Horneytorney Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Top 10 Violent Vacations ... what figures exist do not lend themselves to an easy top 10 list for a variety of reasons, including governments cooking the books and victims choosing not to report crimes. Nonetheless, we’ve assembled such a top 10 using statistics provided by NationMaster.com and the United Nations. US, UK, Germany etc. are just not in this list because nobody goes for vacation there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Ya think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Surprised that Mexico is that high these days, with the horrific drugs wars going on. Maybe they count shopping trips across the border. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Ya think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism Nah, HT doesn't think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Surprised that Mexico is that high these days, with the horrific drugs wars going on. Maybe they count shopping trips across the border. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tourism_in_Mexico Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horneytorney Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Nah, HT doesn't think. the one who does not think and just follow the mainstream bullshit is YOU, Munchie baa was showing the top 10 violent VACATION spots what radioman shows is a TOURIST statistics, including everything that moves from outside the country to the country in question like businesstrips, visiting relatives, visit for one day etc.etc.etc. I went myself to USA, UK and Germany many many times, but would I ever do VACATION there? certainly not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 People visiting Thailand and caught up in violence would count toward the same statistics regardless of if they were there for business or leisure. If Joe is visiting Thailand for business and gets stabbed on his day off would that be tourism or vacation? How would the Thais classify it? The point is moot, it's dangerous, don't travel. Having visited more than 50 countries for business there are exceedingly few I would spend my own money to visit for vacation purposes. The world is a pretty crappy place overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Yes, this is weird. Incidentally, and I am not disputing this, but how can you tell the head wounds are 24 - 48 hours old? Curious. You have most likely not seen major knife wounds before. They dont bruise like a concussion Think of the last time you cut your self, unless it was an impact there would likely be no contusion at all. So once cleaned up and if antibiotics were given soon after the cut, there would be no bruising or swelling from infections. Just like a surgical cut in a hospital. That said, my educated guess is the photo of him with the iv in his hand and the id bracelet were taken within 24 to 48 hours after the attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 US, UK, Germany etc. are just not in this list because nobody goes for vacation there... ^^^ Moronic statement. World tourism Stats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Radley Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 There was a long thread on the Pantip message board about this attack started by a Thai lady (sailomnao) on 27/10/12 who is living abroad and read about it in the Daily Mail, posting up the link to the article. She was of course presumably horrified by the attack but specifically mentioned the damage this will do to Thailand's tourist image with people on the Daily Mail website posting up messages to avoid Thailand now as it's not safe and choose other tourist destinations instead. This attack still doesn't seem to have been picked up by the Thai media and she was calling for any Thai news outlets to take up the story so that something might be done to put pressure on the authorities for more to be done. Update: The latest I heard from the grapevine, as it were, was that 2 of the gang were sentenced today: one 17 year-old got 3 years and one 19 year-old got 10 years. More sentencing to follow on the others arrested. Hope the reports of the sentencing are correct. I tried searching for the story in the Thai press and turned up nothing. Maybe it just wasn't considered particularly newsworthy since no one got killed or maybe it's hoped for some sort of damage limitation by keeping it out of the press but the story got out anyhow. http://www.pantip.com/cafe/blueplanet/topic/E12845603/E12845603.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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