Maltese found dead in Bangkok hotel

[jspill]

Or perhaps heart failure from overdose of Viagra?

Never used the stuff, but do you really need it at 34 y.o. ?

It's used recreationally to enhance performance above the norm. Quite common nowadays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil#Recreational_use

[jspill]

You just have to wonder what is going on in the minds of some people.

They check into a hotel room and crank up some Heroin.

You have to wonder if the guy was a career addict or he was a first timer thinking it would be cool to do some Heroin in Thailand as part of his South East Asian adventure.

Either way it is hard to find sympathy for the all too many fools that chase the dragon and pay the price.

Cheers

Most likely an experienced cocaine user, well aware of safe dosages, but was sold white heroin.

He was found with 0.5 grams leftover after whatever amount he took. Even 0.2 grams of heroin is enough to kill, it doesn't make much sense to be carrying that much heroin at one time.

The amounts are much more consistent with him thinking he was sold cocaine.

Edited May 4, 2015 by jspill

[FredNL]

Another case solved by the RTP. Well done....

[djayz]

The body was already decomposing, so the hotel didn't do the rooms everyday ?

Those little "Do not disturb" signs are great ..

[godden]

RIP to the guy, will they be changing the mattress.

[kiwikeith]

The body was already decomposing, so the hotel didn't do the rooms everyday ?

A “no disturb” tag was hung on the doorknob

And a thanks for your wallet was hung on hisknob....

Definitely a self inflicted death, he might have gone out in the act after to much Viagra I wonder if the wallet was still there but empty? RIP

[NongKhaiKid]

Does it matter if the hotel staff didn't check on him in a timely manner? Not much they could have done to prevent him from overdosing on heroin.

It may have depending on the timeline. Maybe, just maybe they would have found him in an unconscious state and been able to get help in time.

BUT a room unchecked for 2-3 days because of a simple label on the door ?

[Beng]

RIP

[The manic]

'Regardless of a Do Not Disturb ( D.N.D) sign, hotels are legally obliged to check such D.N.D rooms by calling Guests ( Customers) if the sign is displayed for over 24 hours. ( some hotels might have shorter period i,e 18 hours) . This is s system specifically designed to ensure that such situations do not arise. If there is no response, hotel staff had the right to go to sch rooms, with management or security, to ensure there is no unforeseen incident, such as this;'

Well I wish they would tell the staff at the Nana this. They always wake me at 3:30 in b the afternoon to 'crean loom.' That being said I thought Aloft was a swish hangout. And another thing is: You don't get many stories about Maltesers anymore.

[captainhornblower]

"Pol Lt Khom Rodphao, an interrogator of Lumpini police station, was alerted at 7 pm that a foreign tourist died in a room of the Aloft Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 11 in Bangkok’s Vadhana district. He rushed to the scene with scientific crime detection officials, and a doctor of Chulalongkorn Hospital and rescuers of the Ruam Katanyu Foundation."

Why would an interrogator rush to the scene of a dead tourist?

[Bluespunk]

"Pol Lt Khom Rodphao, an interrogator of Lumpini police station, was alerted at 7 pm that a foreign tourist died in a room of the Aloft Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 11 in Bangkoks Vadhana district. He rushed to the scene with scientific crime detection officials, and a doctor of Chulalongkorn Hospital and rescuers of the Ruam Katanyu Foundation."

Why would an interrogator rush to the scene of a dead tourist?

To question the staff at the hotel?

[The manic]

Not sure if it's the same as Cambodia, but over there pure heroin (white in colour) is commonly sold as 'cocaine' (more expensive), so what would be a harmless-sized party dose of cocaine actually kills them.

The practice is thought to account for a dozen deaths in Phnom Penh every year.

Has happened in Amsterdam also. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/first-picture-young-brits-who-4710549

I wish! All the 'C' we got was lousy 'K'! Not H!

[gemguy]

You just have to wonder what is going on in the minds of some people.

They check into a hotel room and crank up some Heroin.

You have to wonder if the guy was a career addict or he was a first timer thinking it would be cool to do some Heroin in Thailand as part of his South East Asian adventure.

Either way it is hard to find sympathy for the all too many fools that chase the dragon and pay the price.

Cheers

Most likely an experienced cocaine user, well aware of safe dosages, but was sold white heroin.

He was found with 0.5 grams leftover after whatever amount he took. Even 0.2 grams of heroin is enough to kill, it doesn't make much sense to be carrying that much heroin at one time.

The amounts are much more consistent with him thinking he was sold cocaine.

Yes...more or less like that.

If he was cranking in his home country there is a very good chance he was buying Heroin with less than 10% drug content....and then..... comes to Thailand and gets the real thing....or much more concentrated and..... ooops...too much for the heart to handle.

The Heroin in Thailand is still said to be amongst the best in the world ( coming mostly from heroin labs in Burma ) being more pure and sought after as compared to the brown heroin and lower grade Heroin coming from Mexico and Columbia ...of all places .....while Afghanistan is now the worlds biggest supplier of opium sold into Europe causing an unprecedented increase in opium use and heroin use and of course opium addiction and or heroin addiction.

The social ramifications are overwhelming for the authorities in all the countries effected by a flood of Opium and Heroin into everywhere in Europe and the UK and makes its way to the USA markets also......and more so than ever before into many African nations.

Heroin still reigns supreme in the world of hard drug consumption and even perceived by many as a connoisseurs drug of choice.

Cheers

[Johnny S]

Seller of the heroin no doubt the Nigerians up Sukh - amazing they can "Work" there hazzelfree but guess someone gets a cut ....

[Basil B]

Whether they checked the room every 24hrs probably would not have made much difference in this case...

I would have thought that the main reason for checking every room every 24hrs is in case a guest has done a runner &/or trashed his room &/or using it as a drugs den.

If the dead person had been ill for a number of days and unable to summons help, then I suppose the hotel could be held responsible for failing to provide "duty of care".

Viagra and alone??? does the hotel keep records of guests? point is a witness statement from the last person to see him alive could be important evidence.

Edited May 17, 2015 by Basil B