Thread: Tourist falls to death from Samui waterfall

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Tourist falls to death from Samui waterfall

It seems like that headline is on TD at least twice a year.

And for the same reason.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

the woman was taking a photo on the edge of the fourth level of the waterfall before she fell and hit her head on a rock

Hard to feel any sympathy for people that do this...

Too common to make the Darwin Awards...

Generation Selfiegram

The before image ...

Sad loss.

R.I.P.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Hard to feel any sympathy for people that do this...

Really ?

Originally Posted by helge

Really ?

I lived on Samui for 10 years. The falls were really only worth visiting following heavy rains. Took most visitors there while showing them the area. Never died once.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

the authorities need to do something.

If they try to blockade it or close it, then people will just ignore it and risk a fine. About the only think you can do is "guard" it some way. It is hard to stop people from risking themselves for a photo.

Originally Posted by TTraveler

If they try to blockade it or close it, then people will just ignore it and risk a fine. About the only think you can do is "guard" it some way. It is hard to stop people from risking themselves for a photo.

I understand that you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink,
But you can at least take it to water.
Signs warning tourist not to venture further, and informing that two deaths have occurred in the past two years from those who had not exercise care, would IMO go a long way toward , if not eliminating, reducing such incidents.
Anyone who ignores such warning and suffers, it's on them.

Anyone who ignores such warning and suffers, it's on them.

a person who of their own volition walks on wet slippery ground perilously close to the edge of a drop on to rocks for the purpose of photographing themselves, in spite of signs warning them not to, is already far removed from the supposed safety net that the provision of a silly warning sign is believed to offer.

she was a careless fool, and sadly for those close to her she paid a heavy price for her carelessness.

A boundary rail might work but it would have to be erected at least a metre or so from any edge and there will always be those who will want to circumvent it to get a more natural shot.

Originally Posted by Switch

I lived on Samui for 10 years. The falls were really only worth visiting following heavy rains. Took most visitors there while showing them the area. Never died once.

I have seen some several times myself and are also still alive

Can't see the connection between my own survival and someone else's lack of sympathy with a young maybe foolish girl, who died while on holiday.

Can you ?

Originally Posted by helge

I have seen some several times myself and are also still alive

Can't see the connection between my own survival and someone else's lack of sympathy with a young maybe foolish girl, who died while on holiday.

Can you ?

There are already warning signs. I people want to do dumb shit, let them. Just invalidate their (non existent) travel insurance.
The Thai see a natural resource where they can make money for nothing. The are supports food stalls and a small tourism market. It also provides a rather cruel elephant enclosure.
The place is ripe for development, but that could make it safer but for no profit!

Fence the access off, provide a zip line and a bungee jump with photo ops. That’s what the backspins of this world expect from a developing country. It’s unlikely to happen anytime soon, so not much point crying about stupid people on either side.

Originally Posted by helge

Really ?

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

Very tragic. How can anyone not feel sympathy when while someone on a dream vacation falls to her death leaving her partner in shock ? Can you imagine? you are taking a picture of your GF and she falls to her death.
It seems like it is not the first time this has happened at that location and the authorities need to do something.

There already are signs warning people not to get close to the edge. She was stupid, risked her life and guess what? She paid with her life. It’s like a drunk driver in a car having an accident. Inevitable.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

It’s like a drunk driver in a car having an accident. Inevitable.

And I'll bet that several posters on TD, who are of some age, have been down that road.

Tempting faith out of youthful ignorance and gotten away with it unharmed.

I know I have.


Guess you aren't the type, who liked a bit of living on the edge, and almost sure that you still haven't got kids in the "dangerous" age.



But whatever

who liked a bit of living on the edge,

there are those of us with common sense, and those of us without.

and "living on the edge" as you put it will always cull those without enough sense to avoid taking things too far and falling over that edge.

Wasn't there one in Samui 2 years ago that fell onto the rocks, was seriously injured, possibly left partly disabled, and the Thai guide jumped down and rogered her?

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

I understand that you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink,
But you can at least take it to water.
Signs warning tourist not to venture further, and informing that two deaths have occurred in the past two years from those who had not exercise care, would IMO go a long way toward , if not eliminating, reducing such incidents.
Anyone who ignores such warning and suffers, it's on them.

I long ago lost count of the number of tourists who drown in Phuket despite there being large "DANGER - NO SWIMMING" signs everywhere.

Some people just ask for it.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Some people just ask for it.

Indeed they do. But some posters are just enjoying the chance for some faux outrage!