Charmed life or optical illusion? Suicide attempt fails at Phetchaburi station

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Charmed life or optical illusion? Suicide attempt fails at Phetchaburi station

 

Picture: Video screenshot

 

BANGKOK: -- A man who laid on the tracks in front of an oncoming train at Phetchaburi station yesterday lived to tell the tale.

 

In fact he was completely unhurt despite CCTV appearing to show he must have been cut in two in the apparent suicide attempt.

 

Some Thais online commented he must have had a lot of amulets around his neck - but one news source said he had none and it was probably an optical illusion.

 

The drama was caught on two different angles of CCTV at the busy station yesterday evening.

 

In the first clip the man in a green shirt and jeans emerges from some platform plants to lie down on the track as the Thonburi to Prajuab train arrives.

 

People move away in horror not wishing to see what they deem as inevitable.

 

But in a second clip from another angle the man gets up and runs out of the station. Someone viewing the CCTV can be heard to say in Thai: "That's incredible!"

 

Thai News Agency reported that medics arrived at the station expecting to find a corpse but they found nothing. But police found the man concerned sitting by the road nearby. He is 23 year old Wirachai Nisairam from Buriram. He was largely incoherent and unable to say what had happened.

 

Locals told police that he had been wandering about the area for the last 2 or three days and had tried to harm himself before. He was rambling that he had no work and was stressed out.

 

Police took him to nearby Phra Jorm Klao Hospital where he was found to have just a slight cut on his leg and no internal injuries.

 

Doctors assessed that he was suffering from depression.

 

While sanook.com said that many people suggested he must be loaded with amulets to survive such a scare, TNA said he had nothing around his neck. TNA suggested that the first video was some kind of optical illusion.

 

Source: Thai News Agency, Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-01-13

 

 

[mtls2005]

Amulets. 

[Thaiwrath]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

While sanook.com said that many people suggested he must be loaded with amulets to survive such a scare,

 

The scary thing is that most Thais believe in this fallacy !

[canuckamuck]

Must have some part of the train pushed his legs out of the way before the wheels got him, or he pulled up his legs on his own. Peculiar way to commit suicide by train, by just having your legs on the track.

Either a trick, or a very unexpected outcome.

[tominbkk]

It's very strange - it really does look like he was run over....

[Lowryderen]

The video clearly shows that he lays down with the legs bend upwards over the track. The train is low enough that it catches his legs with the front end and push them out to the left, saving him from severed limbs. No trick or illusion, but a failed attemp of suicide, and a very lucky man. Had he laid flat, he would have lost his legs.

[Pungdo]

If you watch carefully you can see his legs being pushed aside as the train gets to him.

[freebyrd]

Ya gotta love the concern and attempts to help shown by all the "Khon Thai Jai Dee" that were watching.

[mettech]

Only in Thailand the land of smiles.

[twizzian]

Looks like no one on the platforms noticed him on the tracks, but if he succeeded his suicide attempt imagine how many mobile devices would suddenly come out of people's pockets to film the aftermath.

[ThaidaGwaii]

Magic!

[Bangkok Barry]

He jumps in front of a train that has slowed almost to a stop. Hmm. Not too bright and maybe why he had no job.

[Artisi]

Any lottery numbers showing, maybe the train number or similar. .. too good an opportunity to miss. 

[Bluespunk]

"Some Thais online commented he must have had a lot of amulets around his neck''

 

Netizens...

[mick220675]

Must have been a ghost, no other explanation. (possible vampire).

[prakhonchai nick]

He has dark long trousers on.  Look closely as his legs dangle over the track. His legs are white. Is it a stunt, or is he just a C...t?

Edited January 13, 2017 by prakhonchai nick

[wvavin]

Stoneage mentality!

[TulipBulb]

The last three digits of that train are definitely 555. I'm off to the moh doo.

[BSJ]

That's all to strange to be a coincidence!

[Top man]

I've looked at this many times, i must be stupid or something, but it looks very real to me. 

