Northern Irishman fights for life after Thailand holiday accident

[bkk6060]

Strange.  Maybe he was drunk and fell?

Just saying, if that is the case he probably would not get near as many donations.

[Justanotherone]

how much does life support cost for a farang with no insurance?

100k a day? 200k a day? 300?

 

[Robin]

Renting motorcycles to tourists is a big money maker for Thais, so rental companies are not going to care too much about the renter having a m/c licence.  many Thais do not have a licence so why any different for tourists.

Throw in the poor quality local crash helmets and lack of maintenance and riding aa m/c is nearly suicidal.  Plenty of warnings, motor cyclists are the majority of Thai road fatalities

[norfolkandchance]

8 minutes ago, Justanotherone said:

how much does life support cost for a farang with no insurance?

100k a day? 200k a day? 300?

 

If that's the case and he is on life support the Justgiving account is going to take a hit.

[madone]

not been a great January for the Irish, i can think of a few that have hit the recent news and a good friend of mine passed unexpectedly while visiting home last week

[PETERTHEEATER]

3 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

I am suprised,!  Thais have not tried to use "go fund me" as a scam,!!  sob story few pic's ect,  money come rolling in !!!

The 'sick buffalo' pleas still works well. 😀

[soalbundy]

3 hours ago, MikeandDow said:

I am suprised,!  Thais have not tried to use "go fund me" as a scam,!!  sob story few pic's ect,  money come rolling in !!!

They have the sick Buffalo story.

[soalbundy]

26 minutes ago, madone said:

not been a great January for the Irish, i can think of a few that have hit the recent news and a good friend of mine passed unexpectedly while visiting home last week

There are paths that guide our way

rough hew them how we may.

[Sheryl]

4 hours ago, harryviking said:

After all the "accidents" on Koh Tao over the years I wonder why someone bother to risk going there ever! There are of course accidents everywhere in Thailand, but there are just so many "strange" ones on such a little place!🙄

No indication that this speciric accident occurred on Koh Tao.

 

Nothing said about where in Thailand it occurred.

[MikeandDow]

These  "Go fund me scams""  should be held accoutable !!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93l8j1j8yvo

[Captain Flack]

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[Ralf001]

3 hours ago, Centigrade32 said:

 

 

The family chooses to not say. Why should they? 

 

They are scabbing money from strangers, some info should be forthcoming.

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[BangkokReady]

7 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

Cue the usual parade of AN posters who get outraged when people fundraise after a tragedy.

 

Cue the usual parade of AN posters who get outraged whenever anyone shows any outrage...  🙄