Thread: 'Gymnast' falls from Bangkok airport rafters

The Daily Mail
14 Dec, 2017

By: Chris Pleasance

This is the moment a "distressed" tourist fell from the ceiling at Bangkok airport after performing gymnastics on steel wires for several hours.

The woman, who has not been identified but is described as being between 20 and 30 and European in appearance, landed on a crash mat and was taken to hospital where she is now recovering from her ordeal.

Police say she has refused to speak with them, but has an Olympics 2014 tattoo on her back, suggesting she may have been a competitor at the winter games, the Daily Mail reports.

The woman was originally found wandering down an expressway in central Bangkok before being taken to the tourist police at the city's airport.

Around 9am she somehow managed to give officers the slip, and was later found on an upper walkway before climbing over and on to some steel cables.

The "stressed" woman then spent the next two hours dangling from the wires 20m off the ground while emergency workers tried to speak with her, the Bangkok Post reports.

Rescuers also spent time positioning a crash mat underneath her in case she fell.



Video shows her hanging upside down with the wire behind her knees and her head in her hands.

She performed gymnastics on the wires for around two hours while emergency workers attempted to talk her down.

As two emergency workers tied to harnesses reach out towards her she re-positions herself so she is clinging on only by her toes.



They back off, but after a few moments the woman lets herself go, colliding with another steel wire below which she hooks behind her elbow.

Both emergency workers move in to grab her, but she lets go again and this time plunges on to a crash mat.

Images posted by onlookers show she was later removed on a back board by paramedics.

Airport deputy director Kittipong Kittikachorn said the woman had accepted food and water but that she was still refusing to talk to anyone or reveal her identity and she had no documents on her.

Investigations are ongoing to try to find out who the woman is.

'Gymnast' falls from Bangkok airport rafters - NZ Herald

Gymnastics is not a winter olympics sport, but with the tattoo and her obvious athletic prowess, she's certainly likely to be an olympian.
Those wires would not be the most comfortable for hooking your legs over.

Clearly off her nut on something.

Obviously she's talented but in need of a psychiatric evaluation.
Or possibly she stopped taking her meds since initially she was found and detained while walking on an expressway. (Doesn't read like a raver.)

I'm amazed that they had a rescue team with an inflated crash bag-mat in place. Job well done.
(I wonder in which language they spoke to her.)

I like to unwind in those work-out areas, as well, before my flight...

Poll for nationality: I say Brit, but it's a close call for Russian.

Originally Posted by PeeCoffee

I'm amazed that they had a rescue team with an inflated crash bag-mat in place. Job well done.

Agreed.
And the girl aimed for it, you will notice. She'd had enough, and with one close call fall which she very adeptly saved herself from, she gave up and went for the mat.

Hmm...not really a very British thing to do.

Bit too athletic.

I'll go for Romanian.

Just the one guess, eh.

Do kiwis really call the Summer Olympics the Winter Olympics?

Maybe punty's lass discovered his 'dial-a-bonk' app?

Nadia?

Originally Posted by Wilsonandson

The woman was originally found wandering down an expressway in central Bangkok before being taken to the tourist police at the city's airport.

This is usually a reasonable clue as to mental stability, or lack thereof.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

This is usually a reasonable clue as to mental stability, or lack thereof.

Dumped there by a taxi driver perhaps?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Do kiwis really call the Summer Olympics the Winter Olympics?

No, but I call what the OP calls the Winter Olympics the Winter Olympics.

Originally Posted by Wilsonandson

suggesting she may have been a competitor at the winter games,

Originally Posted by Maanaam

No, but I call what the OP calls the Winter Olympics the Winter Olympics.

Well that's cleared up nothing, so cheers for that.

Originally Posted by Wilsonandson

The "stressed" woman then spent the next two hours dangling from the wires

Bet a few rubber-necking Thais missed their flights.

^hoping to glimpse her farang nose and big boobs, no doubt

More like her bra and underkaks sizes for winning lottery numbers.