Tata Motors MD falls from Bangkok hotel

[Karee 4,191]

Tata Motors Ltd (TTMT), India’s biggest automaker, said its managing director Karl Slym died in Bangkok.

Karl Slym, managing director of Tata Motors Ltd, speaks during the launch of the company's Indigo Manza club class sedan in Mumbai on Oct 16, 2012. (Bloomberg photo)

Slym, 51, fell from the city’s Shangri-La hotel, where he was staying, a spokeswoman at the Mumbai-based company said by telephone on Sunday, without elaborating. The Englishman, who joined Tata Motors in 2012 after a 17-year stint at General Motors Co, had gone to Bangkok to attend a board meeting of Tata Motors Thailand Ltd, the automaker said in an e-mailed statement.

Slym, who joined Tata Motors from GM’s Chinese unit, headed the company’s operations excluding the Jaguar Land Rover luxury unit amid the worst slowdown in more than a decade in Asia’s third-biggest economy. He sought to reposition the failing Nano as a "second car" after buyers shunned the US$2,300 compact pitched as an inexpensive alternative to motor scooters.

"Karl was beginning to make long-term changes at Tata Motors," Vikas Sehgal, managing director for the automotive sector at Rothschild & Sons in London, said in a telephone interview. "His loss will be felt deeply by Tata Motors."

Net income climbed 71% to 35.4 billion rupees ($566 million) in the three months ended Sept 30, beating analyst estimates, as sales at the Jaguar Land Rover unit jumped, outweighing a loss at the automaker’s domestic division. Sales at Tata Motors' Indian unit declined 29% in the period.

Slym was the second GM executive to be appointed managing director at Tata Motors. The company previously hired Carl-Peter Forster in 2010 from GM in Europe. Forster quit after less than two years at the company.

"Karl was providing strong leadership at a challenging time for the Indian auto industry," Tata Motors chairman Cyrus P Mistry said in the statement.

India's automakers' body, which has forecast the first annual drop in passenger vehicle sales in more than a decade, said this month the industry was still going through a rough time as an economic slowdown damps demand for cars and SUVs. The nation’s passenger vehicle sales slid 5.7% in the nine months ended Dec 31, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers reported Jan 9.

Source: http://bangkokpost.com/news/local/391604/tata-motors-md-slym-dies-after-fall-from-hotel-in-bangkok

Another foreigner falls/commits suicide from a high rise hotel in Thailand. This is a very common way to die if you're a foreigner in Thailand, especially if you get mixed up with the wrong girl. I wonder if the cops will actually investigate this one, or just chalk it up as another suicide/accident? Probably not. They'll more than likely come out with some lame statement saying something like "This is how foreigners usually commit suicide"

[Karee 4,191]

A foreign man was found hanging from an electric pole in a suspected suicide in Klong Toei district at about 6am yesterday, police said.

Police rushed to the scene near the Sukhumvit-Rama IV expressway to find a body of an unidentified man. He was 1.8 metres tall, of fair-complexion with brown hair, wearing a black T-shirt, brown pants and black dress shoes, Lieutenant Kavipong Saengreung of Lumpini police station said.

The man’s head was covered with a plastic bag tied with masking tape. He was found hanging by nylon rope from 25-metre-tall electric pole.

“We suspect suicide, partly because Westerners usually kill themselves like this,” said Lumpini superintendent, Colonel Suphisarn Pakdinarunart.

The policeman presumed that the man might be German because the plastic bag belonged to a German brand ‘Manner’. However, evidence including his fingerprints and photos would be sent to the country to establish who he was.

The man was thought to have been dead for at least two hours, the officer said. A cigarette burn was found on his right palm, and he had Bt230 cash in his pocket. Three water bottles, one roll of masking tape and a plastic bag were found about two metres away. Police suspect the man may have bought these items in preparation to commit suicide.

The man’s body was sent for an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death, police said. – The Nation

Source:http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/60880-farang-found-dead/?p=652078

One of my all time favorites. Especially the part about how westerners usually kill themselves this way.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

This is a very common way to die if you're a foreigner in Thailand, especially if you get mixed up with the wrong girl.

are you suggesting wrong girl = not really a girl?

[Karee 4,191]

are you suggesting wrong girl = not really a girl?

I'm suggesting that if you get mixed up with a girl of any sort out of the bar, make sure your hotel room is on the 1st or 2nd floor.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

I'm suggesting that if you get mixed up with a girl of any sort out of the bar, make sure your hotel room is on the 1st or 2nd floor.

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