orang37 wrote:
> in response to posts by Ian and Maxwell, Sandy, et. al.
>
> Would what would be very interesting to know would be the proportion of :
>
> 1. short term visit (less than one month) tourists killed or murdered by
> Thais, .d by Thais, or robbed by Thais. i.e., not accidents, not highway
> fatalities, not the result of extreme risk-taking behavior by the tourists.
>
> 2. long term stay expats (greater than one year) killed or murdered by
> Thais, .d by Thais, or robbed by Thais. i.e., not accidents, not highway
> fatalities, not the result of extreme risk-taking behavior by the expats.
>
> I'd love to see these statistics broken out by ., age cohorts, and by
> location. Separate statistics for farang suicides broken out by these same
> categories.
>
> My guesses :
>
> 1. more older long-term stay expats die in Pattaya of suicide and murder per
> 1000 farang population cohorts than anywhere else in the Kingdom.
>
> 2. more young short term visit tourists are murdered on the beach areas
> which may include Koh Samui, Phuket, as well as, of course, Jomtien,
> Pattaya, etc.
>
> 3. more older single long-stay expat males are murdered in the greater
> Bangkok area.
>
> An experiment : ... focus only on dead Farangs who have been murdered or
> committed suicide ... exclude death by terrorist bombings ... exclude death
> by someone who has gone berserk and killed a lot of people in a rage ...
>
> Imagine a large map of Thailand on which stickers are placed per homicide :
>
> 1. a blue star is a dead young tourist male, a red star is a dead young
> tourist female
>
> 2. a green star is a dead younger male long-term expat; a yellow star a dead
> younger female long-term expat
>
> 3. a black star is a dead older male long-term expat; a dead older female
> long-term expat
>
> Now add in stickers for suicides using the same colors but using little
> triangular stickers.
>
> What do you think you would see if you looked at the map from several feet
> away ?
>
> ~o:37;
A very untidy map!
Your stats should be broken down further by nationality and
socioeconomic class in country of origin, ideally speaking.
Ian
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