somdej Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I don't consider his survival either lucky or unlucky,.... it clearly is not yet his time to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazykopite Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I am a great believer that only the man upstairs decides when one is going to die I myself have been that close when I was serving in the military I can only think that I had a guardian angel looking over me, hope the guy fully recovers from his injuries and does not end up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICHONSTEVE Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 "Lt Col Kittipong said that Mr Hurley was due to check out of the hotel today." I think he rather fancied 'checking-out' a bit earlier than that. "Lt Col Kittipong said that Mr Hurley was due to check out of the hotel today." I think he rather fancied 'checking-out' a bit earlier than that. Rather a desperate way to avoid paying the bill don't you think!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osten Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 There was a documentary called The Bridge about Golden Gate jumpers. Many who sruvived said the same thing, but actual data iis indeed on the decline. [A lot of times people change their mind mid-air.]Pretty difficult to get data on that, I would imagine. Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using Thaivisa Connect App 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CantSpell Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 (edited) 18-20 storey hotel with balcony..... Recipe for disaster.... Nowadays in most hotel, above 3 floors, you can not even open the window: only have a fixed glass panel... Open balconies in a tourist town where 75% of visitors are all drunk daily is plain stupid Edited November 14, 2012 by CantSpell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunken Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 18-20 storey hotel with balcony..... Recipe for disaster.... Nowadays in most hotel, above 3 floors, you can not even open the window: only have a fixed glass panel... Open balconies in a tourist town where 75% of visitors are all drunk daily is plain stupid And wild guesses about the number of drunk tourists is sensible? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NelsonHubbucks Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Most luxury hotels in Hong Kong / Singapore and no doubt other south east Asian countries permanantley lock or weld shut any windows above the third floor to prevent just this sort of thing happening. Sadly the building codes here in Thailand do not think it is worth such precaution's. He must be the luckiest person "alive" now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan de Uitvreter Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 These selfish people have no regard for the safety of people they might land on. Youre so right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyWanderer Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 (edited) I am a great believer that only the man upstairs decides when one is going to die I myself have been that close when I was serving in the military I can only think that I had a guardian angel looking over me, hope the guy fully recovers from his injuries and does not end up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life Edited November 14, 2012 by metisdead : 30) Do not modify someone else's post in your quoted reply, either with font or color changes, added emoticons, or altered wording. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiangmaikelly Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Most luxury hotels in Hong Kong / Singapore and no doubt other south east Asian countries permanantley lock or weld shut any windows above the third floor to prevent just this sort of thing happening. Sadly the building codes here in Thailand do not think it is worth such precaution's. He must be the luckiest person "alive" now. A Manhattan man jumped to his death from the 42nd floor of a posh Midtown hotel early this morning — horrifying Los Angeles Angels baseball players who were boarding the team bus for Yankee Stadium.Drunk banker jumped seven floors into Singapore harbour while being filmed by a friend on a mobile for a dare (Fullerton Bay Luxury Hotel. Prominent Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung committed suicide at the hotel. On April 1, 2003 Cheung jumped from the Mandarin Oriental 24th floor. Evidence suggests he suffered from depression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ableguy Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Got to be the luckiest guy in the world . . . . if it was an accident. I knew superman was real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DocN Posted November 14, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2012 (edited) Got to be the luckiest guy in the world . . . . if it was an accident. Or the unluckiest guy in the world, if he was trying to kill himself Why would you think if he tried to commit suicide and he fail he was unlucky. You make me sick on the attitude on this, If a person is having emotional or Psychiatric problems and He /She kills them self there is no chance of help . Successful SUICIDE is final. Your humor is very sad . So many comment on here trying to be "funny" on behalf of this guy...and you pick THIS comment, to voice your outrage? If someone wants to commit suicide and made that decission to jump...and wakes up 3 days later, alive but with severe injuries that will make a live he already found unbearable even worse...what is wrong with considering him "unlucky"? I think, this is almost tragic! Next time, try one simple thing before posting: thinking! Edited November 14, 2012 by DocN 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneyjed Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 What- or whoever- made him jump doesn't change the fact that just too many foreigners "jump" down of tall buildings here. Hope he'll fully recover and no problems with hospital bills etc... Congratulations!!! Only a few posts in and we get shadowy ennuendo about people jumping form buildings. However surely the primary motivation for your post was the kind desire to wish the poor fellow well. Well that depends as I have an entirely different view point on that!If by any chance the 15 related calls were to confirm his imminent death by suicide..who cares?I know of a few people at this present moment who would give anything for good health and to live their life like everyone else...He should become a priest after this because he is surely blessed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPI Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 It has been said, by wiser heads than mine, "God protects drunks and fools" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicstuff Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Why speculate on why he came down. Is