Soi Cowboy bar owner dies following Bangkok condo fall

[ezzra]

Thailand can now be ranked the first in the world for balcony's related death.... nary a day

goes by without a similar death happening to Thais and foreigners alike......

[kiwikeith]

No disrespect to the deceased but is climbing over condo balconies at 39 floors high the best way to to go about gaining entry to your condo after forgetting or losing your keys.

The guy was obviously a business man and therefore had access to money,why would you not stay in a cheap hotel for the night and or attempt to gain entry with the aid of the condo management or a lock smith.

Extremely sad way to lose your life for the sake of opening a door,could have kicked the damn thing in and replaced it as a last resort.

Suspect there is more to this than meets the eye as usual.

RIP.

A friend of mine did the same thing in Hawai, climbed up the drain pipe to get into condo after loosing keys, drain pipe gave way,gone, very sad.

Amazing things that people do sometimes.

RIP.

[konjohn]

If MARK is reading this or anyone who knows him; can you ask him to PM me.

Need to know the funeral service place/date or if Darels being flown back to the US etc

its Tel on Samui, (Mark will know who I am)

[NickJ]

I knew him fairly well. Pretty much the whole time he has been in Thailand. I know of a few people back home that will be very sad over this.................

RIP.

[davethailand]

If MARK is reading this or anyone who knows him; can you ask him to PM me.

Need to know the funeral service place/date or if Darels being flown back to the US etc

its Tel on Samui, (Mark will know who I am)

There's a memorial group been set up on FB for Darel, It only has limited members from what I can see.

Have you been added?

[Estrada]

First met him on a sky dive in Kota Kinabalu Borneo in 2001. Sorry to hear he has died. R.I.P.

[wow64]

RIP... What way to go... For such a guy

[somchaismith]

"recently posted photographs on Twitter where he alleged he had been attacked by members of staff."

Got a link?

[arrowsdawdle]

No disrespect to the deceased but is climbing over condo balconies at 39 floors high the best way to to go about gaining entry to your condo after forgetting or losing your keys.

The guy was obviously a business man and therefore had access to money,why would you not stay in a cheap hotel for the night and or attempt to gain entry with the aid of the condo management or a lock smith.

Extremely sad way to lose your life for the sake of opening a door,could have kicked the damn thing in and replaced it as a last resort.

Suspect there is more to this than meets the eye as usual.

RIP.

Who leaves a balcony entrance unlocked, even at the 39th floor? If he believed he could climb in that way, surely he believed it needed to be locked.

[arrowsdawdle]

I knew him fairly well. Pretty much the whole time he has been in Thailand. I know of a few people back home that will be very sad over this.................

RIP.

Apparently, his staff will not share that sentiment.

[arrowsdawdle]

First thing to always be checked in these incidents is insurance beneficiary, yet you never hear it mentioned.

[paddyjoe41]

very sad and many of us would do the same,thinking no prob be in there in a jiffy,so easy to make a mistake especially at that height, sounds like he was a straight up and down guy,so short of his kind nowadays.Nice to hear there are some good friends of his here to talk nice about him,RIP Darel.

[WorldTravellerMUC]

RIP Darel.

Very sad sccident, condolences to the family!

[ManilaMatt]

Hope the Mods don't let this thread get over run with the usual sarcastic/ insensitive comments.

His Friends and family could be (probably are) reading this.

:-

They are reading this!

[SOTIRIOS]

...I doubt that ANYONE would willingly decide to climb 39 floors on the outside of the building...because 'they forgot their keys'.....

...every day....more and more.....

[meom]

Hope the Mods don't let this thread get over run with the usual sarcastic/ insensitive comments.

His Friends and family could be (probably are) reading this.

:-

Too late

Yes unfortunately.

Which friends?

After staff attacked him he became pretty erratic and it seems most of his friends walked out on him.

RIP anyway.

[davethailand]

Hope the Mods don't let this thread get over run with the usual sarcastic/ insensitive comments.

His Friends and family could be (probably are) reading this.

:-

They are reading this!

For sure, I know his friends are.

[ratcatcher]

...I doubt that ANYONE would willingly decide to climb 39 floors on the outside of the building...because 'they forgot their keys'.....

...every day....more and more.....

I don't think anyone willingly climbed 39 floors outside the building. He just climbed from one neighbors apartment balcony to his and slipped?

Very sadly it would seem to be an accident.

[davethailand]

Hope the Mods don't let this thread get over run with the usual sarcastic/ insensitive comments.

His Friends and family could be (probably are) reading this.

:-

Too late

Yes unfortunately.

Which friends?

After staff attacked him he became pretty erratic and it seems most of his friends walked out on him.

RIP anyway.

Oh well that explains it all then.

[ALLSEEINGEYE]

RIP Darel, he was a character but a nice guy too.

It is a sad and unfortunate way to go.

Usually the juristic office of the building will have a key to the room. If not there is always a safer way to enter your room then scaling across balconies.

I was a bit relieved that this was not another fall from you own balcony scenario with an instant suicide tagged to it as that would have raised all sorts of doubts about how he died.

This is very sad but at least the cause of death seems to be clear. Much better than the family having to speculate about different conspiracy theories.

[lostinisaan]

Police say Darel had locked himself out of his 39th floor condo and fell after trying to climb into his room from the condo opposite.

