Easy enough to find your hole in Thailand.

8 hours ago, Fact said:

22 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Ridiculous thing to say in the context of this thread.   Gratuitous Thai-bashing culture of (some) AN posters strikes again.

Why?  A well was hidden under the grass.  That’s not safe for anyone. 

A well was not "hidden under the grass", there was a well obscured by jungle-like vegetation, there was no indication of there being any grass anywhere.

19 hours ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

 

The empty bottle would have helped, water wings seem to work and they have less volume of air. 

 

Don't forget the body is already a buoyant body, the water bottle would have been an aid, it does not have to support the weight of his whole body weight does it?

 

It just has to help to keep his head above water, plus the water was still, he was not in an ocean was he?

 

So yes, the bottle would have helped. 

 

Maybe you need a lesson in simple Physics? 

Was the bottle airtight?   

When a body is perpendicular to the water, as in this case, the body has a tendency to go straight down, there was not enough room for him to float horizontally.

Maybe you need a lesson in physics.

On 10/10/2025 at 12:05 PM, billd766 said:

I also think that he was using a long shaft petrol strimmer judging by the length of long grass.

 

I suggest that it was a petrol strimmer rather than an electric one, as there is no sign of it, and if it sank in the well, he may well have been electrocuted.

 

There is about a metre distance between the cutting head and the user.

Yes, the petrol type that my gardeners use.

On 10/10/2025 at 10:16 AM, hotchilli said:

The post said he was mowing the lawn not strimming it... so I was presuming nothing

 

My gardeners "mow the lawn" with petrol powered strimmers.  

But you're right, it said "mowing" so it's reasonable to picture him pushing a mower, except of course if he had been and the mower had fallen into the hole, it's very unlikely he would have held on and followed it down the hole.

Well, there you go...

On 10/12/2025 at 12:07 AM, Freddy42OZ said:

My gardeners "mow the lawn" with petrol powered strimmers.  

I recall pestering the gardeners at my  school cutting the pitches grass, I asked them if they got 'mower work here'... they taught me colorful ways of saying go away!

On 10/10/2025 at 6:51 PM, SAFETY FIRST said:

Yes, Fritz would know that.

As I said earlier, looks like he started to party in August 

My name is Frits (reading is difficult, I am not German)

Stupid kraut