Unidentified farang drowns at Pattaya beach

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Unidentified farang drowns at Pattaya beach

PATTAYA: -- An unidentified western man was found drowned off the Pattaya Beach at 2:30 am Tuesday. The man appeared to be about 55 to 60 years old, police said. Both of his wrists suffered cuts.

Police said a Thai man, Athidet Sanamthong, 19, spotted the body about 30 metres off the beach while he was fishing so he reel it in.

Witnesses told police the man was seen drinking beer and walking around the beach before walking into the sea.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Unidentified-farang-downs-at-Pattaya-beach-30245919.html


-- The Nation 2014-10-21

[Rimmer]

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[NeverSure]

Cuts to wrist. Suicide. Done and dusted.

RIP.

Edited October 21, 2014 by NeverSure

[iReason]

A "Farang" eh?

[globalmedia8]

Cuts to wrist. Suicide. Done and dusted.

RIP.

depends who cut his wrists

[harrycallahan]

"Athidet Sanamthong, 19, spotted the body about 30 metres off the beach while he was fishing so he reel it in"

I take it the literal interpretation of this is not correct.

[aboctok]

"Athidet Sanamthong, 19, spotted the body about 30 metres off the beach while he was fishing so he reel it in"

I take it the literal interpretation of this is not correct.

I take it the only plausible interpretation of this must be what it means.

[AnotherOneAmerican]

Cuts on the wrists from a boat propellor.

[petercool]

TWO insensitive posts removed. This article is about a death and silly comments are inappropriate.

petercool - moderator team

[murphya33]

Many of them hanging out on Jomtien Beach too. Drinking beer and shouting all day. Just a matter of time

[irishsmile]

Still very sad that another life has been tragically lost no matter the circumstances or cause, RIP .

[ggt]

Stories like this are so depressing...RIP friend...

[bartobar]

he loved the sea i guess , so he walked in to ???????

When will falangs learn that here is not the west where honesty is a routine thing.

Welcome to LOS.....

[Benmart]

RIP Dear Man.

[catweazle]

Find it quite disturbing that the headline reads "farang"... sounds like "unidentified piece of trash drows..."

Would it be too much to ask that at least the media that has a foreign, non-Thai background could refer to us kindly as "foreigners" please?

RIP to the victim and condolences to family and friends by the way...

Edited October 21, 2014 by catweazle

[jacko45k]

Find it quite disturbing that the headline reads "farang"... sounds like "unidentified piece of trash drows..."

Would it be too much to ask that at least the media that has a foreign, non-Thai background could refer to us kindly as "foreigners" please?

RIP to the victim and condolences to family and friends by the way...

I agree, it almost sounds callous. The next line does say 'western man'.

It sounds tragic and sad.

[Strangebrew]

RIP

[sangfroid]

Find it quite disturbing that the headline reads "farang"... sounds like "unidentified piece of trash drows..."

Would it be too much to ask that at least the media that has a foreign, non-Thai background could refer to us kindly as "foreigners" please?

RIP to the victim and condolences to family and friends by the way...

Yes, he was only a Farang.

[noteconomicallyviable]

another falang bites the dust.

RIP

[joepattaya1961]

Find it quite disturbing that the headline reads "farang"... sounds like "unidentified piece of trash drows..."

Would it be too much to ask that at least the media that has a foreign, non-Thai background could refer to us kindly as "foreigners" please?

RIP to the victim and condolences to family and friends by the way...

According to the Thai law we're "aliens".

Somehow I'll rather stick to "farang"

[greenchair]

Wasn't there just a case that the locals said a guy was walking around drunk and walked into the sea.

Could that be rope marks.

Another case for csi.

Rip