Guest Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 A woman committed suicide by jumping into a pool of more than 100 crocodiles in front of a shocked crowd of tourists at a Samut Prakan zoo yesterday. Police said Somjai Setbun, a 40-year-old Surin native, died after suffering serious injuries to her head and neck when one of the reptiles bit into her and dragged her into the water. "It happened so quickly that there was no time for anyone to stop her,'" said Thanes Wiriyaporn, a tourist guide at Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm and Zoo. Mr Thanes told police Somjai's face had registered no emotion as she climbed over the crocodile pool's two-metre steel perimeter fence at about 11 am. When the crocodile attacked and dragged her into the water, she wrapped her arms around it and did not resist, he said. Scores of other reptiles subsequently swarmed around Somjai, before security guards fought them away with bamboo poles. Pol Lt-Col Theerachai Jindasathien said Somjai left a letter at the scene of her death criticising her husband and apologising to her two children. The woman's 19-year-old son, Wilai, said his mother had been suffering from stress, but had never talked about family problems. He believed his mother took her own life because his father had flirted with other women. http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/12Aug2002_news06.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 LazyPhil mentioned this in his thread "Lunch is served." Scary, isn't it! ? Even scarier is the fact I can think of a dozen ways I'd rather go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 Old Hippie, Only a dozen! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoiledCowboy Posted August 14, 2002 Report Share Posted August 14, 2002 Crocodile suicide 'planned' August 13, 2002 THE family of a Thai woman who committed suicide by jumping into a pool of hundreds of crocodiles believe she planned her grisly death, a report said Somjai Sethboonwas, 40, was killed on Sunday when she flung herself into the pit of crocodiles at a Bangkok farm, in front of dozens of horrified tourists. When the crocodiles ignored her, she reportedly swam towards them and was finally attacked and killed by at least two of them. "She told me she would have crocodiles bite her to death, but I never thought she would really do it," the woman's husband Samut Sethboon told the Nation newspaper. Two suicide letters she left behind also indicated she intended to kill herself before she visited the Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm, the report said. "She had been crying a lot recently, complaining about her husband," Somjai's mother Boonmee Kluika was quoted as saying. "She talked about killing herself by jumping in a crocodile pond but I didn't believe she would really do it. I even joked that one who wanted to die that way had to keep an ID card in the pocket because the body would be unrecognisable," she said. An autopsy showed that skull and brain damage were the causes of Somjai's death, the report said. Samut Prakan Crocodile Farm executive Charoon Yangprapakorn told the daily that the park would increase its "already strict" safety measures, but that if someone was determined to die, there was little that could be done. "Our farm is used as a standard for other local and international crocodile farms," Charoon said. "The only other suicide took place more than 10 years ago, after which we enlarged and reinforced the fences," he added. The crocodile farm, Thailand's largest, was reportedly swamped yesterday with thousands of visitors who wanted to see where Somjai had died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SoiledCowboy Posted August 14, 2002 Report Share Posted August 14, 2002 There's a commercial opportunity in there somewhere waiting for an unscruplulous park operator to exploit - I can see it now - "Children trampled to death by rampaging elephants at Dusit Zoo - crowds flock to the scene of the tradegy and record Zoo attendences result" ...........hmmmm.......back to the old Roman lion and gladiator days! or maybe "Westerner tourist trampled to death by tourist elephant outside Clinton Plaza - crowds swarm to the location and record trade figures recorded for Clinton" - the saviour for Clinton Plaza ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 14, 2002 Report Share Posted August 14, 2002 I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I am always highly appreciative of people who plan their deaths with my personal amusement in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 16, 2002 Report Share Posted August 16, 2002 more people would do it if they knew the 300b for foreigner and 50b for Thai price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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