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  • Bizarre study trick proves fatal

    07/18/2002 6:13:04 PM PDT · by vannrox · 18 replies · 2,162+ views
    The Straits Times ^ | July 19 2002 | Editorial Staff
    JULY 19, 2002 Bizarre study trick proves fatal BANGKOK - A university student here has been found dead after a bizarre study method which involved looping a belt around his neck and fixing it to a door handle went tragically wrong. Eak Chongsawatwattana's mother said the belt kept him awake while he was studying, a trick he had learnt from other university students. If he nodded off, the jerk of the belt would wake him up. 'I warned him many times not to do this, but he just didn't listen. Now he's dead,' she said. Eak, 21, was reportedly found...