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LIMP1
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The bodies of an Australian man and his American friend have been found slumped together on the floor of a guest house bar in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, police say.
An initial investigation found Charles Clayton Burgess, 39, from Box Hill in NSW, and Scott Ray Sturgess, 42, from San Diego, California, may have died from heart failure after drinking too much, police Lieutenant Colonel Boonlert Jantanoodej said.
The Nation newspaper said Burgess was the owner of the bar-guest house and Sturgess was a friend who was in Thailand as a tourist.
The two men had been drinking with friends in the ground floor bar of the guest house from midday Sunday, Boonlert said.
They were last seen still drinking and shooting pool early Monday.
The two men were found slumped on the floor near the pool table later on Monday morning, Boonlert said.
A post-mortem exam found traces of narcotics in their blood but there was no physical sign on their bodies that they had used drugs, he said.
Police said the cocktail of drugs and alcohol could have contributed to their deaths.
Chiang Mai is close to the Golden Triangle, the drug-producing region where the borders of Burma, Laos and Thailand meet.
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Posted on: 9:42 pm on Aug. 8, 2005
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Diddler
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Seems a little odd that two relatively young men would both die from alcohol poisoning. Therre must be a little more to it than that.
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Posted on: 10:32 pm on Aug. 8, 2005
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The Machine
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Totally unbelieveable.
I would love to see the stats for accidental deaths and suicides in LOS for farangs.
It seems frighteningly high.
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Posted on: 11:01 pm on Aug. 8, 2005
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CalEden
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Quote: from LIMP1 on 6:54 pm on Aug. 9, 2005
A post-mortem exam found traces of narcotics in their blood but there was no physical sign on their bodies that they had used drugs, he said.
Police said the cocktail of drugs and alcohol could have contributed to their deaths.
A drug enema will do the trick, quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, no physical sign of drug use on the body.
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Posted on: 12:02 am on Aug. 9, 2005
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thaiprivateeye
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True - not all that surprising - likewise the 'suicide rate' is abnormally high in LOS - although at times foreign suicides have been found with handcuffs on and plastic bags over their heads.... but dare I say, being the betting man I am, that somewhere along the line, Money, Woman,Dispute,Money, Politics, or Money will be found to be involved... And another reminder to 'farangs' not to get to smart, or to try and buck the system, especially in places where the boys in brown are known to be a law unto themselves !
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Posted on: 2:17 am on Aug. 9, 2005
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ftumch
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Hmm. Looks like a Mickey Finn for the bar owner and the punter got caught drinking out the same bottle. Not a Thai wife (and her Thai boyfriend/husband) in the background who thought it was time to cash in by any chance?
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Posted on: 2:48 am on Aug. 9, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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My goodness, you are absolutely right -- there's just absolutely NO chance in the world that hard-drinking farangs in Thailand, or anywhere, could ever die of such a harmless thing as alcohol. I mean, we all know that alcohol is good for you, and in no way constitutes a toxin - or that many people are simply too f***ing dumb to understand to stop drinking when they should.
Must be some meany, nasty, anonymous thugs that poisoned these good boys, while undoubtedly in perfect health.
http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/students/risky/alcoholpoisoning.aspx
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/PEOPLE/outreach/safesobr/15qp/web/idalc.html
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/HealthIssues/1116869456.html
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh27-1/110-120.htm
The annual average number of deaths for which alcohol poisoning was listed as an underlying cause was 317 (..) An average of 1,076 additional deaths included alcohol poisoning as a contributing cause, bringing the total number of deaths with any mention of alcohol poisoning to 1,393 per year (0.49 per 100,000 population). Males accounted for more than 80 percent of these deaths. (..) Alcohol poisoning deaths tended to be most prevalent among people ages 35 to 54. Among deaths with a contributing cause of alcohol poisoning, almost 90 percent had an underlying cause related to some type of poisoning from other drugs.
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Posted on: 3:19 am on Aug. 9, 2005
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Changover
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"almost 90 percent had an underlying cause related to some type of poisoning from other drugs."
so that leaves 139 - only 49 more than the number of people killed by lightening in the US every year.
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Posted on: 3:46 am on Aug. 9, 2005
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Abrak
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0.49 per 100,000 - that is an extremely low figure. Imagine if you lived in a community of 1,000 people, that is the equivalent of 1 person dying from alcohol poisoning every 200 years. And here in Chiang Mai, supposedly, we have 2 people dying simultaneously on the same night. Sounds very suspicious to me.
Incidentally you are 4 times more likely to die as a pedestrian walking down the street than from alcohol poisoning based on these stats.
http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
Oh... and 15x times more likely to blow your brains out with a gun.
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Posted on: 3:51 am on Aug. 9, 2005
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AmoresPerros
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Yes Daffy, take it easy... the simultaneous death from alcohol is extremely unlikely and very suspicious. Double overdose wouldn't seem so unlikely though. Those guys might have absorbed too strong or too badly mixed a product. Sometimes U hear in the west of string of ODs linked to a single source.
Besides I thought I was about to die last night while throwing up in the toilets. Needed all the dedication in the world to get back to the living room and honour the 2 birds I'd brought over. Vague memories... yet I still managed to call my regular and have her come to sleep overafter they left... When U have the spirit... and Kemagra...
This afternoon after the maid left I had the surprise to see two guys knocking my room's door, one was fully masked as if entering a radioactive zone, carrying a huge spray...reminded me of William Burroughs' Exterminator... actually came to disinfect the bathroom... far off...Sure this evening I won't start downing Singha after Singha while surfing the net... Try to stand up in BED or CM2...
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Posted on: 4:33 am on Aug. 9, 2005
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