[Stupooey]

Not sure it was a suicide attempt. I reckon he had been relieving himself in the bushes, and had not yet fastened his jeans. As he crosses the railway line he appears to trip, which may have caused his jeans to drop. This would explain why the "legs" draped over the track are so flimsy. When he finally emerges and runs across the platform he does seem to be adjusting his waistband. Failing that, ask a magician how he saws someone in half.

[soalbundy]

Suffering from depression, you don't say Sherlock. He should listen to some happy songs, the great Thai speaking leader knows some.

[Colabamumbai]

And no one came to his assistance to remove him from the track, Thainess?

[optad]

1 hour ago, Colabamumbai said:

And no one came to his assistance to remove him from the track, Thainess?

 

I think it's fair to say no one on the platform witnessed the event. Authorities were alerted via CCTV, if you read the article, and he was assessed in care. 

 

You're comment about "thainess" is unwarranted even reflexive perhaps.

[ThaiWai]

21 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

 

The scary thing is that most Thais believe in this fallacy !

 

Somewhere between 63 and 84% percent of the worlds population believes in a fictitious god also so not much of a leap to tack on some magic jewelry.

[Khon Kaen Dave]

Amulets,believing in a higher power.Ghosts and things that go bump in the night.The people of faith,in the christian religion.wear crosses of a crucified carpenter.The holy trinity,is 'father,son and holy ghost' Its not so different if you look at it that way.Anybody of intelligence will admit that the Nazerine existed,due to the fact that so much is written about him.The problem that people of intelligence have is excepting that he was what he said he was.We know that Sidartha,the gotarma(Buddha) existed because so much is written about him.His principles were to try and teach people a way of living and how to reach perfect peace and harmony.I do not remember reading about the miracles that he performed,miracles that tends to make belief in the Nazerine that bit more shaky. There are other religions that say and carry out Atrocities in the name of their god,the above are not guiltless.

I do not think that religion is a good thing because it quickly becomes a money making machine as ages go by.It is also forcing the young to believe in a diety that may not even exist,by teaching it in schools.Religion is blind faith,no one has ever seen their god.

I truly believe that if people didnt have some thing to believe in,they would invent one.

[Foexie]

Come on ok. This is a fake movie.

 

First of all if it was real there would be suddenly 100+ mobiles around taking pics.

Secondly you not even see one person run away screaming or run towards the victim to see if maybe he is still alive.

[gk10002000]

He was under the train, but not under the train wheels.

[kannot]

On 1/13/2017 at 11:58 AM, Lowryderen said:

The video clearly shows that he lays down with the legs bend upwards over the track. The train is low enough that it catches his legs with the front end and push them out to the left, saving him from severed limbs. No trick or illusion, but a failed attemp of suicide, and a very lucky man. Had he laid flat, he would have lost his legs.

Rubbish its  clear proof  of God existing or  buddha  or any other one of the fantasies............sarcasm intended

[kannot]

19 hours ago, Khon Kaen Dave said:

Amulets,believing in a higher power.Ghosts and things that go bump in the night.The people of faith,in the christian religion.wear crosses of a crucified carpenter.The holy trinity,is 'father,son and holy ghost' Its not so different if you look at it that way.Anybody of intelligence will admit that the Nazerine existed,due to the fact that so much is written about him.The problem that people of intelligence have is excepting that he was what he said he was.We know that Sidartha,the gotarma(Buddha) existed because so much is written about him.His principles were to try and teach people a way of living and how to reach perfect peace and harmony.I do not remember reading about the miracles that he performed,miracles that tends to make belief in the Nazerine that bit more shaky. There are other religions that say and carry out Atrocities in the name of their god,the above are not guiltless.

I do not think that religion is a good thing because it quickly becomes a money making machine as ages go by.It is also forcing the young to believe in a diety that may not even exist,by teaching it in schools.Religion is blind faith,no one has ever seen their god.

I truly believe that if people didnt have some thing to believe in,they would invent one.

They did invent 1...................000000000 or so, and ALL "believe" theres  is "the one" hilarious