Thread: Post a photo a week, of anything/anywhere

Originally Posted by OckerRocker

My youngest daughter and me off the coast of Sapi island

I wouldnt take my daughter up on one of those. I know of 2 people who died in Penang paragliding and a woman who was caught in the top of a tree near the Rasa Sayang hotel, screaming... for half an hour.

if you go to the outside bar there, the bartender will point at the tree where it happened

Think I found the photo




Here's a few more I've dug up...

Water-sport mishaps in recent years:

Langkawi

- In July 2012, a heavy-set Arab tourist died in a freak parasailing accident in Langkawi. The parachute failed to lift him on the final attempt to get airborne and he fell to the beach before having breathing difficulties.

Batu Ferringhi

- On Oct 9, 2013, Saudi Arabian tourist Aldakhilallah Eman Mohamed, 35, died after plunging 10m into the sea while parasailing.

- In February 2013, an American tourist suffered a severe injury to her foot and another fractured her pelvic bone after a parasailing mishap.

- In January 2012, a local college student and his uncle got stuck in a tree after their parachutes got entangled in knots. They sustained minor scratches and bruises after falling on cushions placed by the watersports operators.



- In January 2012, Ehab Abunawas, a tourist from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia claimed that parasailing rope and hooks kept hitting him and his nine-year-old son while they were up in the air and no proper safety briefing was given prior to the ride.

- On Jan 24, 2012, a parasailing Chinese national hit a Singaporean when he landed on the latter.

- In June 2012, seven people in a team-building activity were injured and one hospitalised when a parasailing tourist fell on them while attempting to land.

- In June 2012, a female tourist was snagged on a cheek by a parasail's ropes.

- On Aug 27, 2012, an Arab tourist broke her right leg when she and her husband fell on each other just before taking flight.

- On Dec 24, 2010, seven-year-old Rina Aizawa from Japan was playing on the beach when a parasailing rope hooked her neck, lifted her off the ground and dragged her for a short distance. She sustained lacerations on her neck.


- In May 2010, a Jordanian woman had her parachute entangled in a coconut tree near a hotel.

- In June 2010, a drummer with the British samba band Inner Sense, Richard Sliva, fractured his left leg after plunging about 20m to the ground when his parasail failed to open properly.

- On Aug 31, 2011, a 40-year-old woman from Ipoh suffered lacerations on her neck and arm after she got entangled in the rope of a parasail while her teenage son sustained minor cuts while trying to ward off the rope. Two parasailers had landed near them when they were walking on the beach.

The perils of parasailing - Nation | The Star Online

Originally Posted by Dillinger

a heavy-set Arab tourist

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Saudi Arabian tourist

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an American tourist

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Ehab Abunawas, a tourist from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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a parasailing Chinese national

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an Arab tourist broke her right leg

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a Jordanian woman

So far I'm safe . . . it is simply dangerous being an Arab, it seems.


Having said that, thanks Dillinger . . . I'll not be doing this again - once was enough

^ They love it those Arabs and the Japs. i thought paragliding was pretty safe too, until I heard about the woman in the tree

There's a kayaking place in Penang too, it's just as you turn right to go up the hill to ferringhi, I went with a mate. the woman there was really safety conscious and mentioned to stay near the beach, put the life jacket on. It's a good 45 minutes of 2 of you paddling to get to this little island. You go past Miami Beach to get to it.

Anyway, as she was mentioning the undercurrents, I jokingly asked if anyone had ever died kayaking there. She said 'yes last year'

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Anyway, as she was mentioning the undercurrents, I jokingly asked if anyone had ever died kayaking there. She said 'yes last year'

Hmmm . . . nice.
As I said, won't be doing it again.

We also did a level two white-water rafting (our eight-year old precluded a higher stage which we'd done a few years ago). That was fun and the guides were quite good, especially in terms of safety.

Still . . . Malaysia is better than Thailand in this regard but far behind places like Singapore, NZ etc...

Haven't see Monty the carpet python for about a year. He used to hang around the house sometimes. I hope this belongs to him as it is 2 metres long.

It has no patterning though. I am not sure if shed snakeskins retain species patterning or not.

If it is not a python then there is a monster eastern brown somewhere on my property.

Monster brown.

And a nice new pair of shiny shoes, if you can catch the fokker with that chainsaw

It's one of those plastic toy chainsaws for legomen, only about an inch long...

Should have left one of his stilettos there for scale

Monkeys and Russians.

Looper, you are getting a bit slack, your chain is a bit loose.

Those waters look pristine Pseudo. Think I've peed in there. Is it chicken Island or one of the 5 Island tour from Ao Nang?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Those waters look pristine Pseudo. Think I've peed in there. Is it chicken Island or one of the 5 Island tour from Ao Nang?

Monkey island and general pissing about on the water. Good fun.

Nice one mate, do a thread. Wanna see more of that posh boat

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Should have left one of his stilettos there for scale

Here is one for ya!



KGBGF came round and surprised me tonight me after her pole dancing class.

These are the stilettos she uses.



I cannot model them as they are a bit small

Originally Posted by reddog

Looper, you are getting a bit slack, your chain is a bit loose.

New chain today. They stretch a bit on the first run.

JonCutter?...Never heard of him in logging land...

Originally Posted by Looper

her pole dancing

If you hadn't mentioned it, I was just going to ask...

driving here can be a little bit challenging

Brixton ? ^

College green, Dublin.

Over 100 years old so I'm told, and still in use today. Rural farming in Buriram Province.

Fcuking Thais and their ability to ruin beautiful countryside. In the villages at either end of this road, 11km in length, they have refuse collection bins outside every house. Along with community bins on the main road. But some cnut deliberately drives here to dump his rubbish. All in the same place and all tied up in the same manner. Welcome to Thailand, this is not an isolated case.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

some cnut deliberately drives here to dump his rubbish

They name and shame fly tippers on road signs in the UK now and highlight the 4 figure fine

Originally Posted by Dillinger

They name and shame fly tippers on road signs in the UK now and highlight the 4 figure fine

They couldn't do that in Thailand. The road signs wouldn't be fcuking big enough, the dirty bastards.