somewhereinengland

geriatrickid, on 2010-09-03 09:06:55, said:

Which one seems more likely:

a) 25 year old person who works in insurance/gas/electricity/phone line telesales and decided against travel insurance, comes to party in Thailand and does a bit of work as an English teacher now and then, without a work permit, to keep the party money up. Got drunk and had a motorbike accident.

25 year old who was too dumb to buy travel insurance, but was smart enough to be able to get a long-term visa whilst in the Thailand, then sufficiently well-connected so as to be able to get a work permit for a sales job where he either sold products to Thai businesses or spent his days calling UK numbers on Skype.

I really don't think Geriatrickid is the one embarrassing themselves.

Several prominent UK charities have taken up  Mr Moss's cause; Headway, the head injury charity and the Virgin charity.
Mediaviation  which does evacuation flights is also raising funds.


As reported in the press, Mr Moss, a telesales worker, from Tooting, south London, went out to Thailand at the start of this year and spent six months travelling before his accident about a fortnight ago.    

Another version is;   Mr Moss, who lived in Franciscan Road and worked in telesales, went to south east Asia six months ago to travel - working occasionally to support himself. The crash happened during a night out in Chiang Mai, a province in northern Thailand popular with backpackers.

I wonder what exactly his "job" in Thailand  was and the condition he was in while on his motorbike.  I doubt he had a work permit.
Although I do sympathize with his mother who has flown to Thailand to care for him, I do wonder why people are expected to pay for his medical care because he chose not to carry health insurance? I would be more compassionate if he was jammed up because his policy did not respond or was inadequate. He made the decision not to have insurance. Not nice I know, but people don't like nanny states. Fine, thenthey should  take responsibility for their lives.