Not necessarily that it's greed. Is the youth, lack of education and poverty. Poor guy.
We need to find those who invented it and punish.
The whole story reminded me of a passage in a book of some English author: as the rich in the omnibus said that if a beggar boy will not leave, they will give him a coin. Very sad.

Can anyone enlighten me what is this about???

What a tragic waste of a young life.
Yet again you see greed overcoming any thoughts about safety.

Yes, likely coupled with pure ignorance of electrical, especially those "big wires high up on poles" .

15 hours ago, tracker1 said:

Nice gesture to give the family the money their son died for 

A better gesture would be to award the survivors the entire amount promised. 

18 hours ago, colinneil said:

What a tragic waste of a young life.

Yet again you see greed overcoming any thoughts about safety.

I am so sad for him and his family.  I think it is fair to say, "NEED" instead of "GREED".

Greed or neediness, I can't say what motivated. No excuse to dangle the carrot tho.

20 hours ago, chopin2 said:

What greed can do to men....

It's sad that a man is so poor that he's prepared to risk his life for a not huge, even to a Thai, potential payday.

 

20 years old....what a waste and so sad.

 

Ignorance of the danger of electricity, so remote from that 2 pin wall socket, may well have been a factor.

Edited June 8, 20179 yr by F4UCorsair

5 hours ago, wvavin said:

Can anyone enlighten me what is this about???

The post above yours?

 

Beats me.

Can anyone enlighten me what is this about???

About 6 large Changs I should say !!

9 hours ago, anto said:

Muppet ? whats that ? He was just a guy with no knowledge of the danger involved ,in collecting his pot of Gold .

High voltage cables, give it a rest man, and while we are at it he was not alone, a whole cast of MUPPETS

Have a nice day

16 hours ago, IMA_FARANG said:

There are those in Thailand for who a few hundred Baht is a real lifesaver.

Worth  loosing your life for.

Just be glad if you are not one of them.

 

Well he did have 2000 Baht to hire a vehicle didn't he? I feel for the people your refer to (I don't think this guy was one of them though).

15 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Would be an even nicer gesture for the company that released the balloons to give the family the promised 9,999 baht.

 

Good PR and good for the family. Not sure if companies do things like that in Thaialnd.

What 9,999 baht, do you think Thai companies are stupid?

23 hours ago, Ralf61 said:

Completely agree. I know people who have to get by with a 5,000THB-bucks a month (not a day), and we start nagging in the rare case our monthly wad is less than 6 digits or so...

 

23 hours ago, steven100 said:

what is 5,000 THB-bucks    ?   I haven't come across THB-bucks before  ?

Nore a s digit income!

13 hours ago, maxcorrigan said:

You mean a buzz!

But he was short changed.. Or is that charged? 

Edited June 9, 20179 yr by Artisi

15 hours ago, garbolino said:

thanks but I do not drink it so will NOT be buying any...

Think you made that point clear in your previous post, and you did infer your interest in the price - so what's the  problem? 

Oooh, there are some nasty sanctimonious posts on this thread.

3 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Oooh, there are some nasty sanctimonious posts on this thread.

Care to do the old Thailand staple and actually point them out

You cant make this stuff up , after all TIT:  

But why didn't he wear some sort of protection like gloves to protect himself , he knew he was on a dangerous mission right ?

 

On 2017-6-8 at 4:21 AM, Ricardo said:

TANSTAAFL 

covfefe

 

On 6/8/2017 at 0:58 PM, Get Real said:

I am sure they are very happy to receive 825 THB!

Yes there was a ''shortage'' what can they expect.

17 hours ago, balo said:

You cant make this stuff up , after all TIT:  

But why didn't he wear some sort of protection like gloves to protect himself , he knew he was on a dangerous mission right ?

 

33000 volts is going to go straight through any dishwashing gloves

On ‎6‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 6:57 PM, colinneil said:

What a tragic waste of a young life.

Yet again you see greed overcoming any thoughts about safety.

 

Besides being the LOS it is also the LO GREED......

On 6/8/2017 at 8:57 AM, colinneil said:

What a tragic waste of a young life.

Yet again you see greed overcoming any thoughts about safety.

I would not call it greed but surviving. 

Pretty rough but I once saw an enormous punch up of nearly 250,000 people one day on the outskirts on Bangkok. I just got bigger and bigger, over 100,000 people died after they got beat up and that was only after an argument broke out about 2 Baht 50 Satang. 

4 hours ago, Deserted said:

Pretty rough but I once saw an enormous punch up of nearly 250,000 people one day on the outskirts on Bangkok. I just got bigger and bigger, over 100,000 people died after they got beat up and that was only after an argument broke out about 2 Baht 50 Satang. 

W.T.F.

8 hours ago, anto said:

W.T.F.

It is an instinctive reaction to all the inane posts on this thread.

what is 5,000 THB-bucks    ?   I haven't come across THB-bucks before  ?

Is that all you can comment?!?!

Just now, Na Lee said:

Is that all you can comment?!?!

yes ... I know THB ,  and bucks ....  but I don't recall THB-bucks 

Not to mention utter stupidity!

You think greed and stupidity is all to it. ? What about need for a lot of extra cash to this family, to you it's nibbits with a monthly income of 6 or 7 digits.

Hereabouts they send a monkey up to pick the coconuts...

This monkey goes by the name fatdrunketc. Perhaps?