Swedish National Falls to His Death From Pattaya Hotel

Published : February 25, 2010 :: 11:02:25 [ 9,280 views ]

A Swedish national has been found dead on a second floor balcony at the Royal Twin Palace Hotel in South Pattaya. The man in believed to have fallen from the balcony of his room on the 12th floor in an intoxicated state.

Pattaya, the 24^thof February 2010 [PDN]: Police Lieutenant Colonel Weerawut Meelai, (Pattaya Police Investigator) was notified at 8.00 am of a foreign male found on the mezzanine of a 2^nd floor balcony at the Royal Twin Palace Hotel, South Pattaya. The Officer notified his Superintendent and Deputy before leaving with the Sawang Boriboon Foundation to investigate the incident further.

Officers arrived at the scene to find the body of a Swedish National, identified as Mr. Lars Rutger Johansson, [57] lying on his left side in a pool of blood. At the time of his death he was wearing a white striped t-shirt, brown three quarter length pants and white socks. As a result of the impact, Mr. Johansson had suffered from broken arms, legs and a severely factured skull.

Police searched Mr. Johansson’s room, 1223 on the 12^th floor and discovered numerous beer cans in a bin, a chair close to the balcony which it is believed he used to throw himself off. Interrogation of the staff revealed the deceased had checked in on 21^st February and that before the incident, Mr. Johansson was seen carrying beer cans into the hotel in a depressed state.

Police Colonel Nanthawut Suwanla-orng (Pattaya Police Superintendent) stated that on searching the Mr. Johansson’s room, there did not appear to be anything suspicious about it and believed the cause of death was suicide. However, investigations will continue until they can find a reason for his unfortunate death.

Comments

Tony

said :

I've seen pictures of Thai police smiling at dead bodies of Thai people too. Smiling at the wrong time that's for sure. I'm not surprise if they smiles at funerals too. My friend who is a police here in the USA caught himself and his co-worker (ex-partner)laughing one time because they were just glad to see each other again not realizing how it might look to the victim's friends. They meant not bad wishes but just wasn't thinking because victims just wasn't personal anymore.

Email : tonyrx7@yahoo.com Date : 2011-05-12 09:28:03

joynandan haldar

said :

Its amazing and shocking to see the number of foreigners falling from the Condos and hotels and shophouses where police dont find find any wrongdoings!!!!!!Thai Police and local mafias rule the Pattaya!
Question is why no english daily like Bangkok Post and Nation do not publish these news -
THose days are not that far when Pattaya will become only the place for local fishermen and hijackers like SOMalia unless the Govt take serious action against the local police, mafias and dark influence

Email : joynandan_haldar@yahoo.com Date : 2010-12-20 11:19:25

ron

said :

isn't it great that the police and other bystanders can find humour in the tragic death of a farang--not the first time photos have been shown of the insenitive attitude of thais to farang deaths

Email : ronhumphries38@hotmail.com Date : 2010-05-24 04:38:45

maxx

said :

It is true what they say: Thailand IS the land of the smiles

Email : maxxtro@mail.com Date : 2010-05-19 14:47:21

Murder_in_mind

said :

Interestingly the only part of the world where jumping is a popular method of suicide is this part of the world

In the United States, jumping is among the least common methods of committing suicide (less than 2% of all reported suicides in the United States for 2005).

In South east asia jumping is the most common method of committing suicide, accounting for 52.1% of all reported suicide cases

Looks to me like the Thais are fooled into thinking farangs would choose the same method

Email : serialkiller@thaideath.com Date : 2010-05-15 05:00:50

kakira

said :

too many farangs jump with out parachute hahaha, oops may be their are so depress with lady boy hahaha. damn $5.00 for every things in Thailand, wow!!!lady boy love old farang hahaha ah ha ah ha i like it.

Email : kakrama@gmail.com Date : 2010-04-22 22:15:46

Nick

said :

Thats why I always stay on the first floor in any Thai hotel. Let them throw their crippled king out of the window, not a falang tourist.

