Phuket lifeguards save drunk Singaporean from drowning
Phuket Gazette

PHUKET: -- A Singaporean tourist who spent hours relaxing and drinking on the beach at Cherng Talay yesterday afternoon was rescued by Phuket lifeguards after he attempted to go for a swim.

Lai Yeohchai, 23, was pulled from the water conscious, but drunk, at about 3:55pm, one of the lifeguards at Surin Beach told the Phuket Gazette.

“He sat on the beach and drank for hours before going in the water,” the lifeguard said.

“He was hit by big waves and dragged away. I saw it from the beach guard tower and called for another lifeguard to help me rescue him,” he said.

“We finally pulled him out of the water. He was conscious, but very drunk,” the lifeguard added.

Mr Lai was taken to Thalang Hospital, where staff told the Gazette that he was safe.

“He was kept at the hospital until it was safe for him to be discharged,” a hospital staffer said.

Source: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket_news/2013/Phuket-lifeguards-save-drunk-Singaporean-from-drowning-22279.html


-- Phuket Gazette 2013-09-19

Thanks to the life guards. Another foolish foreigners life saved by a Thai that has done their job well.

Well done. The guy should of known dont get drunk and go into the water to start with, but there you go...

Good to see a well written story with appropriate headline describing the good work Thais are doing for us farangs and others. We mostly read about the bad guys.

Well done and credit to the lifeguards.

In Asia old legend told us that some unrest spirits will take new life which in bad luck or drunk to replaced them so that they can go out from that place.

Glad to hear he was rescued by the vigilant lifeguards. Swimming, boating and driving certainly don't mix well.

Let us hope this young man learned from this near fatal experience.

Glad to hear he was rescued by the vigilant lifeguards. Swimming, boating and driving certainly don't mix well.

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Glad to hear he was rescued by the vigilant lifeguards. Swimming, boating and driving certainly don't mix well.

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Supposedly there was a "drinking" in there but it got lost in the plain boredom of the comment.