 

[nightfox]

On 12/18/2024 at 12:16 PM, J Branche said:

Let's go to Bangkok buy some powder off some sketchy street person and snort it.

 

Go out drink, act stupid come back and sleep it off.  Live to party another day.

That sounds like any Brit I met here.

[steven100]

zero sympathy here ....   you take drugs ...  you chose the wrong path. 

[Jim Blue]

On 12/18/2024 at 12:30 PM, Dobbsie58 said:

This is pretty extreme behaviour, weed has only just been legalised in Thailand and they take a dim view on class A’s. Anyone spending any time in Asia/Thailand knows this and that as a result class A’s are high risk.

There are an increasing number of Africans selling coke around Soi 11, BTS Nana and wonder who they hell is that stupid as one, the risk of set up/extortion and two, the quality/risk of use. Such a tragedy but if you choose to dance with the devil…..

So if you and I  and everybody else knows about Soi 11 why does is it still allowed ?

[Nicholas Paul KNIGHT]

Cynical this may sound but no matter what as a Parent you do, when they are alone, children for whatever reason choose to ignore parental advice and do what kids do . I feel for the mother but sadly nowt she can do . 

[Harsh Jones]

On 12/17/2024 at 10:01 PM, watchcat said:

 

Young people think so.

She was 36. And still traveling around SE Asia like she's 21