Email : meishern@yahoo.com Date : 2010-04-05 09:39:50

Nick

said :

First photo with that pig laughing at dead body I want to carve him up. Thai pig.

Email : meishern@yahoo.com Date : 2010-04-05 09:36:30

Jens

said :

K.Y.Jelly: WTF would they kill "innocent" Arabs? Of all the lame stupid comments - and there are many here - this is the best! Yoú ex CIA, eh? Like so many other morons wasting their lives in this POS backyard country.

Email : jhansen09@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-27 00:47:45

J.Y. Kelly

said :

Noobsauce, you are mistaken. All they need are details from a single photo of the information page and they clone a passport and can go and murder innocent Arabs whilst travelling on British passports.

Email : jasonkelly@gmail.com Date : 2010-02-26 17:21:20

mister Black

said :

i am a tourist who have stayed in pattaya for 13 years already; so i know the police here very well, especially the traffic police who L A U G H after they can catch your money from your Helmet ;-) so everyone, my idea is to wait until THEY die and WE would all come around their dead bodies and Laugh, laugh laugh ;-))))

Email : nahee@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-26 11:57:06

Noobsauce

said :

If you think the Mossad need a retarded website like PDN to acquire passport details then you are one deluded moron.

Email : g@g.com Date : 2010-02-26 07:53:16

informer

said :

They are laughing because they found his wallet, with the cash the person who pushed him off did not take.

Email : informer@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-26 04:20:30

Jens

said :

Maybe, just maybe Tong is right, that they are NOT laughing, but scared sh*t because of Pii. But then again, I've seen too much here, and I've come to believe that they are a shallow, soulless, spineless, moral-less, blood and gore addicted bunch of weirdos! It's like God's Kindergarten: Everything is a joke, hillarious, superficial, and off course, the biggie: Im-permanence! They are Buddhists, we discarnate, and in 2-3 days we jump into another body, and the stupidity starts all over, yeahhaa!

Email : jhansen09@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-26 02:44:05

Hugh Jorgan

said :

Personally I believe that this man was murdered. I would warn all tourists to avoid bringing guests back to their rooms if they live in high-rise buildings.

Email : hjorgan@yahoo.co.th Date : 2010-02-26 00:53:30

ROB

said :

Tong:
Don't give us that about supersticious believes. Thais' in general love to see gore and this is reflected in there own language papers. But, PDN you need to check your photos before using them. I am sure you have another one of the officers investigating without them laughing. They are not just smiling nervously they are "LAUGHING". It is reporting like this that is totally wrong especially when you are a recognized English and Russian (now) web paper.
I notice you still don't caption your photos, which you should. Your editor needs to be given a different job in your paper. Maybe Office Boy? na.....
Regards.

Email : robbod@yahoo.com Date : 2010-02-26 00:50:33

Eric

said :

I can understand the police or emergency services taking the deaths lightly. If you take every death you see seriously then you'll end up cracking. A person tends to harden up to these things, especially the amount of deaths over here. Take nurses in europe.sometimes they come across as heartless but they r not. If they took every case to heart they would b in constant tears or depressed. It is noted that the highest rates of suicides r Doctors and firemen (UK). Reason, they see deaths and things every day or listen to peoples problems every day. Think I would top myself if I was in their position.

Email : thekingsshilling@gmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 23:14:09

Jack

said :

Disgusting thai police officers, just laughing... probably beacuse they already have stolen his money too.

Email : aalen31@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 21:00:23

JaiDi

said :

If anyone JUMPS from a balcony, would they land on one of the balconies underneith? I dont think so, unless extremly strong winds push him back towards the building. It seems to me he has been pushed of the edge, maybe in an unconscious state.

JaiDi

Email : rooner30@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 20:41:58

tong

said :

People,you do not understand the Thai.They are not smile becuase Whitey died.It's nervousness and superstitious
of the dead.Thai's smile in endifference.
It seems the he's fashion was more important than the facts.

