American Tourist Dies in Phuket After Night Out Drinking with Friends

[PingRoundTheWorld]

Ethanol doesn't kill that easily unless you drink several bottles. More likely methanol ("fake alcohol") in which case this is very concerning and we will see additional cases come soon. Either that or mixed with drugs.

 

Personally I've had my drink spiked before (not in Thailand), so I will not drink anything that doesn't come out of a bottle I can see. And never leave your drink unattended either. I hold mine in my hand 95% of the time. 🤣

[PingRoundTheWorld]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Out for a drink with his mates until 04:30, I don't think he was drinking PG Tips

OK boomer. Last night I started drinking at 4:30am. Not even joking. If you want to go to bed at 11pm that's up to you. Maybe I will too when I'm older (I'm in my 40's), but doubt it.

[richard_smith237]

18 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

3 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Unpleasant comment .

They weren't aware that he was about to die , also, it hasn't be shown yet that it was the drunk that killed him 

Did you join them or how do you know?😳

‘cos its in the same manner that tens of thousands socialise in Thailand & millions socialise worldwide.

It’s quite normal to stay out until 4-5am when young - unless you don’t have friends !!! (Which would explain plenty of your comments). 

To suggest the GF & friend ‘watched him drink himself to death’ is a callous and unpleasant remark… Nick is right (whether his comments in other threads are disagreeable or not). 

 

2 hours ago, Brave-Fart said:

Friends and girl-friend all I would presume were with him and therefore also drinking , so why did they now suffer same or similar symptoms ?

This is what is remarkably odd - if there is any poisoning of sorts from the booze itself it’s likely other’s would also have suffered ill health. 
 

 

[newbee2022]

3 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Youngsters frequently stay out that late , could be anything that caused him to die

Yeah, a snake, spider or Scorpion?

[newbee2022]

3 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

This is what is remarkably odd - if there is any poisoning of sorts from the booze itself it’s likely other’s would also have suffered ill health. 

...only if they drank the same as him or/and from the very  same bottle or glass.....what was not likely to happen.

[ronnie50]

9 hours ago, edwinchester said:

Hopefully the autopsy will perform a check for methanol poisoning.

It says the Embassy is involved providing consular service, they've seen all the recent news about spiked drinks. They need to demand a toxicology report. Even if it reveals that it was spiked, the embassy probably wouldn't publicise that fact and so would the Thai authorities publicise it? Let me just leave that question there..

[ronnie50]

2 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:

early 20s is the age of ignorance as to such things, it doesn't necessarily mean lack of regard for life. It just means stupid. They accept being <deleted>faced as perfectly normal. I've seen it a million times, a gang goes out specifically for the purpose of getting hammered, and of course here you don't drive, so there are no legal limits, and you learn your lessons the hard way. I don't like being around drunks because of my experiences with my family's alcoholism. I don't like seeing people in a degraded state. I have better quality fun and experiences when I'm sober. 

Agree I've seen the same and have had my own over-the-limit experiences. But not many people are aware that this generation doesn't drink like "we" did (or for some in our generation still do). I'm not saying all the 20-somethings are tea total, just that, many of the young Westerners, are not big boozers (maybe country by country) and the stats exist to back up that shift.

[bkk6060]

Most people pass-out from excessive alcohol.  Dieing is not that common.

I think drugs, maybe something wanted.

[ronnie50]

3 hours ago, Brave-Fart said:

Friends and girl-friend all I would presume were with him and therefore also drinking , so why did they now suffer same or similar symptoms ?

Not really clear from the article whether the girlfriend was actually out with him or back at the hotel while he was out with mates. She raised the alarm when he got home anyway.

[sanabavy IV]

please, have no mercy 

[GammaGlobulin]

I say he was drinking and then, somehow, ingested a foreign substance which is not related to any of the many naturally occurring alcohols, and probably not methanol.

 

REASON:  Methanol does not cause sickness, normally, this quickly.

 

I realize that I am not a forensic pathologist, and I have not seen the lab results, but it does not sound like an alcohol issue to me.

 

This must have been caused by some other drug, or adulterant, either intentionally provided to him, or through some other misadventure.

 

If I were to hazard a guess, then I would think something related to heroin, perhaps.

 

 

[sultan2011]

4 hours ago, harleyclarkey said:

How many of us here think.....there for the grace of God go I?

I remember, many decades (yes, not years!) ago getting comatose few times on cheap bucket booze. We were lucky then as there were nowhere near as many dangers. No methanol, no pills and dare I say it far nicer times. 

100% agree..Way better times and no Harley barley Clarkey!

[happydreamer]

4 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Youngsters frequently stay out that late , could be anything that caused him to die

 

Sad story.  Heartbreaking for his family.  I think of all the times I was out drinking what was passed off as Lao Kao when it could have easily been anything.  The one thing I would never do though is mess with the dope here.  There's so many other places in the world to go if you wanna mess with drugs.  Let this serve as a warning to any young kids coming over here....make sure your drinks come from a bottle, can or something that you open and for fuxsake stay away from drugs.  If you're lucky it's crushed up glass.  Be safe and RIP young man

[sambum]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Nice friends, watch him drink himself to death.

 

Maybe he was keeping up with his friends but had one of his drinks spiked? 

[G Rex]

All of you arm-chair experts are so annoying! So holier than thou! 

Yes - it may have been alcohol related , it may have been drugs, spiked or self administered, he could have aspirated and choked on his own puke.

Whatever!!!     

But can we please agree that this is a sad outcome - and leave the diagnostics and pontifications to the experts?

Thank you

[suspectdevice]

11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

People don't understand how dangerous and incredibly toxic excessive alcohol consumption is. He could have had done sort of liver ailment. It could have been spiked. Or he could have mixed many different alcohols and simply went way past his limit. 

That's a lot of could haves, Columbo......

[NobbyClarke]

R.I.P young man.

 

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[Kwausie]

10 hours ago, G Rex said:

All of you arm-chair experts are so annoying! So holier than thou! 

Yes - it may have been alcohol related , it may have been drugs, spiked or self administered, he could have aspirated and choked on his own puke.

Whatever!!!     

But can we please agree that this is a sad outcome - and leave the diagnostics and pontifications to the experts?

Thank you

My uncle died on his own vomit. so very sad for family and friends especially at that young age, can only imagine how distraught the girlfriend would have been.  

[ToolKit]

On 4/7/2025 at 8:32 PM, edwinchester said:

Hopefully the autopsy will perform a check for methanol poisoning.

 

Methanol-laced drink? Probably more than one would have been ill.

[watchcat]

On 4/8/2025 at 11:30 AM, bkk6060 said:

I think drugs, maybe something wanted.

 

Alcohol IS a drug.