Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes

[MI5]

This doesn't look good!

Praying for good news.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-46006470?ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_linkname=n...

[Cleoriff]

The funeral of the chairman was held in Thailand today.

The whole of LCFC flew over to be there.

They said people in Thailand just knew him as a very rich man. Now though, with the publicity surrounding his death, they are realising he was much more than that...

[Anonymous]

Anyone else beginning to feel that this outpouring of grief is a bit OTT?

No, just me? Sorry!

[MI5]

Not cool!

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
Not cool!

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Why, because some random football manager that barely anyone had heard of, except LCFC fans (even in his own country) before this tragedy is somehow being mourned like a movie star/royal/family member by the nation...

And yet some poor lad gets murdered outside a tube station and there’s not even a sniff of national grief..

I guess the accidental death of a billionaire is far more ‘tragic’ than the deaths of all 118 stabbing victims in London so far this year.

This country makes me want to throw things at times

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@MI5 wrote:
Not cool!

The deaths of all 118 stabbing victims in London so far this year ... yes @Anonymous this is tragic

The unspeakable 'cretinous' person who stabbed to death a woman in the town's local Aldi has now got his sentance reduced 

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@MI5 wrote:
Not cool!

The deaths of all 118 stabbing victims in London so far this year ... yes @Anonymous this is tragic

The unspeakable 'cretinous' person who stabbed to death a woman in the town's local Aldi has now got his sentance reduced 

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[Cleoriff]

I will just say that Vichai meant a hell of a lot to the people of Leicester and the whole footballing community.

He was apparently, a kind and extremely generous man. He raised the club from the doldrums and was the reason they found themselves in the Premier league. He also gave millions to charity.

So I expect Leicester and LCFC will grieve his loss for a long long time.

That said, I don't see many people grieving the loss of the other 5 in the same way. The pilot, who avoided a disaster by bringing the copter down in a safe place, was a hero in my opinion.

So @Anonymous I do get your point, particularly in regard to people who get stabbed and killed and it now becoming commonplace.  Rarely gets a mention.

As for his funeral, as is the custom in Thailand, the mourning will go on for a lot longer than we see as the norm here in the UK.....

[Glory1]

While I do get your point @Anonymous you can't really compare the 118 stabbings in London with what happened in Leicester. The stabbings were murder or attempted murder pure and simple. The helicopter crash in Leicester a tragic accident.

Vichai might not have been known to you, or to me if I'm honest but, as said, he meant a great deal to LCFC and the people of Leicester. So I can understand their grief. I don't think anyone is expecting national mourning here, whatever takes place in his home country of Thailand.

It's a pity the other occupants of the helicopter are not being mourned in the same way, though I'm sure they will be by their families. 

As for the stabbings in London, it has, unfortunately, become too commonplace which people have become immune to. In spite of it being a criminal offence to carry a knife, many still do with the full intention of doing harm, either to someone they know or a total stranger. I honestly don't know what can be done. Longer prison sentences certainly, but you have to catch the b3stards first. There are just too many thugs about who care little about human life, theirs or anyone else's.

[jonsie]

It's difficult to compare one tragedy with another. Let's not forget the tragic fire at Greenfell, culpability by the various government bodies and the builders which is of no comfort to the 73 victims and the survivors and which was in the news (still is) for months. Let's not forget Hillsborough and the 96 victims, enquiry still going on some 22 years later.

People mourn in different ways but this man touched so many people by his kindness and generosity not only here in the UK but the footballing people in Thailand. The staff in the LCFC stores in both Bangkok and Pattaya face an uncertain future but that won't stop them mourning Khun Vichai. The fact that the Leicester players are going make the funeral even bigger news both here and in my homeland.

He founded King Power and made his millions from duty-free but received the Royal Warrant from King Bhumibol so he was well revered before the LCFC era. Not just anyone would be in lying in state for a week or maybe more.

The funeral will be covered until the players are back in this country and I guess for the rest of this football season there will be further TV coverage of events both here and in Thailand.

At least you won't have to watch it on tv @Anonymous

[Anonymous]

Some eloquent replies here, so I’ll try to reply in the same way.

@Cleoriff You’re right, we are a footballing nation & the country will grieve accordingly, but again you raise the point that there were 4 others who also died in the accident but I don’t see much mention of them & their funerals & if is, it’s a fleeting mention. It feels (to me) that the country, maybe even the world values the life of one more than another. 

@Glory1 You say we can’t compare the deaths of 118 v 5, and I understand your thinking. But why is a tragic accident worthy of mourning & yet 118 victims of 118 different crimes aren’t?

Is it, The highly emotive video / pictures of the fireball in Leicester, something we don’t tend to see everyday, which grabs the heart strings, Or is it the fact that one person gets murdered every three days (on average) in London that makes it ‘something that just happens’ & unworthy of our attention?

@jonsie I understood from the media that he wasn’t really known for his endeavours back in Thailand, more that he was just another rich businessman, if that was incorrect then I apologise! 

You mention Grenfell, that’s another image forever engrained on the population, why? presumably because you don’t see a tower block on fire everyday. (And the death toll) An interesting article HERE about previous tower block tragedies, which didn’t grab the nations heartstrings. The victims, just statistics. 

To anyone who read my original post. It wasn’t to provoke or suggest grief wasn’t allowed, Just that I thought it seemed out of proportion.

But having read these replies, maybe I should think a little harder before posting... but I’m glad I did because others have shared their thoughts and feelings, and in turn adjusted my thinking! So thank you!