Tourist cleans Thailand streets out of love

**boloa** · 27-02-2015, 12:07 PM

Tourist cleans Thailand streets out of love

(CNN)There are many reasons to visit Thailand.

Some want to swim at Ko Phi Phi, where Leonardo DiCaprio found beauty (though not quite bliss) in "The Beach."

Some want to see if the pad thai in the Chang Mai night market tastes better than it does at their favorite Thai restaurant back home. (It does.)

According to Thai public broadcasting service MCOT (Thai only), however, a German tourist has been coming to the country annually for the last six years for an entirely different reason.

To clean up the mess.

Peter Rudi Festerling, a 55-year-old professional janitor from Berlin, spends most of his vacation time in Udon Thani in northeastern Thailand doing what he does at home. Spiffing up the joint.

Festerling was recently caught in action washing phone booths in front of the Charoen Hotel, where he often stays.

The pictures ended up on Udon Thani's community Facebook page.... https://www.facebook.com/udonthaniup...58604380901333

Most Thai Facebook commenters on the Udon Thani community page have applauded the fastidious Samaritan, saying he sets a good example for society.

Nice job: Peter Rudi Festerling

Facebook user Sinalii Nizza Pirane commented that the governor of Udon Thani Province should present Festerling with a certificate recognizing his contributions to the province's capital city.

"So cute," commented another. "I want to meet him and give him some water and a cold towel."

Yearly clean-up vacation

According to an MCOT report, at some point during a visit to Udon Thani the German vacationer "felt uneasy with the untidy scene so he started to clean up."

Asked why spends parts of his vacations picking up garbage and scrubbing dirty public areas, Festerling says it's because "he loves Thailand."

He reports that locals are often kind to him, offering him water and taking his photo.

Festerling has been spotted rigged out in full gardener's gear mowing weeds on sidewalks, in industrial coveralls sweeping garbage and even directing traffic, according to MCOT.

The traveling janitor is now back in Germany but says he'll continue his yearly visits to Thailand -- scrub brush in hand.

Tourist cleans Thailand streets out of love - CNN.com

**kmart** · 27-02-2015, 12:34 PM

Nice one, Fritz.

Wish he'd come down our way and start cleaning up the mountains of plastic bags and garbage, snack wrappers etc, that the local populace of transient feckless dolts see fit to drop as soon as they've popped the contents into their slack-jawed bovine gobs.

**Horatio Hornblower** · 27-02-2015, 01:01 PM

Does he have a work visa, ? the junta will be along soon to make the arrest.

**Hans Mann** · 27-02-2015, 04:04 PM

Now, if only a german electrician would show up to sort out the tangled mess of overhead wires, a dutch plumber to sort out the drainage, and a couple of brit cops to control the traffic lights, Udonthani could apply for EU membership.

**taxexile** · 27-02-2015, 04:10 PM

this squarehead is obviously a barking mad fruitcake.

**Davis Knowlton** · 27-02-2015, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by taxexile

this squarehead is obviously a barking mad fruitcake.

My thoughts precisely.

cnx37 · 27-02-2015, 04:22 PM

Similar to a Christian missionary in LOS?

**Lash LaRue** · 27-02-2015, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by taxexile

this squarehead is obviously a barking mad fruitcake.

So you've never picked up a bit of trash! You must be a real messy little piggy!
Congratulations!

**boloa** · 27-02-2015, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Lash LaRue

Originally Posted by taxexile

this squarehead is obviously a barking mad fruitcake.

So you've never picked up a bit of trash! You must be a real messy little piggy!
Congratulations!

Most of the Thai youngsters in our Village speak very little English, I get the odd 'Good Morning' ( normally said as they come home from school in the afternoon ) ..........BUT they all know what " Put your rubbish in the bin " means

**bsnub** · 27-02-2015, 05:38 PM

Germans are clean freaks and this is just a weird fetish I would guess...

**taxexile** · 27-02-2015, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by Lash LaRue

Originally Posted by taxexile

this squarehead is obviously a barking mad fruitcake.

So you've never picked up a bit of trash! You must be a real messy little piggy!
Congratulations!

look around you and you will see that the majority of thai have no regard whatsoever for their environment, befouling it at every opportunity.

i have no rights here, and no permissions to engage in a prohibited profession and therefore it is not for me to engage in the herculean task of cleaning up the droppings of the thai.

**thaimeme** · 27-02-2015, 06:52 PM

Damn Foreigners.....

**bsnub** · 27-02-2015, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by Lash LaRue

Originally Posted by taxexile

this squarehead is obviously a barking mad fruitcake.

So you've never picked up a bit of trash! You must be a real messy little piggy!
Congratulations!

Hi jet!

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