A man who laid down in front of an oncoming train at Petchaburi station, lived to tell the tale.
In fact he was completely unhurt despite CCTV appearing to show he must have been cut in two in the apparent suicide attempt.
Some Thais online commented he must have had a lot of amulets around his neck – but one news source said he had none and it was probably an optical illusion.
The drama was caught on two different angles of CCTV at the busy station yesterday evening.
In the first clip the man in a green shirt and jeans emerges from some platform plants to lie down on the track as the Thonburi to Prajuab train arrives.
People move away in horror not wishing to see what they thought was inevitable.
But in a second clip from another angle the man gets up and runs out of the station. Someone viewing the CCTV can be heard to say in Thai: “That’s incredible!”
Thai News Agency reported that medics arrived at the station expecting to find a corpse but they found nothing. However, police found the man concerned sitting by the road nearby. He is 23 year old Wirachai Nisairam from Buriram. He was largely incoherent and unable to say what had happened.
Locals told police that he had been wandering about the area for the last 2 or three days and had tried to harm himself before. He was rambling that he had no work and was stressed out.
Police took him to nearby Phra Jorm Klao Hospital where he was found to have just a slight cut on his leg and no internal injuries.
Doctors assessed that he was suffering from depression.
TNA suggested that the first video was some kind of optical illusion.
(Source: Thai News Agency, Sanuk)