Thai man suffocated after sniffing his bike's petrol tank

 

Image: CH7

 

NAKHON PATHOM: -- Police say that a Thai man in Nakorn Pathom suffocated after he sniffed gasoline in his motorbike's petrol tank.

 

They say he passed out after creating a vacuum and died of lack of oxygen.

 

Phokaew police and medics who went to the house of Pradap Prakhonchai, 45, a vegetable trader, found him sitting on a chair Tuesday evening with his face leaning forward buried in the opening of his motorcycle's under-seat gas tank.

 

He had been dead around eight hours.

 

Police learnt that Pradap was a substance abuse sniffer and think that he sniffed the vapour from the gas tank before he went out to work selling vegetables on his bike. They said that he breathed in so deeply that he created a vacuum and passed out attached to the gas tank.

 

He died from the resulting suffocation, they said.

 

Source: CH7

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-08-24

 

A clear contender for the top spot of this year's Darwin award.

A lifting of the spirit...

25 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

A clear contender for the top spot of this year's Darwin award.

Just one more cleansing of the gene pool.

very sad

6 minutes ago, alofthailand said:

very sad

What addiction does with people.

 

So he did not even have the sense to breath in through his nose,

and blow air out of his mouth to release the vacuum,the things

people get up to amazes me.

regards worgeordie
 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

They said that he breathed in so deeply that he created a vacuum and passed out attached to the gas tank.

And then he forgot to breathe out.

Should have worn a helmet.

Full faced.

Snuffing Petrol; not expensive, but an extremely bad idea.

Seems like he went quietly though to more enlightened skies.

 

( Note to self: add to webdictionary. Superlative of Sniffing : Snuffing )

 

one sucker every day

 

1 hour ago, alofthailand said:

very sad

a desperate act totally wrong RIP

30 minutes ago, KKr said:

Snuffing Petrol; not expensive, but an extremely bad idea.

Seems like he went quietly though to more enlightened skies.

 

( Note to self: add to webdictionary. Superlative of Sniffing : Snuffing )

impurities can lead to blindness besides other complications. some people take the easy way out indeed.

Or the report is wrong and he just passed out in that position. No vacuum required. 

He was pushed!!

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13 minutes ago, Trujillo said:

Or the report is wrong and he just passed out in that position. No vacuum required. 

More likely scenario.

37 minutes ago, Trujillo said:

Or the report is wrong and he just passed out in that position. No vacuum required. 

 

Leave it alone. The vacuum theory helps redirect from the sad truth.   

I am just impressed that he could create a vaccum while sniffing gas.

It must have been a very simple one.

1 hour ago, Trujillo said:

Or the report is wrong and he just passed out in that position. No vacuum required. 

More than likely as creating a vacuum would  take a bit of intelligence which seems to be lacking. 

Poor chap , maybe the fuel gauge didn't work and he was seeing if he had any gas left .

Ahhh,Petrol. is there no end to its many uses?

Probably not a real loss to anybody........ Thought he would get a 'high envn though he didn't have any glue to sniff.......... What a waste these Thai young guys are........... not pitiful.......

He probably wasn't contributing anything to the girls he made babies with anyway.....

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Sometimes the crazy statements coming from the police as to the reasons for a person's demise would better to be left in the  'vacuum'  in their heads.

 

 

 

 

The withdrawal of vapour causing a vacuum is a common problem. That is why petrol sniffers are recommended to only do so with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

Don't know if I buy the "created a vacuum" portion of the story since it's hard to create a good vacuum for any length of time without a really good, air tight seal.    Hard to image the irregular surface & shape of your mouth/nose being able to hold a vacuum on the fuel tank inlet.  But I could see him passing-out due to associated medical reasons from the chronic sniffing and then the fumes causing respiratory failure after X-minutes.

On 8/24/2016 at 2:09 PM, DrTuner said:

A clear contender for the top spot of this year's Darwin award.

45 years old so probably has several kids already. his genetics will most probably live on.

The cynicism exhibited here is quite amazing but not surprising & hardly any sympathy going out for the man & his family whom, most likely, none of you could possibly know. Phrases such as "Darwin award" & "it could not have been a Thai" (which became very popular after Kho Tao) are becoming extremely tiresome & show a lack of imagination IMO.