Email : tongthailand@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 20:31:05

banksy

said :

she did break his nose eh.....i,m sure its pointing east already......or is it west.....who gives a f##k

Email : stevebanksy@gmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 18:12:00

Art

said :

__Steve just consider if you were going to top yourself would jumping off a high story building be your first choice?
Surely a handful of mogadons and a bottle of 100 pipers would be most folks first choice and if the chips were down that's what I would do.
Put on a dyper and enjoy the last few minutes. No distress and consideration for the people who have to scrape up the brains and #hit from the balcony or side-walk below.

Email : arthurnormartha@yahoo.com Date : 2010-02-25 18:05:26

Steve

said :

A lot of nasty and cynical comments on here. It is a fact there are many lonely, broke, and heartbroken farang here in Pattaya. A lot of them choose to make the jump like many before them. No doubt many learned of the method reading the news just like yourselves.

Email : interactco@gmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 17:46:48

Ben Dover

said :

PDN Editor. I have told you before please do not show people passport details. deceased or not. Mossad use fake passports to people. if you let villians have a ready access to dead peoples details than youare assisting criminals. when will you learn. Amazing Thailand

Email : Bendover@myplace.com Date : 2010-02-25 17:00:41

Jens

said :

Ahh, the smiling happy people in LOS! It always amazes me with the grinning and laughing when people die here in this 3rd world backyard slum country!

Email : jhansen09@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 16:12:57

Alex

said :

Look at the pigs laughing. Karma will come back and bite you 2 cunts. Hey new superintendent are you gona do anything about your boys laughing at a dead corpse

Email : myfriend@yahoo.com Date : 2010-02-25 16:09:27

silver

said :

The first picture is plain discusting. What a shame.

Email : silversurfer@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 15:44:29

Sue. E Sidenott

said :

Suicide - yeah, spend 30,000 Baht on a plane ticket to then throw yourself over a balcony in a foreign land.

Whoever is throwing the Europeans off the balconies in this Wild West town needs to get caught by the laughing boys.

I suspect there's a Katooey out there drinking with these Farangs, throwing them over the balcony, and walking off with the money.

Email : laugh@ewe.th Date : 2010-02-25 13:59:50

daveyboy

said :

Dear PDN, In the first paragraph, he fell due to intoxication.
By the end of the report, he had thrown himself off due to suicide. Could the reporter please make up his mind? Or is it the police changed theirs?

Email : ddwjg@aol.com Date : 2010-02-25 13:00:31

assisted suicide?

said :

Pattaya is becoming the suicide vacation capital of the world. Jumping is one of the least statically popular methods, except in Pattaya. I wonder how many are assited suicide.

METHOD OF SUICIDE

In 2005 the most frequent method of suicide was hanging (including strangulation and suffocation) which was used in half (51%) of all suicide deaths. Poisoning by drugs was used in 12% and poisoning by other methods (including by motor vehicle exhaust) was used in 16% of suicide deaths.
----- An Austrailaian give the following info:
http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/3309.0/ -----

METHOD OF SUICIDE

In 2005 the most frequent method of suicide was hanging (including strangulation and suffocation) which was used in half (51%) of all suicide deaths. Poisoning by drugs was used in 12% and poisoning by other methods (including by motor vehicle exhaust) was used in 16% of suicide deaths. Methods using firearms accounted for 7% of suicide deaths. The remaining group (Other) comprised 14% of suicide deaths and included deaths from drowning, jumping from a high place, and other methods.

Email : assistedsuicide@hotmail.com Date : 2010-02-25 12:29:12

Art

said :

...DOB 28.12.52 That made him 57 years (not 58 until Dec) PDN please kindly correct this.

He seems to have brightened up the day for the 3 police bystanders?

Email : arthurnormartha@yahoo.com Date : 2010-02-25 12:17:47

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