Thread: Young Canadian Tourist Missing from Thai Train Found Dead Under Platform in Ratchabur

At 10:30 PM, on March 20th, 2024, Thai police officers received a missing person report from railway police officers as a young Canadian tourist went missing while on a Krung Thep Aphiwat-Chumphon-Kantang rapid train number 168.


The missing person was publicly identified only as Mr. Ralph, a 26-year-old Canadian tourist. Ralph had traveled with his friend heading to Chumphon. However, his friend, whose name was not revealed to the press, told the railway police that Ralph went missing at Mueang, Ratchaburi, after Ralph reportedly went to smoke at a staircase.


The railway police and Ratchaburi rescue teams searched the rail track on foot as they believed that Ralph might have fallen from the train.


However, after searching all night on the rail track from Photharam District to Mueang District, Ralph was not found.

On March 21st, Photharam police officers reported that locals found a foreigner’s body under a train platform in Photharam, Ratchaburi.


Upon the police investigation, the body had an ID card identified as Ralph, the missing person. The body had a serious wound on the left thigh and abrasions all over the body.


Moreover, on the rail track and the platform concrete block, bloodstains were found. The Pattaya News withheld his full name until his family and embassy could be fully contacted.


Initially, the police drew an assumption that Ralph fell into the rail track as he hit the platform concrete block with his left leg. The incident scene was under railway construction and the concrete blocks were exposed 50 centimeters away from the train and the area had little to no light source.

The victim might have not realized and hit his left leg with the concrete block and fell. The police further added that the victim attempted to crawl under the platform and lost a large amount of blood before death.


However, the police would transfer the body for further autopsy to determine the exact cause of the death before coordinating with the embassy to contact his family.

Young Canadian Tourist Missing from Thai Train Found Dead Under Platform in Ratchaburi - The Pattaya News

younger westerners, from countries where health and safety regulations, restrictions and prohibitions have developed over the past 30 years in order to protect people from their own blind stupidity have little or no concept of the dangers present in everyday life in other parts of the world where people have grown up knowing full well they have to look out for themselves because nobody else will and are usually fully aware of the dangers presented by standing next to open train doors, precariously balanced cauldrons of boiling oil lining the crowded footpaths, live electrical cables at head height, highways full of crazed drunken drivers in poorly maintained vehicles etc.etc.etc.

this careless canadian, nannied throughout his life in a country where the careless are protected from their own carelessness was rendered utterly unfit to survive in a country where one has to look out for oneself.

thai trains, bouncing and lurching about as they do on uneven tracks are no place to try your luck by standing or sitting on the steps of the open doors. but poor ralph would have had no concept of the risks involved in such an activity and unfortunately paid the ultimate price for his lack of awareness.

survival of the fittest and all that.

and just like that sitting on the back of a slow choo choo train in Thailand watching the world recede ends. over 20 years ago when i smoked i used to love sitting on the back with a fag and chang trundling south. They banned all alcohol after that one rape, can see them banning going outside too.

Back in the day when Marlboro Daeng was a crucial factor in my struggle for survival in negotiating the vicissitudes of life I would smoke a cigarette in the toilets of my sprinter train en route to Nakhon Wingman and her kin. I prefer trains to road travel when the opportunity presents and the then service to the homestead was convenient in both duration and departure time. Eschewing Thai food packaged by the SRT, I loathe stone cold gai krapow and wrinkled hard fried egg, I would prepare my own butties and generally took pleasure from the journey. But halfway through one trip the train inspector informed me smoking in the bogs was verboten and threatened a fine.
Outside was permissible though.
So, I quit the carriage and stood outside on the wildly bucking jolting steel plate that matched the wildly bucking and jolting steel plate attached to the next carriage forming a gangway between the two. Staying there would have been suicide if it were not for the guard rails on either side positioned hip high onto which I clutched for dear life as I sucked on my fag. Barrelling along the straightaway at 60 mph was a thrilling experience but uneven tracks and negotiating points meant the occasional lurch of terror. I learned to time my fag breaks going uphill or along a stretch approaching junctions when speed reduced and the journey became quite pleasant and one was confident enough to look around at the changing scenery or up and down the tracks, waving at the odd urchin or buffalo.

