Man dies from electric shock while fishing in Phuket
Darawan Naknakhon

The 300 metre long wire which was found in the victim's hand.

PHUKET: A man was killed yesterday (November 18) at Jungle Bungee Jump in Kathu after taking cables with him to go fishing, but ended up killing himself instead.

At 8.45am, Thungthong police and others arrived at the scene and found the victim, Suchart Chanaprasert, 36, from Nakorn Sri Thammarat, floating in the pond face up.

He was found with a small lamp (head light) on his head and in his left hand was the 300 metre long electrical wire he had used to try and electrocute the fish. There was a large burn on his hand from where he was electrocuted.

Police said the victim had been dead for no longer than five hours. His body was retrieved out of the pond by relatives, before being sent to Vachira Hospital for further tests.

After questioning the victim’s relatives, police learned that Suchart had trespassed into the area to go fishing and plugged the wire into the electrical outlet in the facility before heading to the pond to fish.

Police said, “It appears that the wire had leaked through the insulation on the cable which caused the electric shock.”

The victim either fell into the pond by mistake or simply forgot to turn off the electricity before going inside the pond to collect the fish he had killed.

The victim's family went looking for him after noticing that he had never come home.

Source: http://www.thephuketnews.com/man-dies-from-electric-shock-while-fishing-in-phuket-49726.php

-- Phuket News 2014-11-19

Darwin award??

A volunteer.

Fishing with electric current - unbelievable.

Fishing with electric current - unbelievable.

Maybe after eels.

That's innovative. I would have never thought that it would be possible to collect deep fried fish directly from the pond.

Bright spark he was.

Fishing with electric current - unbelievable.

fishing with electric current is very common in thailand, they go to different areas and just kill every living thing in the water then move to the next area.

I suppose he was just being flash

Stick with the fly just watch the overhead power lines and put an earth spike into the ground from your reel.

What an idiot! I hope all his buddies learn from this. RIP

Probably looking for scAMPy

Thinning of the herd.

Give a man a fish a day.....Teach a man to fish and he goes and electrocute himself....

Fishing with electric current - unbelievable.

Shocking!

What an idiot! I hope all his buddies learn from this. RIP

To make sure they are wearing their amulets before walking into a pond carrying 220?

well he was someone's father and someone's son and someones husband - so RIP

Probably looking for scAMPy

Bad OHM men.

well he was someone's father and someone's son and someones husband - so RIP

They can meet for prayer at the WATT.

Give a man a fish a day.....Teach a man to fish and he goes and electrocute himself....

Biblical history meets current events.

Similar to dynamiting coral reefs. Shame they don't blow themselves up.

I wonder if he took a selfie

"The victim either fell into the pond by mistake or simply forgot to turn off the electricity before going inside the pond to collect the fish he had killed"

I can not believe what I have just read; Simply unbelievable

Thais seem to do a lot of "While-e-Coyote" type things and this is not an isolated incident. Meep Meep

No dis to the dead RIP

Sounds like he got a shock when he was trying to Tuna in his radio

justice has been done

trespassing to pinch fish

case closed

Sounds like he got a shock when he was trying to Tuna in his radio

That's a lotta crab, no trout about it. He was recharging his eel when he fell off his perch and jumped in the pond on porpoise, just for the halibut.

well he was someone's father and someone's son and someones husband - so RIP

Yeah I know, but you gotta laugh

They took him to the hospital the Sturgeon said it was too late

That was not the smartest sheep in the paddock .