Best Posts in Thread: U.S retired soldier shot dead

You shouldn't be jogging anyways. Humans only have a set amount of energy to spend in their lifetime. Best to just lay in bed eating cheeseburgers and sending out tweets. But I think you already knew that.

The options are pretty limited on why a someone would be shot. It is rare for someone to be shot for no reason anywhere in the world.

It was a completely random shooting/mugging. (Unlikely...who carries money around while jogging.)
It was terrorist related. (I doubt that.)
It was a random hate/racist crime. (Possible but highly unlikely.)
It was drug related. (Drug dealers/users usually aren't all that concerned with early morning PT.)
It was someone who lost face that was getting even. (More likely.)
It was a jealous SO; either gf, wife or one of their bfs. (Equally likely.)
It was someone who stood to gain financially from his death....wife, gf, business partner or any combination of the mentioned. (Equally likely.)

Only 3 options are likely IMO. Shouldn't be that hard to figure out. I'd be looking really hard at the "family" and anyone he recently had an altercation with.

 

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Thailand sure does seem to have an large number of expat "suicides". Seems almost every week a foreigner or two manage to fall off of their condo balcony and splat on the concrete. Such an issue there that the apartment/hotel I was staying at in my last trip there had netting placed anywhere there was a possibility for a fatal fall.

I think the long nose murder rates might go down quite a bit in the Philippines if their were more high rise buildings. I know if I were to ever buy a condo I sure af wouldn't buy one higher than the 3rd floor.



It seems per capita, at least on the surface, Thailand is more dangerous. However, it is hard to tell how many actual long nose Americans are murdered given that there are a whole lot more Filipino-Americans than there are Thai-Americans. I bet if you excluded dual citizenship from that number (and also excluded their deaths) the Philippines may top Thailand....but that is just speculation, I don't think there are stats to back that up.

Maybe if someone could find the death rates for long noses from countries with much less Filipino dual citizenship the numbers may better reflect the actual risks.

Baclayon looks to be a fairly small place (4th class municipality). It shouldn't be too hard for the police to figure this one out if they put their minds to it. Hopefully this man's family gets some justice.