Briton Falls To His Death At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel

[anon467367354]

maybe yaa baa. from I hear it's nothing to mess with. Might be the most available "cheap" buzz on the street. RIP

[Neonben]

No lift from VIP suite?

[w11guy]

Unless this guy was doing a stunt for a Spiderman movie, then there are an awful lot of facts missing from this report.

What is the point of it if there is only part of the story?

The point is that it is interesting news that people like to read. If we waited until all the facts were available many stories would never be reported because all the facts sometimes don't become available. I can't really see the point of your comment.

[LTGTR]

<deleted>? Why would someone climb down the outside of a building?

He lost his key?

[Bedrockguesthouse]

<deleted>? Why would someone climb down the outside of a building?

the lifts were out

[w11guy]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

What utter rubbish you write. The man was on business and wasn't a tourist. Business people often stay in VIP rooms. The case isn't open and shut; the investigation is still going on. He had been drinking. Maybe he was stressed with work and drunk and didn't really know what he was doing. There could be lots of explnations. That's why the police are investigating.

[welsh1]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

Ohhh dear, very anti-police. They must be responsible for everything.

I guess when you are an expert arm-chair detective yourself it must be very hard to have any police meet your high investigative standards.

Anyway, I dont want to hold you up, another episode of CSI starts shortly

Bring back Colombo & Ironside ..2 of the best detectives ever

[w11guy]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

Ohhh dear, very anti-police. They must be responsible for everything.

I guess when you are an expert arm-chair detective yourself it must be very hard to have any police meet your high investigative standards.

Anyway, I dont want to hold you up, another episode of CSI starts shortly

Bring back Colombo & Ironside ..2 of the best detectives ever

They would have it sorted out right away. I didn't think there was anyone still alive who remembers ironside. LOL. Are you from Wales?

[Thai at Heart]

Climbed down the outside of a glass building? If you look at pictures of the place, there is a huge overhang from the roof?

Somehow, the odds that this guy all of a sudden had the urge to become an amateur spiderman are pretty remote. Of course stranger things have happened, but I would hope that the BIB can come up with a better story than this.

[Tropicalevo]

The Bangkok Post states that he "died after falling from the 8th floor".

No one saw him fall. He is named as James Edward Smith. RIP.

[david555]

<deleted>? Why would someone climb down the outside of a building?

Drunk, High, Sick, Escaping, Exercising, Bad dream and etc etc

prouving he has beeing S.A.S to GF ??

[kuffki]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

What utter rubbish you write. The man was on business and wasn't a tourist. Business people often stay in VIP rooms. The case isn't open and shut; the investigation is still going on. He had been drinking. Maybe he was stressed with work and drunk and didn't really know what he was doing. There could be lots of explnations. That's why the police are investigating.

Really people on business often stay in VIP rooms? What company do you work for?

Can you please post an update once the case has been concluded and no foul play has been found.

Yes a stressed 30 year old drinks few beers then because of stress he climbs outside and because of stress starts to climb the building and of course he was so drunk that he did not know what is vertical and what is horizontal.

H was so drunk that he managed to climb 4 floor but then fell.

You considered joining volunteer police? with your theory's all the cases will be solved in a much shorter period of time.

[neverdie]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

What utter rubbish you write. The man was on business and wasn't a tourist. Business people often stay in VIP rooms. The case isn't open and shut; the investigation is still going on. He had been drinking. Maybe he was stressed with work and drunk and didn't really know what he was doing. There could be lots of explnations. That's why the police are investigating.

You have spotted his rubbish well. Its his true to form stuff. The cops get the blame for everything and are always wrong. Ohh and if they mess with this poster he just sues them .

You point out something blatently obvious to most rational people. Investigations arnt just completed in a matter of mintues, sometimes they can take months, years even, there are so many variables. Some people here think most things can be sorted just like they are on TV, results within seconds just by clicking a mouse on a computer screen or throwing some fingerprinting powder around.

Also, its not always in the best interest for the Police to spill out all the details of every investigation to the media, just to keep the general public informed, perhaps that never crossed the mind of the armchair detective either. BUT it might explain why perhaps some of the details here are lacking, its a newspaper report and perhaps highly unimportant in the grand scale of things.

RIP to the deceased, hopefully the full facts to his demise are known to the people that count, such as his family and friends.

[tweezer]

The Bangkok Post states that he "died after falling from the 8th floor".

Hmmm... according to the breaking news alert email I just received from Thai Visa, he jumped.

Does TV know somthing more?

Edited August 24, 2010 by tweezer

[animatic]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

Ohhh dear, very anti-police. They must be responsible for everything.

I guess when you are an expert arm-chair detective yourself it must be very hard to have any police meet your high investigative standards.

Anyway, I dont want to hold you up, another episode of CSI starts shortly

Bring back Colombo & Ironside ..2 of the best detectives ever

They would have it sorted out right away. I didn't think there was anyone still alive who remembers ironside. LOL. Are you from Wales?

Naw, bring back Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebbs!

[w11guy]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

What utter rubbish you write. The man was on business and wasn't a tourist. Business people often stay in VIP rooms. The case isn't open and shut; the investigation is still going on. He had been drinking. Maybe he was stressed with work and drunk and didn't really know what he was doing. There could be lots of explnations. That's why the police are investigating.

Check your facts. He didn't climb down. He jumped or he fell. It's easily done if you are drunk.

