A man in Rayong, Thailand, died surrounded by over a hundred empty beer bottles after shunning food and living on the alcoholic drink alone for over a month.
Last week, rescue workers from the Siam Rayong Foundation were called to a house in the Ban Chang district of Rayong to help a man who had reportedly suffered a seizure and later became unconscious. Unfortunately, by the time they arrived on the scene, the patient had already passed away. He was identified as 44-year 44-year-old Thaweesak Namwongsa, a divorced local man and father to a 16-year-old boy. According to the teenager, Namwongsa had been drinking only beer for over a month, and when he came home from school one day, he found him having a seizure in his bed, surrounded by empty beer bottles.
When rescue workers arrived on the scene, they found over 100 empty beer bottles neatly arranged on the bedroom floor with only a narrow path between them, which allowed the man to get in and out of his bed. The man’s son told police that he cooked hot meals for his father every day when he came from school, but he refused to eat anything and had been living on beer alone for over a month.
Although the man’s son didn’t know about any underlying health condition he might of had, he did mention that Thaweesak Namwongsa had taken refuge in drinking to get over a divorce. It is suspected that this emotional strain may have led him to replace food with beer.
While rich in calories, beer lacks essential nutrients, and relying on it as a food replacement poses serious risks, including nutrient deficiency and liver damage, because of its alcohol content. Health experts warn that beer should be consumed in moderation. That being said, some people have been known to live on beer alone for over a month, especially before Lent.
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/thai-man-dies-after-surviving-on-beer-alone-for-over-a-month.html
>>21485026 (OP)he'd probably been drinking daily for much longer than that and died of plain old DTs. giving up food altogether is just a late stage of a protracted drinking problem.
why are you pasting whole news articles into /ck/
why are you linking to articles directly and not a pastebin
>>21485070Who the fuck can even keep track of the Isreal agenda at this point. This is probably meant to trigger some AI identified minority group in an attempt to create animosity.
>>21485026 (OP)Only 100 bottles? So he was only drinking about three a day? That isn't enough beer to live on.
>>21485202"Over 100" you illiterate swine
>>21485026 (OP)Floor guys didn't wanna go with the staggered look? Bold
i'm assuming because he lives in thailand he was malnourished otherwise he would have lasted longer
>>21485026 (OP)>over a hundred empty beer bottles>over a monthlet's say it was 120 beer bottles in 35 days
120/35 = 3.4 beers a day. Pish posh.
>>21485298>let's say it was 120 beer bottlesYeah, if you "say" it's way less than it clearly actually is, it sounds less impressive.
>>21485298he could have been taking out the trash throughout the month and those hundred were just the ones that accumulated since the last trash day. for all we know he had taken out the trash just a day or two before.
>>21485298>let's say it was 120There's like 500 bottles visible in that photo alone
>>21485026 (OP)I drink 100 beers every week lmao pussy
>>21485322eh, count a small section and work-out by area how much more there is and you'll find there's maybe 220 bo'les
pussy shit
>>21485026 (OP)So, did he die of scurvy? Because it seems hard to believe that you could consume enough beer fast enough to get alcohol poisoning.
>>21485479malnutrition, dehydration, organ failure... not eating for a month and only drinking diuretics will fuck your chemistry up something fierce I reckon
>>21485479He probably died of complications arising from sodium deficiency, organ swelling and such. There's basically no salt in beer, and he's drinking literal gallons of water every day for over a month. The actual alcohol probably didn't contribute as much as the sheer nutrient imbalance.
>>21485034god i wish i lived in romania or mexico or whatever
I count 194 bottles on the left and 239 on the right, for a total of 433 bottles in frame
Probably a few more hidden by the door on the left side and the mattress on the right side
>>21485031That's how it works. Problem? Anyway, based on the fact that he died from a seizure I think the issue is actually that he ran out of beer.
What a terribly written news article.
Journalists think they are fucking Agatha Christie now.
>>21485026 (OP)mogged by Bavarian Catholic monks that did it longer and didn't die
>>21485514brother it's Oddity Central dot com, and this article is sorted under their "spooky" tag. what do you expect here
>>21485516Hell, mogged by an ohiogod linked at the bottom of that article
>https://www.odditycentral.com/news/ohio-man-gives-up-solid-food-lives-on-beer-alone-for-lent.html
>>21485510Seizure could have been from brain swelling. I don't even think it's possible to achieve death-by-seizure levels of alcoholism just by drinking beer.
>>21485537Definitely. I saved that to my battlestations folder straight off
He got custody of his son, I know most married people are suicidal but somehow this drunk was a better parent than the wife.
>>21485552Idk much about Thailand but it’s possible they don’t have the same custody protocol as the west.
Looks like he had money.
>>21485070why would I use pastebin?
>>21485803So you don't seem like an odditycentral.com shill
>>21485552Custody, nor alimony exists really in Thailand.
Extreme patterned behavior and bottle hoarding may indicate a mental disorder.
>>21485026 (OP)>The man’s son told police that he cooked hot meals for his father every day when he came from school, but he refused to eat anythingThis is just sad. Why did you feel the need to post this on cook. It’s just a sad story about a father drinking himself to death over a divorce
>>21485026 (OP)Poor guy. Ozzy lived until 74 doing the same thing
>>21485853It’s just some fuckwit writer who is a little too liberal with poetic license.
Notice “the boy said to police”, when the author interviewed the kid.
Sounds like the guy was a long term alcoholic, possibly why his wife left him.
>>21485026 (OP)literally me except no ex wife, and no kid to find me
>>21485298They're big bottles.
