Australian Man Jumps From 4th Floor Balcony After Argument With Girlfriend

[Rimmer]

Australian Man jumps from 4th floor Balcony after argument with Girlfriend

PATTAYA:-- In the early hours of Thursday Morning, Police Lieutenant Colonel Anan, from Pattaya Police Station was called to the rear of the R-Con Apartments off the Central Pattaya Road to investigate an apparent suicide attempt involving a foreign tourist. Lying on the ground, in considerable pain, was Mr. Danny James Richardson from Australia

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2010-04-15

[saakura]

I pray he recovers and comes back to his senses. Not worth attempting to take your life over some argument with a girl.

[mythBuster]

Suicide from a 4th floor?? It is probably a cry for attention. It is very unfortunate but a almost daily fact of life that tourists who have at home wives that look like former Soviet Hammer Throwers fall in love with a nice little entertainer. It seems that lots of those men do not realize that you should not fall in love either with a prostitute in the red light district back home in Australia. Here they do. Husbands become elder brothers for the time being and love last until the money has been withdrawn from the family savings account.

I can't help it but I consider this good lessons. A good school is expensive after all.

[Slaps]

Hope he makes a full recovery

The link won't work for me But

Shouldn't it read...

Australian Man throws Girlfriend from 4th floor Balcony after an argument

[Lando]

Suicide from a 4th floor?? It is probably a cry for attention. It is very unfortunate but a almost daily fact of life that tourists who have at home wives that look like former Soviet Hammer Throwers fall in love with a nice little entertainer. It seems that lots of those men do not realize that you should not fall in love either with a prostitute in the red light district back home in Australia. Here they do. Husbands become elder brothers for the time being and love last until the money has been withdrawn from the family savings account.

I can't help it but I consider this good lessons. A good school is expensive after all.

L.O.S. = Land of Suicides ?

Still to be proven that he did committe suicide and he wasn't thrown and all was staged....however why people should fly 3,000 miles to kill themselves ? Unfortunately Pattaya suicides rate is embarassing....too many people whose brain is in their pants ?

[Lando]

Australian Man throws Girlfriend from 4th floor Balcony after an argument

That would make more sense....given that usually farang vs. thai lady is a 200 lb vs. 90 lb fight !

[gotlost]

Yep. The BG'S will get you every time.

[beach]

Honestly said,, that's a man with principles,,,, recognising his own stupidity and acting accordingly

[Slaps]

Honestly said,, that's a man with principles,,,, recognising his own stupidity and acting accordingly

Have to agree with you there

Done it myself many times

[tropo]

Suicide from a 4th floor?? It is probably a cry for attention.

Are you serious? You think a 4th floor drop can't kill a person? If it doesn't kill they could end up with permanent disabilities or worse yet, kill someone on the ground.

[britmaveric]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

[Pattaya46]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

Jumping from 4th floor is only 3 floors high : rather 27 ft than 40 ft.

Sure it could kill you (falling from a sidewalk could too)

but if you don't fall head first it's very likely not to kill you.

[Jonathanpattaya]

A sad story.

Let's hope there is no permanent damage.

Edited April 16, 2010 by Jonathanpattaya

[Shotime]

Australian Man throws Girlfriend from 4th floor Balcony after an argument

That would make more sense....given that usually farang vs. thai lady is a 200 lb vs. 90 lb fight !

Really. Forget the size difference. I've tried it, too, but I have a basement apartment. Old joke, sorry. 30 or 40 feet is a leap. He must be in much pain, both emotional and physical. This was in Pattaya? Odd.

[NanLaew]

Too much bloody Red Bull IMHO.

"It gives you wings....."

[britmaveric]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

Jumping from 4th floor is only 3 floors high : rather 27 ft than 40 ft.

Sure it could kill you (falling from a sidewalk could too)

but if you don't fall head first it's very likely not to kill you.

Quite correct - would be a 40ft drop from top of the 5th floor. Still 27-30ft drop no fun.

[tropo]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

Jumping from 4th floor is only 3 floors high : rather 27 ft than 40 ft.

Sure it could kill you (falling from a sidewalk could too)

but if you don't fall head first it's very likely not to kill you.

Quite correct - would be a 40ft drop from top of the 5th floor. Still 27-30ft drop no fun.

It all depends on how the floors are labelled. Don't they use both systems here?

I just had to include this news report today from Australia. Here's a story about how a man survived a 14-floor fall and another about a woman who died falling from a 4th-floor balcony. All Australians of course.

Man Survives 14-floor Fall

[MrJohnson]

Honestly said,, that's a man with principles,,,, recognising his own stupidity and acting accordingly

Have to agree with you there

Done it myself many times

Darwinism at work!

[tgw]

a 200 lb vs. 90 lb fight !

I think the 200 Ladyboys win.

Because god is usually on the side of the bigger battalions.