Really people on business often stay in VIP rooms? What company do you work for?

Can you please post an update once the case has been concluded and no foul play has been found.

Yes a stressed 30 year old drinks few beers then because of stress he climbs outside and because of stress starts to climb the building and of course he was so drunk that he did not know what is vertical and what is horizontal.

H was so drunk that he managed to climb 4 floor but then fell.

You considered joining volunteer police? with your theory's all the cases will be solved in a much shorter period of time.

[Tropicalevo]

Deleted - duplicate sorry

Edited August 24, 2010 by Tropicalevo

[kuffki]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

What utter rubbish you write. The man was on business and wasn't a tourist. Business people often stay in VIP rooms. The case isn't open and shut; the investigation is still going on. He had been drinking. Maybe he was stressed with work and drunk and didn't really know what he was doing. There could be lots of explnations. That's why the police are investigating.

Check your facts. He didn't climb down. He jumped or he fell. It's easily done if you are drunk.

Really people on business often stay in VIP rooms? What company do you work for?

Can you please post an update once the case has been concluded and no foul play has been found.

Yes a stressed 30 year old drinks few beers then because of stress he climbs outside and because of stress starts to climb the building and of course he was so drunk that he did not know what is vertical and what is horizontal.

H was so drunk that he managed to climb 4 floor but then fell.

You considered joining volunteer police? with your theory's all the cases will be solved in a much shorter period of time.

He fell from the 4th floor but stayed on the 8th floor, according to some reports

Edited August 24, 2010 by kuffki

[jfchandler]

I think the one thing that's clear here is... nobody who's talking publicly as yet really knows much of anything about exactly how he died... And if anyone does really know, they're not saying it publicly as yet.

So in the meantime, the endless speculation and guessing by TV members is pretty pointless.

It's pretty easy for the Thai police to conclude he jumped, because that means no suspects and the case is closed, and they can get on about their business of handing out driving citations, and not "waste their time" with a dead farang.

Whether the Brit did really jump or not, and why, are questions that remain to be answered.

[welsh1]

Ohhh BIB and their detective skills.

Case open and shut and all under 60 mins and still have time for lunch.

Clearly guy had the money to check into VIP room, clearly he was not an expat to stay at At Novotel Suvarnabhumi Hotel, so why would someone with money, a tourist at the age of 30 climb outside???

RIP to his family.

Ohhh dear, very anti-police. They must be responsible for everything.

I guess when you are an expert arm-chair detective yourself it must be very hard to have any police meet your high investigative standards.

Anyway, I dont want to hold you up, another episode of CSI starts shortly

Bring back Colombo & Ironside ..2 of the best detectives ever

They would have it sorted out right away. I didn't think there was anyone still alive who remembers ironside. LOL. Are you from Wales?

Born and bread .....hey im only 43 ..but true in all my years they never failed to solve a crime

[whybother]

He fell from the 4th floor but stayed on the 8th floor, according to some reports

From the OP.

Smith reportedly went to the rooftop on the eighth floor before climbing down the building's glass windows until he reached the fourth floor when he fell.

The OP also says he was staying on the 2nd floor.

Ofcourse, other reports might state something different.

[Ferry]

very strange why most farangs die from/by fall from balcony in Pattay and other tourists places ??? or has someone helped a little bit like usual in Thailand.

Ferry - Belgium

[iono]

the guy was possibly being detained at the hotel and tried to get out.

Bingo!!! Where do we think these Tom Cruise, James Bond, an Mr Bean movies come from? Actual life!!! Rip to the Brit

[elcent]

could it be that this young man was in the timber business? That is what I found on Google search. A pretty young company founded in 2009 and a fired director in Feb. 2010.

[canuckamuck]

Lets see no one saw it, but they know he fell from the 4th and not the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th?

That is a very unusual thing to know from examining a body.

rubbish police report and journalism as usual.

[whybother]

Lets see no one saw it, but they know he fell from the 4th and not the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th?

That is a very unusual thing to know from examining a body.

rubbish police report and journalism as usual.

Maybe someone saw when he screamed as he lost his grip.

Or maybe there were finger marks on the windows from the 8th down to the 4th floor.

Or maybe the whole story isn't being reported, and, as usual, TVF posters are jumping to conclusions.

[canuckamuck]

Lets see no one saw it, but they know he fell from the 4th and not the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th?

That is a very unusual thing to know from examining a body.

rubbish police report and journalism as usual.

Maybe someone saw when he screamed as he lost his grip.

Or maybe there were finger marks on the windows from the 8th down to the 4th floor.

Or maybe the whole story isn't being reported, and, as usual, TVF posters are jumping to conclusions.

The only conclusion I jumped to is that the report was inadequate. The big question in everybody's mind is why was he climbing down the outside of a building or why did they say he was. The very least thing the press should have ascertained was why do the police believe he was climbing and why they think he fell from the fourth. Those two issues are newsworthy and obviously someone knows the answer to them. Lazy journos haven't got a clue

[rich54321]

this stuff gets dafter !!!!!!? why? was he spiderman? What the hel_l is his family going to think if he really did climb down? <BR>Again all the reporting is nonesense!

Edited August 24, 2010 by rich54321

[sunanta]

&lt;deleted&gt;? Why would someone climb down the outside of a building?

anybody else suspisious of how many foreigners are going out windows in central thailand

[seanocasey]

what we need is a good detective.

rip to the deceased