By
Mary Mcconnell

Last updated during 11:38 AM upon 8th Jan 2012

A Briton was killed by an electric startle as he took a bottle of H2O from a fridge in Thailand.

Friends pronounced Grant Harrison, 36, from London, had been relaxing by a pool prior to he went to a fridge for a bottle as good as perceived a deadly startle upon a island of Koh Phangan.

He had arrived in a country usually during a New Year as good as had been formulation to travel around with his girlfriend.

Fatal shock: Middlesborough air blower Grant Harrison was electrocuted after reaching to take a bottle of H2O from a fridge while upon legal legal legal legal legal holiday in Thailand

Yesterday evening, 200 messages of upraise were left to Mr Harrison, creatively from Stokesley, North Yorkshire upon an online football forum.

The constant Middlesbrough FC air blower had changed to London in new years, though continually contributed to a club’s fanzine ‘Fly Me To The Moon’, posting comments underneath a name ‘Grantus’.

He was additionally a unchanging player in a annual gift football compare in assist of a Bobby Robson Foundation.

Winter break: Grant Harrison was killed upon a halcyon Thai island of Koh Phangan, where he was enjoying a legal legal legal legal legal holiday with his girlfriend

Rob Nichols, editor of a fanzine said: ‘He was a genuine character. In games, he was possibly a stately disaster or he would measure a thespian late penalty.

‘I knew him for some-more than 10 years as good as he will be severely missed.’

A associate Boro fan, essay upon a website underneath a name ‘Lisbonlegend’ paid reverence observant : ‘He told me he was starting travelling for a bit in a New Year, over to Thailand as good as more, to suffer hold up for a bit.

‘He was relaxing by a pool, motionless to go for a bottle of H2O as good as it price him his life.He was a illusory crony as good as a shining character.

‘I am starting to skip a unequivocally great crony as good as I’m all gutted he won’t get a possibility to measure during a Riverside similar to he desperately wanted.

‘RIP Grant, I’ll unequivocally skip we mate.’

A mouthpiece for a Foreign as good as Commonwealth Office said: ‘We can endorse a genocide of a British inhabitant in Koh Phangan, Thailand. We have been upon condition which consular benefit for subsequent of kin.’

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I have lived in Thailand for roughly 10 years as good as know what we am articulate about. There is NO courtesy here for safety, NOTHING is ever finished about it, as good as NO-ONE is ever hold to comment or punished for these arrange of simply avoidable accidents.

- Mac, Bangkok, Thailand, 08/1/2012 16:22

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Am we astounded good no as Nothing electrical is earthed in Thailand. RIP

- fredob ex London, London england, 08/1/2012 15:47

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Sad to see nonetheless an additional legal legal legal legal legal holiday deadliness though tourists should be wakeful which Thailands electrical system, being mostly un-grounded, i.e. 2 pin, is potentially fatal as good as is not helped by a actuality which most appliances have been plugged in to multi indicate adaptors. we once got an electric startle while receiving a showering in a Phuket road residence as good as since afterwards I’ve propitious an RCD breaker box in any residence I’ve assigned to equivocate this kind of danger.
Visitors to Thailand, or any likewise connected countries dont have a choice to do this though we should check your unit or road residence room for any signs of dodgy electric wires or appliances as good as have certain they get bound right divided – or pierce to an additional room.

- Thailandallan, Krabi, Thailand, 08/1/2012 15:41

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Everything is 240 V over here. Nothing is grounded. When they contend he was killed by a “faulty” fridge they do not meant inadequate by Thai Standards usually British standards. In Thailand it would have been surprising if it had been grounded. we do not know a sum though we would gamble a couple of hundred pounds he had unclothed soppy feet as good as thus finished a good transmitter to ground. A span of flip flops would have saved his life. Pity really. They should short tourists prior to they come over here. Nothing is to be finished about it. Thailand won’t change.

http://myfishsauce.blogspot.com/2011/12/thailand-is-back-2011-chiang-mai-hot.html

- Richard Baird, Chiang Mai Thailand, 08/1/2012 15:40

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You could assistance your readers equivocate this place as good as assure during slightest a little probity in a form of mislaid commercial operation by fixing a hotel/resort during which he died. The Thai media positively will not do so, if they cover a story during all.

- Robert, Sattahip, Thailand, 08/1/2012 13:28

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A year ago we checked in to a road residence in a farming partial of Thailand. As shortly as a steel partial of a showering was touched, a room’s RCD (which was a usually circuit breaker portion a room), tripped. After resetting it, a steel partial was grounded around a square of earthed wire. The RCD tripped again. we forked out a complaint to a staff, as good as insisted upon being changed to an additional room. Ten mins later, an additional guest was since a room. Be really clever in this partial of a world! Safety standards with courtesy to physical phenomenon are, to put it mildly, appalling, as good as we verbalise as a single who has outlayed a lifetime operative with electronics/electrics.

- CliffH, Pattaya, Thailand, 08/1/2012 13:18

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Thailand is a third universe nation as good as when spin upon anything. Make certain we have rubber solitary boots on. There’s no earth tie here as good as never will be.
RIP to an additional tourist.

- Gary Linsell, Jomtien, Thailand, 08/1/2012 13:10

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Unfortunatly this happens all a time here ,as electical appliances have been frequency earthed as good as a customary of wireing is deplorable during most appropriate , RIP

- left world labour, thailand, 08/1/2012 12:58

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That’s Thailand!

- Paul Holbourneaul, Chiang Mai Thailand, 08/1/2012 12:48

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there have been no BS standards in which partial of Middle East counsel is indispensable impassioned counsel in all we do !!!

- EXFORCES, FARFROMTHEMADDINGCROWED, 08/1/2012 12:43

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