American Tourist Phillip Rolen Dies After Night of Heavy Drinking on Pub Street in Siem Reap, Cambodia

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American Tourist Phillip Rolen Dies After Night of Heavy Drinking on Pub Street in Siem Reap, Cambodia

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American Tourist Phillip Houston Rolen from Texas Found Dead on Hotel Floor

Siem Reap, Cambodia: At around 6:20am on Sunday a hotel security guard spotted a body of a foreigner near Lean Chol Domrei hotel located in Svay Dankom commune, Siem Reap city. Police said, the foreigner's name is Phillip Houston Rollen, male, 34 years old. He arrived In Siem Reap on Saturday and had been staying in that hotel with his wife. His wife told police that, her husband had been drinking from the evening that day before until the early morning the next day, on Siem Reap's popular Pub Street. Police assume that the victim had consumed too much alcohol, which caused him to have heart attack and then fall on the floor, which caused him to have a stroke.

The body is currently being kept at Royal Angkor Hospital.
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Another one. 34 years old. RIP.
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OK, maybe it really was a heart attack this time.

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According to Phil Rolen's old pastor, he and his wife were on a mission trip in Cambodia when he died.
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Yeah he was definitely on a mission.
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Re: American Tourist Phillip Rolen Dies After Night of Heavy Drinking on Pub Street in Siem Reap, Cambodia

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Oh! You can dig up dirt so fast?

This is much slower

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

... but the mug shots are a delight - Bowie, Janis Joplin and so on (enough to keep a bored browser happy for hours)
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Talking of mugshots, this one is memorable -

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/c ... nis-joplin

Slightly fogged film and/or tired chemicals makes the viewer immediately think
of a much earlier era of photography.
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At 34 years of age, I doubt the deceased had ever heard of Janis Joplin.

PLEASE, try to stay on topic.
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Username Taken wrote:At 34 years of age, I doubt the deceased had ever heard of Janis Joplin.

PLEASE, try to stay on topic.

To be fair, just at the start of the month when we had a specific thread, asking if we should remain on topic on threads, I think I was the only one who said Yes.

Everybody else agreed that it was fine to let the "conversation" wander as people saw fit
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Looks like Phil Rolen was a Trump supporter:

http://mediatrackers.org/author/philrolen

Or is that a common name in Texas?
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