It's more like bit over a six pack, still nothing
>>21485053Yeah, lack of appetite is a symptom of liver disease. If you want to survive beyond your 40s as a hardcore alcoholic, you need to eat real food and take vitamins. Alcohol destroys your bodies ability to absorb nutrients, so you have to compensate.
Also yeah, if you’ve been drinking heavily for a long time, and stop suddenly, you can have withdrawals that can cause seizures and kill you (delirium tremens). You have to taper off gradually.
>>21485192Looks like Singha, the most popular beer in Thailand. It’s a pretty average 5% abv lager. It’s pretty good, but nothing special.
>>21485034The horse is the one driving, it knows the way to the liquor store and back home very well. That guy is fucking useless, a hopeless alcoholic.
>>21485026 (OP)Hey hardcore Al/ck/ies remember to eat more than a few potato chips a day when the bottle turns your appetite off.
>>21486814well, some might say its good enough to die for
>>21486924Salted tomato slices are the optimal supplement to the beer diet
>>21486976who would say that carlos?
I lived with a guy who lived like this for a while, pic related. Worst fucking time of my life. Out of frame around the corner to the left is the vile pyramid of 1/3 full moldy beer cans spawning infinity fruit flies. Thank you for reading my blog.
>>21487026>Out of frame to the left is the vile pyramid moldy beer cansThanks for taking the photo vertically so we can see more of the empty wall instead of the actual subject
if i leave one beer bottle in my room the smell irritates me. that room must have had the most stale vinegar smell in the world, maybe worse than i can imagine considering the heat of that place.
>>21487029It was a quick snap while I was deciding whether to clean the mess myself or commit a murder, it is what it is.
>>21487038Here's the contents of all the beer cans
>>21487040Turn your fucking exposure down holy shit
>>21487045I just use the default settings on the phone camera mane. Here's all the cans bagged up
>>21487057>Here's all the cans bagged upWhere? Next to those patches of solid white glare?
>>21485026 (OP)>that swerving pathThis dudes so good at drinking he knows his natural sway
>>21487026I never understood how people could develop alcoholism drinking light beer.
It just takes so much to get drunk, and you have to piss constantly. I switched to liquor pretty much as soon as I graduated from casual drinking adolescent to alcoholic.
>>21487199Because the buzz has a sweet spot.
You drink to reach it, and then you drink to stay there. With spirits you overshoot it.
>>21485812I don't care if you think that
>>21485245It looks like they did elsewhere on the floor. Maybe the seams indicate panels, they lift up to reveal storage for more beer.
>>21485543Looks like it's from one of those battle station threads on /g/
>>21487438Well, I suppose, but sticking that image in copilot took all of two seconds
>>21485530Looks like it's from one of those battle station threads on/g/
>>21486915Bro how are people not doing this everywhere?
>have a horse and buggy>horse knows how to get home so you can get black out drunk at the bar and he will drive you home >no gas needed just need to feed it apples or whatever
>>21487026>>21487057i've lived like this before but i would gather the bottles up occasionally and toss them into this room i had in the house that was just a big unfinished space with a sump pump. out of sight out of mind.
>>21487514Why not just throw it in the trash?
>>21485026 (OP)See? I knew it was a good decision to stay virgin
>>21487608>I'm avoiding sex so I can also avoid drinking hundreds of beers until I dieSounds like you're just missing out twice
>>21487205This is why I run the combo, a nice glass of liquor to get started then switch to light beer. Reach the target as fast as possible and hold it as long as possible. Perfectly optimized method.
>>21487496This is what self driving cars are promising to bring us back to, but they never will. we have to retvrn to horse
>>21485026 (OP)RIP should've taken his vitagummies
>>21487496You can still be charged with DUI on a horse
>>21487205>Because the buzz has a sweet spot.>You drink to reach it, and then you drink to stay there. With spirits you overshoot it.This. I did literally this for 17 years playing MMOs.
I wasnt that bad only 6 or 7 beers a night, but a Paladin in my guild used to smash a 24 pack every night. Cunt used to casually press all his buffs to go ninja-afk to piss during boss fights.
There is a non zero chance that you can actually live on beer alone, and his stroke was unrelated to his beer diet. Maybe the sadness got him.
>>21488346Monks used to survive on homebrewed beer because it was basically liquid bread, it had the same nutritional profile as bread but with probiotics from the yeast. Modern, filtered beer is devoid of nutrients though. Plus alcohol has a negative effect on Vitamin B1 and B12 levels, among other nutrients, which fucks up your nervous system and can possibly lead to stroke. It's possible he didn't even know he was dying at the end, his brain was fried.
>>21488364>rayong, thailandhis brain might've been fried before he even had his first beer.
the house is quite nice for thailand tho
>>21485031I'll probably get colon cancer after surviving Crohn's disease
>>21485034Cool random encounter, bravo Rockstar
>>21487561felt feeble and easily exhausted 24/7, taking the trash out probably would've given me a heart attack. i don't drink anymore.
>>21486915Sounds like a great premise for a story or movie desu
>>21488302If feel like you could probably skirt that charge if you really tried.
>pass out in the back of the buggy>horse starts "driving" somewhereTechnically you're not "operating" anything, the horse is.
>>21485034reminds my of my Sundays while i was on a farm
>>21488302Not if your dog is driving
>>21485530jesus christ, threw up in my mouth a little after seeing that bed
Only 100 in a whole month? This guy just starved himself to death. This isn't alcoholism and I won't stand for it. Alcoholics survive on 100 drinks a week for years.
>>21485530Steep those bedsheets in hot water and you've got some nice Thai Drunken Noodle broth going.
>>21487057You could've bought another case of beers selling those cans.
>>21487011There's only one Thai liquor worth drinking and we all know what it is
>>21485543You used AI for this, right, anon?
