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geriatrickid, on 2010-09-03 08:12:56, said:

Oh do me a favour, please.

What a cold and heartless post.

This kid has been left paralysed and blinded. A fate worse than death for someone so young.

And no way do you sympathize with the mother, and the pain and heartache she must be going through. How could you when you make comments such as this? Who cares if the kid had a work permit or adequate insurance coverage.

I just wonder if you would say the same if this were your child. My money would be on that you would expect people to have sympathy and perhaps show kindness and help.

Use some tact, please, because maybe the relatives are reading this.

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.