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Thai lawmaker dies in fall from condo
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/22/05 | AP - Bangkok

Posted on 06/22/2005 12:43:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A lawmaker from Thailand's ruling party fell to his death Wednesday from his 10th floor apartment, followed a few hours later by a woman with whom he had been quarreling, police said.

The body of Attapol Sanitwongchai, a 39-year-old member of the Thai Rak Thai Party, was found on the ground outside his Bangkok condominium, police Lt. Col. Sompatara Thongkomol said.

Police are investigating whether Attapol jumped or was pushed, he said.

The lawmaker from northeastern Udon Thani province had quarreled with a woman in the apartment before plunging to his death, police said.

After Attapol's body was discovered, the 25-year-old woman returned to the apartment with three policemen and Attapol's father, a former lawmaker, to collect the dead man's belongings, police said.

When the father was leaving the apartment and the police officers were attending to him, leaving the woman alone, she jumped from the same spot, Sompatara said. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party won a landslide victory earlier this year and controls 377 of the 500 seats in Thailand's lower house.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bye; condo; dies; fall; flyingrunforthefloor; lawmakers; thai; woops
Hellzapoppin' in Thailand.

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1 posted on 06/22/2005 12:44:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

When the deceleration curve goes vertical on the graph it can open up a world of hurt quick.


2 posted on 06/22/2005 12:46:19 PM PDT by TXBSAFH (One man's Linux is another man's OS/2.)
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To: TXBSAFH

from 70mph to 0mph in 0.00001 in


3 posted on 06/22/2005 12:49:34 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
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To: windcliff

"I'll tumble for ya..."


4 posted on 06/22/2005 12:50:05 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: Mikey_1962

That is pretty much it, yep.


5 posted on 06/22/2005 12:54:10 PM PDT by TXBSAFH (One man's Linux is another man's OS/2.)
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To: NormsRevenge
When the father was leaving the apartment and the police officers were attending to him, leaving the woman alone, she jumped from the same spot, Sompatara said.

Sure she did.

6 posted on 06/22/2005 12:54:53 PM PDT by skip_intro
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To: NormsRevenge

It wasn't the fall, it was the sudden stop at the end!
He was doing fine until that point. The press never gets anything right!


7 posted on 06/22/2005 1:02:53 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP, ALEX KOZINSKI FOR SCOTUS)
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To: Mikey_1962

Yeeoouch! I hope whenever it's my turn to go, the ambulance driver won't need a spatula to pick me up.


8 posted on 06/22/2005 1:08:25 PM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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To: NormsRevenge

Nothing suspicous here.


9 posted on 06/22/2005 1:21:16 PM PDT by conservativewasp (Support John Kerry......... Ho Chi Minh would. Damn! Now I need a new tagline.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

That reminds me of the line Tom Cruise used in the movie "Collateral"...

"No, I didn't kill him. It was the gunshot and fall that killed him".


10 posted on 06/22/2005 1:39:04 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: mhking
"J"-"D", amigo.
11 posted on 06/22/2005 1:41:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: NormsRevenge

Ka Blam!


12 posted on 06/22/2005 1:45:57 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: MplsSteve

A philosophical contract hit man. What a concept.
< / sarcasm off>

Good movie though.


13 posted on 06/22/2005 1:56:13 PM PDT by Captain Rhino ("If you will just abandon logic, these things will make a lot more sense to you!")
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To: NormsRevenge
Sounds like a death of an anti-communist leader behind the iron curtain in the forties or fifties.I can't remember if it was Hungary or Czechoslovakia.
14 posted on 06/22/2005 2:03:53 PM PDT by dancusa (Appeasement, high taxes and regulation collects in the diapers of bed wetting liberals.)
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To: stylecouncilor

"Something happens and I’m head over heels
I never find out till I’m head over heels"


15 posted on 06/22/2005 3:49:48 PM PDT by scott7278 (Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I'd like to know what we're talking about.)
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To: scott7278

LOL!!

"the wind beneath my wings..."


16 posted on 06/22/2005 3:51:54 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: stylecouncilor

"I'm falling into you
This dream could come true
And it feels so good falling into you"


17 posted on 06/22/2005 3:54:44 PM PDT by scott7278 (Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I'd like to know what we're talking about.)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

18 posted on 06/22/2005 5:34:02 PM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: NormsRevenge

19 posted on 06/22/2005 5:35:27 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Jun 22, 1909 The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA, after 23 days.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Another tragic case of terminal kinetic energy poisoning.


20 posted on 06/22/2005 6:07:07 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: NormsRevenge

my first guess was "about to spill the beans about whitewater"


21 posted on 06/22/2005 6:12:47 PM PDT by isom35
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To: scott7278

"I go to pieces...."


22 posted on 06/22/2005 6:23:22 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: NormsRevenge
Thai Rak Thai Party

Sounds like Attapol may have Thai'ed one on at the rakkin' Thai Rak Thai Party.

Attapol's death will be investigaged by InterPol.

23 posted on 06/22/2005 6:31:45 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: NormsRevenge

Man still can't fly.


24 posted on 06/22/2005 11:28:01 PM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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To: thegreatbeast

"Man still can't fly."

Woman neither, apparently.


25 posted on 06/23/2005 7:51:19 AM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: NormsRevenge; rface
Sheesh...

And my original reason for buying the 1st floor condo was so that I didn't have to drag all that furniture up a flight of stairs...(plus you get a bigger patio if you live downstairs).

I guess there's other benefits I hadn't even thought of!!!!

LOL

26 posted on 06/25/2005 1:23:06 PM PDT by SavageRepublican (like springtime in Oklahoma...)
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