[zorro1]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

Jumping from 4th floor is only 3 floors high : rather 27 ft than 40 ft.

Sure it could kill you (falling from a sidewalk could too)

but if you don't fall head first it's very likely not to kill you.

Quite correct - would be a 40ft drop from top of the 5th floor. Still 27-30ft drop no fun.

you never fully recover , some crushed vertebrae for sure, bad back for life. strong chance of wheel chair

[MJo]

In construction industry the most fatalities due falling happen from 1 meter height or less.

Sorry don't know how many feet or hands it is...

[tropo]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

Jumping from 4th floor is only 3 floors high : rather 27 ft than 40 ft.

Sure it could kill you (falling from a sidewalk could too)

but if you don't fall head first it's very likely not to kill you.

So you think a person is more likely to survive a 4th floor fall than die unless he hits his head?

Interesting theory.

Let's do some calculations to see what speed he hits the ground at.

Distance of fall: Assuming a 3 ft balcony railing and 9 ft per floor let's assume a total distance of 30 feet = 9.14 meters

Time of fall = 1.365 seconds

Velocity of impact = 13.39 m/s = 48.2 km/h

He's hitting the ground at 48.2 km/h

Now how much damage could hitting concrete at that speed do?

Assuming the jumper weighs 80kg I input the variables into a car crash impact calculator. I had to guess the distance traveled "d" after impact until complete rest would be about 5cm (0.05m) (human flesh and bone depression upon impact if impact was flat). This would depend a lot on which bodyparts hit the ground first. Changing this variable has a large bearing on impact force "F".

Here's the results of the calculation:

16 tons is a pretty large impact force. That would seem to be more than enough to kill.

Perhaps some people with better knowledge of physics would be able to comment.

Here's the link for the crash impact calculator: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/carcr2.html#cc2

Edited April 17, 2010 by tropo

[zorro1]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

Jumping from 4th floor is only 3 floors high : rather 27 ft than 40 ft.

Sure it could kill you (falling from a sidewalk could too)

but if you don't fall head first it's very likely not to kill you.

So you think a person is more likely to survive a 4th floor fall than die unless he hits his head?

Interesting theory.

Let's do some calculations to see what speed he hits the ground at.

Distance of fall: Assuming a 3 ft balcony railing and 9 ft per floor let's assume a total distance of 30 feet = 9.14 meters

Time of fall = 1.365 seconds

Velocity of impact = 13.39 m/s = 48.2 km/h

He's hitting the ground at 48.2 km/h

Now how much damage could hitting concrete at that speed do?

Assuming the jumper weighs 80kg I input the variables into a car crash impact calculator. I had to guess the distance traveled "d" after impact until complete rest would be about 5cm (0.05m) (human flesh and bone depression upon impact if impact was flat). This would depend a lot on which bodyparts hit the ground first. Changing this variable has a large bearing on impact force "F".

Here's the results of the calculation:

16 tons is a pretty large impact force. That would seem to be more than enough to kill.

Perhaps some people with better knowledge of physics would be able to comment.

Well thats the end of this topic

[MB1]

Suicide from a 4th floor?? It is probably a cry for attention. It is very unfortunate but a almost daily fact of life that tourists who have at home wives that look like former Soviet Hammer Throwers fall in love with a nice little entertainer. It seems that lots of those men do not realize that you should not fall in love either with a prostitute in the red light district back home in Australia. Here they do. Husbands become elder brothers for the time being and love last until the money has been withdrawn from the family savings account.

I can't help it but I consider this good lessons. A good school is expensive after all.

L.O.S. = Land of Suicides ?

Still to be proven that he did committe suicide and he wasn't thrown and all was staged....however why people should fly 3,000 miles to kill themselves ? Unfortunately Pattaya suicides rate is embarassing....too many people whose brain is in their pants ?

Unless I read the article incorrectly, he never commited suicide and he was not killed...It seems to have been a failed suicide attempt.

[morrobay]

Least 40ft drop.... no ta, I think I will pass on a 4th floor jump.

Jumping from 4th floor is only 3 floors high : rather 27 ft than 40 ft.

Sure it could kill you (falling from a sidewalk could too)

but if you don't fall head first it's very likely not to kill you.

So you think a person is more likely to survive a 4th floor fall than die unless he hits his head?

Interesting theory.

Let's do some calculations to see what speed he hits the ground at.

Distance of fall: Assuming a 3 ft balcony railing and 9 ft per floor let's assume a total distance of 30 feet = 9.14 meters

Time of fall = 1.365 seconds

Velocity of impact = 13.39 m/s = 48.2 km/h

He's hitting the ground at 48.2 km/h

Now how much damage could hitting concrete at that speed do?