it useful or does it give better info in this. Sometimes I think that people just respond on topics for fun............................ yes.......what othyer reason would you waste time writing anything, wht other useful purpose could thetre be.l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dap Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 (edited) Got to be the luckiest guy in the world . . . . if it was an accident. Or the unluckiest guy in the world, if he was trying to kill himself That depends on how he felt about killing himself after he was airborne. A lot of times people change their mind mid-air. Although that may be true, I am really curious to know how you come by the information? Edited November 14, 2012 by Dap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiangmaikelly Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 It has been said, by wiser heads than mine, "God protects drunks and fools" Drunker or more foolish I think might be more appropriate than wiser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Got to be the luckiest guy in the world . . . . if it was an accident. Or the unluckiest guy in the world, if he was trying to kill himself That depends on how he felt about killing himself after he was airborne. A lot of times people change their mind mid-air. I am really curious to know how you come by that information? I thought he was being facetious ....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiangmaikelly Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 (edited) Got to be the luckiest guy in the world . . . . if it was an accident. Or the unluckiest guy in the world, if he was trying to kill himself That depends on how he felt about killing himself after he was airborne. A lot of times people change their mind mid-air. I am really curious to know how you come by that information? They ask the people who post on Thai Visa who have never been to Pattaya but know all about the city. A lot of good information there. Similar mindsets. Edited November 14, 2012 by chiangmaikelly 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OumarhindaOunsingha Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Maybe it is not very popular to say, but I think, that we have the free choice to saying goodbye to this world, if that is what we wish. Noone can be forced to live here. Then there are the responsibilities to one's family, etc., and that can be discussed, endlessly, I think. Then there is the discussion about what made him so depressed. The girls? Some of them surely can make a man's life unbearable, at least as long as he do not understand the culture. I have seen farangs go to the dogs in Thailand on more than one occasion, due to girls. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizardtongue Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 At last a survivor of the Thai free fall/bungee jump club, hope he can remember what happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatballs Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Why can't these guys just stay home and do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post McMagus Posted November 14, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted November 14, 2012 I wasn't going to post anything here .. but can't help myself. To those of you who have already decided it was a suicide attempt THEN chose to post comments ridiculing him... you make me want to puke ! ... and I will tell you why. A dear mate of mine, a truly nice guy once went through some terrible personal drama and gave up all desire to live. ... I was able to talk him around. But to see him in such depths of despair was truly sad. This guy in Phuket was a person, some one's son, clearly in a bad way, how dare you trivialise something like this. I've said my piece. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneyjed Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 I wasn't going to post anything here .. but can't help myself. To those of you who have already decided it was a suicide attempt THEN chose to post comments ridiculing him... you make me want to puke ! ... and I will tell you why. A dear mate of mine, a truly nice guy once went through some terrible personal drama and gave up all desire to live. ... I was able to talk him around. But to see him in such depths of despair was truly sad. This guy in Phuket was a person, some one's son, clearly in a bad way, how dare you trivialise something like this. I've said my piece. His choice and his choice only...no sympathy on here when so many people (young kids included)haven't got that choice lying in hospital wards right now..there's my two bobs worth!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerrysteve Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 18 stories, that is amazing..thank heavens he is alive. I hope his recovery is swift. I don't believe I have ever heard of anyone surviving that kind of fall. I can only wish him all the best... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wooly Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Got to be the luckiest guy in the world . . . . if it was an accident. Or the unluckiest guy in the world, if he was trying to kill himself That depends on how he felt about killing himself after he was airborne. A lot of times people change their mind mid-air. Excuse me. How do you know that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehaigh Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 he probably still had a little australian gravity on him which as you know is the other way around to us northerners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehaigh Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 18 stories, that is amazing..thank heavens he is alive. I hope his recovery is swift. I don't believe I have ever heard of anyone surviving that kind of fall. I can only wish him all the best... i think the highest survived fall was a russian air hostess that got sucked out of a plane at 29000ft and lived. she fell in some snow covered trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropo Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 [A lot of times people change their mind mid-air.] Pretty difficult to get data on that, I would imagine. If this guy recovers his insight into his thoughts and feelings mid-flight will be worth some serious scientific study. It could be extremely valuable. This could be a world record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buds189 Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 Got to be the luckiest guy in the world . . . . if it was an accident. Or the unluckiest guy in the world, if he was trying to kill himself That depends on how he felt about killing himself after he was airborne. A lot of times people change their mind mid-air. How could you say that. Have you talked to a person right as they leap off a building? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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