Para-sailing ‘beat up’ in UK press

OPINION

A story from metro.co.uk shows a ‘terrified toddler’ being ‘forced’ to take a parasailing flight on Patong Beach.

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The headlines blasts ‘Father forces terrified toddler to go paragliding with him in Thailand’.

In the ‘Beat Up of The Day’, the Metro article has somehow turned a bad parenting story into a Patong Beach and Parasail Operator-bashing session.

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It might certainly be argued that taking a two-year-old up in a Parasail ride is inappropriate and dangerous (especially in Phuket). The article claims that the child was ‘no more than two years old’ but it wasn’t confirmed. I imagine there should be an age/height limit, minimum, for people going on these rides.

A witness, David Carlyle, says ‘They all had absolutely no concern about what they just did to that poor little girl.

‘The parasailing companies around Phuket are very aggressive in signing up customers and as you can see do not care in the least who signs up as long as they are paying!’

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Para-sailing 'beat up' in UK press | News by Thaiger
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Read the story yourself and make up your own mind.

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2017/08/16/father-forces-terrified-toddler-to-go-paragliding-with-him-in-thailand-6856554/#ixzz4pywQCaO3

 

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Tim Newton

Tim joined The Thaiger as one of its first employees in 2018 as an English news writer/editor and then began to present The Thaiger's Daily news show in 2020, Thailand News Today (or TNT for short). He has lived in Thailand since 2011, having relocated from Australia.

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