Farang Annula Body Counts In Thailand

[Indo-Siam]

Interesting snippet fromStar Online:

BANGKOK: A volatile mix of Viagra, alcohol and reckless motorbike riding takes a heavy toll on Thailand's tourists, and every year hundreds fail to survive their holiday in the kingdom.

“The tourist death toll amounts to more than two Bali bomb attacks every year just from recklessness,” said Steven Martin, co-author of the Lonely Planet Thailand guide book.

“At home people wouldn't dream of having a few margaritas, renting a motorcycle without a licence and then riding around in a bikini and no helmet,'' he said. Of some 9.7 million tourists who came to Thailand last year, British citizens recorded the highest number of deaths with 148, while there were 137 from the United States, 120 from Germany and 73 from Japan.

Those are pretty surprising numbers to me - but i presume a lot of these deaths are actually retirees here, not tourists. We all have to go sometime (and someplace).

Indo-Siam

[george]

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