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[Buff-horns]

US resident jumps to his death in Jomtien

Boonlua Chatree

A US resident jumped to his death from the 10th floor of a condominium block in Soi Wat Boonkanjanaram just after midnight on July 12.

Police from the Dongtan sub-branch arrived at the scene to find the body of Craig Byron Briggs, age 60, from New Jersey, USA. The body was taken to the forensic institute for examination.

Officers inspected Briggs’s room to find the door had been locked from the inside. They forced an entry but could find no signs of foul play or anything out of order.

Police later questioned the dead man’s wife, Chonthiya Oonmuang, 38, who explained she was out at the time, working at the nearby market as a vendor. She rushed home when she heard the news.

Chonthiya said they had been together for some time and that Briggs was under stress due to financial problems. She said he would often go out drinking.

Police have informed the US Embassy of Briggs’s death.

www.pattayamial.com

[Boon Mee]

Yep...them 'ol 'financial problems' will get you every time...

Should've had the wife take a second job.

[Nam Kao]

Financial problems = Family scavengers harassing the poor bugger til he ......

[IvanLaw]

Financial problems = Family scavengers harassing the poor bugger til he ......

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Nam kao

Craig was I relation of my second wife.

You obviously know more about what happened to him.

If you would please give further information I will pass on to the family.

I am sure they would be very grateful to know more from you in what is a very distressing time for them.

Thank you & Regards

Ivan

[Braccobaldo]

..amen..

[Rumpole]

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Edited July 23, 2005 by Rumpole

[davethailand]

Financial problems = Family scavengers harassing the poor bugger til he ......

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Your sure of this?

How many farangs here run out of money because of drinking, partying, girls etc etc?

[IvanLaw]

Financial problems = Family scavengers harassing the poor bugger til he ......

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Nam Kao

On your Header you say you are from Dan Sai, Not sure how you know Craig but His family will be happy to contact you to know more about the background leading to his demise.

Please take a few minutes to reply

Regards

Ivan

Edited July 23, 2005 by IvanLaw

[IvanLaw]

Financial problems = Family scavengers harassing the poor bugger til he ......

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Nam Kao

On your Header you say you are from Dan Sai, Not sure how you know Craig but His family will be happy to contact you to know more about the background leading to his demise.

Please take a few minutes to reply

Regards

Ivan

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Nam Kao

No reply,

I hope your comments where not just generalisations based on your own past experiences?

If so, I hope your problems are now resolved.

Good luck with your future.

Regards

Ivan

Edited July 23, 2005 by IvanLaw

[Jeffery Stanthorpe]

Me personally,

I would have taken a drug overdose ie xanax or something like that. i believe you die quite peacefully, obviously i have not attempted this. It also leaves less mess i guess. (as long as you are discovered quicky)

I suppose you could try consuling or something like that first as it is a one way ticket after all.

Anyway, very sad for all involved, they should pray as this can help.

[britmaveric]

Me personally,

I would have taken a drug overdose ie xanax or something like that. i believe you die quite peacefully, obviously i have not attempted this. It also leaves less mess i guess. (as long as you are discovered quicky)

I suppose you could try consuling or something like that first as it is a one way ticket after all. 

Anyway, very sad for all involved, they should pray as this can help.

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[chechoie]

Jumping off balconies seems to be the preferred method of suicide in Pattaya.

I suspect, like most people that a lot of these suicides are in fact killings or accidents due to too much booze.

I actually saw one suicide in Pattaya, me and several dozen people as it happens.

He wasn’t a jumper, this guy wanted an audience.

I worked in Pattaya for two years, installing the lifts in the Ambassador Hotel in Jomtien, ( no, I didn’t drag the job out because I wanted to stay longer, the builder was really slow, honest!).

I was walking down what is now walking street in Pattaya, in 93 I think it was, about 9pm, with a lady who is now my wife, when she suddenly pulled me to the side.

I thought &lt;deleted&gt;, and then I seen what see was on about.

This guy, young guy, about 26 or so, was walking down the middle of the street stabbing himself in the chest with a large vicious looking knife.

He was covered in blood and was shouting something, couldn’t make out what it was.

People where scattering all around, it was quite a sight. He was walking quite quickly and when I clocked him he was about 100yards up from the police box at the T junction, where the south road meets the beach road.

Anyway he breaks into a trot at this point and then he starts running all the while sticking this knife into himself. He runs onto the pier, (it was an old wooden rickety thing then), and runs straight into the sea.

We saw them pulling his body out of the water some hours later, on the local news, (used to get the Sophon news channel all night back then).

The talk around town later was that he had bought a house and a bar for sometime bird and when she got all she thought she could get she introduced the Thai husband to him and told him to ###### off basically.

I’ve seems dead people before but that was the first and only time I have witnessed a suicide. Not a pretty sight.

This guy’s situation was different from the usual old farang fed up with life and disillusioned with the paradise he’d thought he’d found.

Pattaya can be very depressing in the low season when it’s pissing it down with rain and I could see an old burn out guy taking this option in a situation like that but this was a young guy with a lot to live for. He would have got over being taken for a mug eventually, live and learn as they say.

Just goes to show, don’t know what will make people snap.

[Davey]

Me personally,

I would have taken a drug overdose ie xanax or something like that. i believe you die quite peacefully, obviously i have not attempted this. It also leaves less mess i guess. (as long as you are discovered quicky)

I suppose you could try consuling or something like that first as it is a one way ticket after all. 

Anyway, very sad for all involved, they should pray as this can help.

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Thanks, I'll erm, take that into account if I ever decide to kill myself?

[Thaiquila]

I still think there is a business opportunity for someone here.

The Happy Endings Motel. Only one floor. Pharmacist on site.

Last meals served and joiners welcome.

[Nam Kao]

Financial problems = Family scavengers harassing the poor bugger til he ......

Ivanlaw, I dont know him. sorry i meant to write "usually"

No offence meant.

regards

Nam

Edited July 24, 2005 by Nam Kao

[IvanLaw]

Financial problems = Family scavengers harassing the poor bugger til he ......

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Ivanlaw, I dont know him. sorry i meant to write "usually"

No offence meant.

regards

Nam

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No Problem,

I eventually presumed that it was a flippant, off the cuff remark.

Written without too much thought but with no malice intended.

Good to hear you are Ok

As I previously wrote:

(I hope your comments where not just generalisations based on your own past experiences?

If so, I hope your problems are now resolved.)

Thank you for taking the time to reply

Regards

Ivan

[Nam Kao]

Thanks Ivan

nam