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Offline bijou

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Man drowns in election publicity stunt
« on: October 01, 2008, 09:53:16 AM »
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A publicity stunt by an underdog in the race to be governor of Bangkok went badly wrong when her campaign manager drowned as they bathed in a canal to highlight the plight of residents who have no access to clean water.

Candidate Leena Jangjanya said 32-year-old Thirasak Sitanont drowned on Thursday as she and other staff were showing journalists the rashes they got from washing in the filthy water.

"One of my staff saw him waving and crying for help, but we thought he was pretending and he was far away from us, posing for two TV crews," a sobbing Leena told Reuters.

"A few minutes later he disappeared and we had to call the police to come and find him," said Leena, who had fallen into another canal in front of the TV cameras on Wednesday as she was trying to show her support for riverboat commuters.

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080925/tod-uk-thailand-campaign-cb1d00a.html
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Re: Man drowns in election publicity stunt
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2008, 10:02:49 AM »
"hold muh tea and watch this..."
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Re: Man drowns in election publicity stunt
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2008, 12:22:13 PM »
Well.

Politics has ALWAYS been a sink or swim thing...
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Re: Man drowns in election publicity stunt
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2008, 12:24:04 PM »
This year's candidate for the Darwin Awards.
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Re: Man drowns in election publicity stunt
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2008, 09:44:32 PM »
Quote from: Peter3_1 on October 01, 2008, 12:24:04 PM
This year's candidate for the Darwin Awards.

wouldn't that be the campaign manager for the candidate for Darwin?
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Re: Man drowns in election publicity stunt
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2008, 08:54:26 AM »
The Democrats and Greens should try this to highlight Superfund sites.
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