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so where do you sit on this bloke? Should he be hung, drawn and quartered for killing his son, or sympathised with for having a mental problem.

I wouldn't say I sympathise, but I think to lock him up when he's clearly broken already is a mistake. He's got to live with that for the rest of his life.

He has a history of metnal problems in his family and his wife was clearly playing away and threatening to take his kids away from him. Why he didn't chuck her over the balcony instead of taking himself and his kids is beyond me...

I think it would be unfair to convict him because something clearly went wrong in his mind to make him do this.
We will never know the full truth - he says he doesn't remember what happened- but I believe he was probably told to say that.

What I do think though is some serious questions need to be asked to his wife, my thoughts are is that she did something to spark his fury and I think it invloved saying something like I am leaving you & taking your kids and you won't see them again.

I may be wrong but from what has been said something isn't quite right

that's what I thought. Even if she did say those things, though, jumping off a balcony seems a tad extreme. As I say though, his family seems to have a problem with mental issues.

Sad story whatever happened.

Wasn't she already seeing the guy she's now married to when they went on holiday to 'reconcile their differences'?

If in doubt, blame the wife. 8)

i think they got it right.it wasn't murder imo

The lad is dead and was thrown off a balcony deliberately. Sounds like murder to me.

Slightly on a different tangent, but when you're staying in a hotel, are you ever tempted to jump from your balcony into the swimming pool.  I'd never do it but I have been tempted.

The pool always seems close enough that if you get a decent run up you'd make it.  One for Dirty Sanchez maybe.

Tempted may be a bit strong, has the thought ever crossed your mind.

Iv'e often 'wondered' if it would be possible, but it would take a serious crack session before I was tempted.

I did once jump off a boat from about 15m into the sea once in Greece, I didn't hurt myself but it stung a bit.

How high above water to you need to be before jumping into that water would do you damage?

Apparently only one person has surviced falling from Sydney Harbour Bridge, I would have thought you'd be fine falling from that distance.

I would sat it would need to be deeper than an adverage swimming pool Jan - most pools are 2 meters deep tops - They class that OK for doing an adverage dive

Chemical castration and a minimum 6 year stint at a fruit farm.

That reminds me I remember reading about a guy who tried jumping from his hotel balcony into the sea a couple of  years ago, found the story http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4736962.stm

Welsh baseball team  :D

That's not my question JFW.

How high above water do you have to be, before you'd do yourself damage by jumping into it?  Like jumping into the sea, not a depth of the water question, more to do with the force of entering the water.

Know what I mean?

As for that welsh bloke, what a shame, love the quote from his mate "last thing I remember is him doing an Elvis impression"

Kinda reminds me of myself.  I once jumped out of my mates first floor window with no shoes on, cos I couldn't be bothered to use his front door.  The powers of alcohol eh?

My guess is that you could probably survive pretty high up, after all we have all seen those people who dive into the sea from a cliff edge.

As I said my 15m jump stung a bit, and much higher I may have done myself some damage but I am not a pro, and was also rather drunk at the time and so I did a bit of a belly flop.

Bangkok do you ever hear of tourists out there who go ‘native’ and can’t handle the thought of going home?

Can’t remember where but I read an interesting article about 6 years back which followed several middle aged men who were struggling to come to terms with having to return back home to their lacklustre lives after being blindly sucked into the bar girl scene.

One of them tried to do himself in out of a hotel window and a couple of others packed in their jobs and lives and went native only to realise the old adage ‘no money no honey.’

I think another had to see the quacks as he went a bit loopy from it all.

Yeah, happens all the time especially in the sleaze capital that is Pattaya.

So many blokes come out here and meet a girl "Whore" in a bar and fall in love is shocking. They completely fall for the "I love you, good handsome man" thing despite the fact that it took money for her to shag him the first few times.

They become so convinced by the girls charms that they fall head over heals and spend their whole life savings on the girl, only to find that when the bank account runs dry and the gravy train stops then the love of their life vanishes leaving the bloke pennilless, loveless and desperate.

To us more experience chaps out here we have our own translations to what the girls say and actually mean.

1) "Hello, Handsome man"...Means "Hello, you look minted"
2) "Where you come from?"... Means "Do you come from a rich country"
3) "Where you stay?"... Means "Can you afford an expensive hotel?"
4) "How long you stay Thailand?"... Means "How long can I drain you for?"
5) "My baby is sick"... Means "I am just testing to see how gullible you are"

ect ect.

I am generalising of course as the vast majority of Thais girls are not whore's at all. But if these guys come out here and pay for sex with a whore and then fall in love with them then the saying stands: You can take the girl out of the bar, but you can't take the bar out of the girl.

Most blokes just come out for a bit of fun and shagging for a couple of weeks or so though, but even then some dumb cunt's end up going back home and end up sending money back to a bar girl each motnh.

On the original point (or one of them), I saw a programme once that had people jumping off cliffs into the sea from 40m up, it stung a bit but they were fine, I guess you could survive up to a 100m or so with a few injuries depending how you entered the water.

ive seen the blokes jump off the cliffs in aculpuco and thats fucking high.

Not the best idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEwdDKNSfc

I saw an elephant dive into a bucket of water once from what looked over a 100 feet.

I think the film was 'Dumbo'............................