But I have to say during the entirety of those fag breaks my grip on the hand rail always remained vicelike while I rested my back against the compartment.

That poor fucker just got it wrong.

I clutched for dear life as I sucked on my fag

Good on you for having the courage to admit to sucking off fags in the toilets of a Thai train.

Sounds like he alighted from the train onto a broken platform that he couldn't see due to the darkness. That's pretty damn unlucky, but also very foolish no matter where you are.

As for health and safety, aren't tax and SA old enough to have jumped from moving trains in their youth? Used to be all the rage back in 60's and 70's England to avoid the ticket collector.

Originally Posted by taxexile

younger westerners, from countries where health and safety regulations, restrictions and prohibitions have developed over the past 30 years in order to protect people from their own blind stupidity have little or no concept of the dangers present in everyday life in other parts of the world where people have grown up knowing full well they have to look out for themselves because nobody else will and are usually fully aware of the dangers presented by standing next to open train doors, precariously balanced cauldrons of boiling oil lining the crowded footpaths, live electrical cables at head height, highways full of crazed drunken drivers in poorly maintained vehicles etc.etc.etc.

this careless canadian, nannied throughout his life in a country where the careless are protected from their own carelessness was rendered utterly unfit to survive in a country where one has to look out for oneself.

thai trains, bouncing and lurching about as they do on uneven tracks are no place to try your luck by standing or sitting on the steps of the open doors. but poor ralph would have had no concept of the risks involved in such an activity and unfortunately paid the ultimate price for his lack of awareness.

survival of the fittest and all that.

Oh fuck off you morbid kunt. The guy was simply satisfying a craving to smoke a cigarette and went to the door to do so . Smoking illegal on the train the guy likely just fell out the door. Simple as that. When I was regularly commuting by train Bangkok to udon thani in first class I would also do the same . The conductors probably knew but couldn't give a fuck, I can see it would be quite easy to fall out the door while having a puff.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

and just like that sitting on the back of a slow choo choo train in Thailand watching the world recede ends. over 20 years ago when i smoked i used to love sitting on the back with a fag and chang trundling south. They banned all alcohol after that one rape, can see them banning going outside too.

Yes it took.1 chicken head on yaba to fuck up a good thing. Many good memories of years ago.drinking with the staff in the restaurant car. It's still good . Nothing wrong with the first class cabins book the whole thing to yourself have a few bevvys in a resto opposite hualamphong hit the 7 / 11 for the the train bevvys and snacks. Lock the door put on the headphones. Doesn't get much better

Originally Posted by BLD

Oh fuck off you morbid kunt. The guy was simply satisfying a craving to smoke a cigarette and went to the door to do so . Smoking illegal on the train the guy likely just fell out the door. Simple as that. When I was regularly commuting by train Bangkok to udon thani in first class I would also do the same . The conductors probably knew but couldn't give a fuck, I can see it would be quite easy to fall out the door while having a puff.

for the thousandth time, the idiot misses the point completely

Originally Posted by malmomike77

and just like that sitting on the back of a slow choo choo train in Thailand watching the world recede ends. over 20 years ago when i smoked i used to love sitting on the back with a fag and chang trundling south. They banned all alcohol after that one rape, can see them banning going outside too.

Those were the days, only got to experience it once!

Originally Posted by malmomike77

and just like that sitting on the back of a slow choo choo train in Thailand watching the world recede ends. over 20 years ago when i smoked i used to love sitting on the back with a fag and chang trundling south. They banned all alcohol after that one rape, can see them banning going outside too.

I used to love those train journeys watching the world go by with a beer in hand...

...and just like that the fuckers banned ale.

Still beats the bus by a million miles though.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

and just like that sitting on the back of a slow choo choo train in Thailand watching the world recede ends.

I read it more like I think Troy did, this chap got off a train at the station to smoke. Either getting off or more likely hurrying to get back on a train that might already have started moving he somehow fell in the darkness. Whatever, a sad end.