It was whilst he was attempting to enter his condo that he fell to his death.

My sincere condolences to his relatives and friends. Not wanting to do police work, but too many foreigners die a similar death.

Of course did nobody help him to aeehh open the door. RIP mate.

[thaiduncankk]

Tragic way to go.

Would you let your neighbour, on any floor, nevermind the 39th, attempt such a thing ?

[shavedPotter]

Unfortunately I happen to know some inside information as I am good friends with people in his inner circle and how this all came to pass. Please understand my reasoning to say this is so others don’t make the same mistake and no disrespect to Darel and his family.

Last year Darel did a base jump that went terribly wrong resulting in his leg getting shattered and had nearly two dozen screws and pins put in holding it together. Stickman had a bit on it around Easter last year. Darel was not happy with the pain killers offered by the doctors so he made his own from recreational drugs. The combination of what he was taking very simply fried his brain and he became increasingly psychotic all through the last half of last year eventually resulting in permanent schizophrenia.

The new year’s eve incident when the staff at Dollhouse attacked him was when his psychotic behavior finally made a very public debut. Much of what happened next can be easily pieced together from his Facebook page reading some of his remarks that are clearly a product of schizophrenia like people making a movie about him and someone paying his staff to stay away. Also he was totally ignoring his foot injury that was a direct result of him being restrained by the police in Pattaya accidently doing some damage to one of the pins holding his foot together. The photos of his foot on his Facebook page show it was out of control with infection. If his head was on properly this infection could have been stopped easily right from the start.

Unfortunately the laws of Thailand make it very difficult for anyone to do intervention short of family or spouse and he had neither in Thailand. There was 100% effort by all of his friends to get him to where he could be helped, but Darel refused all intervention saying he was fine. Even a friend of his who was a mental health counselor was attempting to do some pro-bono work with him but that help was rejected as well.

The unfortunate reality is the Darel people knew died more than a month ago as a direct result of recreational drugs, and his body just died yesterday as a result of bad judgment also a result of those same recreational drugs. I sincerely hope this reality check will make others on the same path as Darel stop and think where it all leads.

[seancbk]

RIP mate.

[springheeled jack]

while I feel sad that this happened I think it was silly thing to do there has to be a master key in reception why someone would attempt to climb from one condo into another defies logic.

[JSixpack]

It's wise to have a system that requires manual locking on exit.

But then if you lose your key, you're locked out anyway. Probably what happened here. Next idea: keep a spare key hidden somewhere or give one to a trusted friend.

sad and unnecessary. if you're locked out of you room at my place the security guy calls a locksmith 24hrs. comes in 15 mins daytime a little longer at night - you can see these street locksmiths all over bkk. 200 baht job done.

That's cause your place has the usual cheap doors. Some security doors can't be opened by a locksmith. Or anybody else: only way would be to destroy the door and frame, not easy, could have taken a couple of days to arrange.

There's apparently much more to this story than the above article dismisses.

Rightly dismissed as irrelevant.

Usually the juristic office of the building will have a key to the room. If not there is always a safer way to enter your room then scaling across balconies.

Some owners don't trust the juristic office with their keys. Daryl sounds like he'd gotten paranoid.

And most offices close at 5 pm., though this evidently happened earlier.

Daryl was a bit of an adventurer, obviously not afraid of heights, and figured he could just go ahead and handle the problem himself quickly by climbing from the balcony next door. And he convinced his neighbor he could do it. Maybe he could have done it in his younger days.

Yes, if he were here to tell us, he'd agree in retrospect that it wasn't the best idea. Happy?

RIP.

Edited February 9, 2016 by JSixpack

[Canuk23]

All that needs to be said here is

R.I.P.

[Bluespunk]

while I feel sad that this happened I think it was silly thing to do there has to be a master key in reception why someone would attempt to climb from one condo into another defies logic.

#57 might explain his thinking at the time.

[hottrader77]

Does not matter how much money you have skydiving without a parachute is deadly , you would think someone who has the money and sense to build a business and get a very good income from it, would have more sense and would pay only 200 baht to have a locksmith come and open his door , he obviously did not value his own life for more than 200 baht i am sorry it came to this but i dont have any simpathy for someone stupid enough to attempt to climb over balconies 39 floors up , you would think he would have sold it and bought a condo on the 1st floor then any " accident, " as it is always put in thailand would result in possibly a broken arm and NOT death, i am also wondering how many times he locked himself out and attempted the same thing , what a stupid action and it shows that money does not always bring happiness as he showed 200 baht was more worth than his life.

[NCC1701A]

who wouldn't suffer from addiction and depression owing a gogo bar, couldn't think of anything worse, RIP

Different strokes for different folks I suppose.

RIP.

don't know about his addiction, but depressed people are attracted to anything to stimulate their brains.

In the case of a male it could be sex with many new partners, talking to a beautiful young girl, porn, fast cars and motorcycles, unsafe transportation, sports like skydiving, scuba diving, rock climbing, downhill skiing. Depressed people can be fascinated by doom, watching people self destruct, crashing stock markets, or warring nations and uncertainty about the future.

and your brain requires more and more stimulus, so you become more depressed over time.

most severely depressed people can't start or run a business for very long, because their negativity will sabotage their efforts, so maybe drugs are to blame in this case.