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Man arrested for jet ski stunt during Bangkok floods

Rank
Ran
37h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
8
Regions
3
Countries
8
Languages
3

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The Thaiger Thailand · English 28 Sept, 03:06 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · Nederlands (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 38 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Thaiger, 28 Sept, 03:06 UTC.
  2. Second country: Indonesia, with Detik.
  3. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 28 Sept, 03:06 UTC.
  4. Second region: Europe, with Euronews.
  5. Last article: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

39 of 39 hours

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The 8 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

50%38%12%

  • Asia-Pacific 4 outlets · 4 countries · 50%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 38%
  • Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 12%

First movers

  1. The Thaiger 28 Sept, 03:06 UTC
  2. Detik +34m
  3. VnExpress International +4h
  4. South China Morning Post +8h 14m
  5. Euronews +8h 24m

Last to join

  1. NU.nl 29 Sept, 17:18 UTC
  2. The Independent 29 Sept, 05:36 UTC
  3. Al Jazeera 28 Sept, 13:00 UTC
  4. Euronews 28 Sept, 11:30 UTC
  5. South China Morning Post 28 Sept, 11:20 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 8 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 2 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 4: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam. Europe 3: France, Netherlands, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Qatar. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Indonesian, Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article The Thaiger, 28 Sept 2026, 03:06 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 03:50 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 17:18 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Thailand. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Jet skier sentenced after ‘joyride’ through Bangkok’s flooded streets. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
28 Sept 2026 343 3.13 6 6 6 6 3.3
29 Sept 2026 212 6.05 8 8 2 2 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 03:50 UTC · Updated 29 Sept, 17:18 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 4 outlets

  • South China Morning Post Hong Kong 28 Sept, 11:20 UTC
    Thai man’s jet ski stunt fuels anger in ‘unequal’ Bangkok as poor hit hardest by floods
  • VnExpress International Vietnam 28 Sept, 07:06 UTC
    Jet ski rider charged for drifting through floodwaters on Bangkok main street
  • Detik Indonesia 28 Sept, 03:40 UTC
    Nge-drift Pakai Jet Ski di Tengah Banjir, Pria Bangkok Ditangkap Polisi
  • The Thaiger Thailand 28 Sept, 03:06 UTC
    Bangkok flood jet ski joyride leaves rider, cameraman charged

Europe 3 outlets

  • NU.nl Netherlands 29 Sept, 17:18 UTC
    Video | Man scheurt met jetski door overstroomde straten Bangkok
  • The Independent United Kingdom 29 Sept, 12:22 UTC
    Jet skier arrested after attempt to ‘cheer up’ locals by riding through flooded Bangkok streets
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    • Outrage after man’s jet ski stunt on water-logged Bangkok streets amid flood disaster 29 Sept, 05:36 UTC
  • Euronews France 28 Sept, 11:30 UTC
    Jet ski rider cruises through flooded streets of Bangkok

Middle East 1 outlet

  • Al Jazeera Qatar 28 Sept, 13:00 UTC
    Thai police arrest jet skier after joyride through flooded Bangkok streets
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