Assuming the jumper weighs 80kg I input the variables into a car crash impact calculator. I had to guess the distance traveled "d" after impact until complete rest would be about 5cm (0.05m) (human flesh and bone depression upon impact if impact was flat). This would depend a lot on which bodyparts hit the ground first. Changing this variable has a large bearing on impact force "F".

Here's the results of the calculation:

16 tons is a pretty large impact force. That would seem to be more than enough to kill.

Perhaps some people with better knowledge of physics would be able to comment.

Here's the link for the crash impact calculator: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/carcr2.html#cc2

You have the impact velocity correct: 43.8 ft/sec ( times ) (3600sec/hr / 5280ft/mile) = 29.8 miles/hr

But I dont think the car crash scenerio applies here because the car is going to absorb alot of the force.

I just went over the chapter on collisions in my physics text and in this case it would be an inelastic collision and the type of force is called an impulse force, like a bat hitting a baseball.

The impulse force = change in momentum/ change in time.

Momentum = mass x velocity

So the momentum equals 176 lbs x 43.8 ft/sec = 7568 lb-sec

If the impact change in time were 1/10 sec then the impulse force is 37 tons,

Thats 7568 lb-sec/.1sec=75680 lbs/2000= 37 tons.

As you can see from the impulse force equation the force is about the change in time.

If you use the 5 cm distance in your post then the change in time = .16 ft/43.8 ft/sec =.0036 sec

Then the impulse force would be 7568 lb-sec/.0036sec =1051 tons !

Edited April 18, 2010 by morrobay

[morrobay]

I just want to add that the change in time ,the impact time is sort of an unknown here.

If it was .23 sec then the impulse force = 7568 lb-sec/.23 sec = 32904 lbs

32904lbs/2000 lbs =16.4 tons.

Also this impulse force is right out of the book.

Its also an unknown ,or at least another problem ,how this force is going to be distributed and its particular effects in this case.

[Sisaketmike]

I pray he recovers and comes back to his senses. Not worth attempting to take your life over some argument with a girl.

I hope he'll have a speedy recovery. What a sad thing that so many are jumping, sitting in a wheel chair could be much more difficult than a stupid little bar girls' "Love you too much bla, bla,.".

I've been at the Memorial hospital after an accident, horror. Hope he's got a suicide insurance policy, good enough for Bangkok/Pattaya hospital.

Love makes blind. But people who buy sex don't buy love. There's no reason for a suicide, maybe sitting in a wheel chair, being paralyzed.

Edited April 18, 2010 by Sisaketmike

[Sisaketmike]

Too much bloody Red Bull IMHO.

"It gives you wings....."

A man has survived plunging 14 floors from an apartment block in North Queensland as he tried to climb into a locked unit.

Police say the man, in his 30s, fell around 3.30am (AEST) on Saturday and was admitted to Townsville Base Hospital in a critical condition.

It's believed he had been locked out of a unit and was attempting to scale the building.

No further information was available.

He is at least the fourth person to fall from a high-rise building in Queensland in the past 18 months.

Last month a 24-year-old man died after falling 10 floors from the balcony of a serviced apartment block in Brisbane's CBD.

In December 2008, a 22-year-old woman was talking to friends when she overbalanced and fell to her death from a fourth-floor balcony in Brisbane's inner-south.

Another man died after falling from a hotel balcony in Brisbane in October 2008.

Queensland Police and Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts has urged people to avoid scaling high rise buildings and exercise caution when on a high-rise balcony.

"This is an absolute tragedy and my thoughts and hopes are with this young man and his family during this difficult time," Mr Roberts told AAP.

"I strongly urge all Queenslanders to exercise caution when on the balcony of a high rise building.

"Stay away from the edge, act sensibly at all times and avoid excessive drinking to prevent any further accidents."

There shouldn't be high buildings for Australians. A sign outside saying: "We don't accept base jumpers without Parachutes."

I wish I could fly.

[Sisaketmike]

I pray he recovers and comes back to his senses. Not worth attempting to take your life over some argument with a girl.

I hope he'll have a speedy recovery. What a sad thing that so many are jumping, sitting in a wheel chair could be much more difficult than a stupid little bar girls' "Love you too much bla, bla,.".

I've been at the Memorial hospital after an accident, horror. Hope he's got a suicide insurance policy, good enough for Bangkok/Pattaya hospital.

Love makes blind. But people who buy sex don't buy love. There's no reason for a suicide, maybe sitting in a wheel chair, being paralyzed. The girl isn't worth a flying hit the fan thing. No more to say.

[Sisaketmike]

I just want to add that the change in time ,the impact time is sort of an unknown here.

If it was .23 sec then the impulse force = 7568 lb-sec/.23 sec = 32904 lbs

32904lbs/2000 lbs =16.4 tons.

Also this impulse force is right out of the book.

Its also an unknown ,or at least another problem ,how this force is going to be distributed and its particular effects in this case.

Is it possible that you forgot to take your medication?