The Dogs Land

[Dougal]

A chap near us in HH has built himself a nice house with an eight foot fence running for about 70 metres down the side. As the land slopes down and he didn't want to put a lot of fill in the wall is tepped down with the slope of the land.

All fine and dandy except that during the summer someone bought the piece of land next to hiim and decided that he DID want a nice flat piece of land so the guy who built himslef a nice eight foot wall for a bit of privacy now has a wall eight foot tall on his side and four foot tall on the other at the upper end and about a foot tall at the lower end.

Of course the land fill has not gone right up against the wall, but as soon as it rains guess where all the water is going to run to. I hope he built the foundations of his 'embankment' nice and deep.

[aging one]

I gotta go off track it just took me an hour to get home on a journey that is normally ten minutes. Why? The traffic light just before my house is in front of Don Muang Police station. The rain knocked it out. It had stopped raining. Well what do Thai coppers do, they are out there trying to be electricians and fix the light. Not a one noticed that no cars were moving in any direction. They just kept right on working as one lane of traffic became 2 or more in each direction. There was no way out.

Not one copper in the whole station thought to direct traffic, so damn it I got out with the kids in school uniform and started to get the traffic going. After about 10 minutes one looks up at me and my kids and sees traffic is flowing. Walks up to me and says "Tham Arai" Fuck you asshole what do you think me and two 8 year old girls are doing. "We are doing your fucking job you idiot", Which my daughters translated a little mellower than that. "kop koon kop" he said and started to walk away.

I had the girls shout for him to get his ass over where I was and do his damn job.

Finally got home, to thanks to the retarded cops in Don Muang.

[dirtydog]

Well the truth is coming out, it was actually the fishing park owner who dug the moat on the other mans land, it seems that he wanted to put a drainage ditch into my land and assumed that I would then carry on this drainage ditch into the next land, hmmmm, it's like, before this cnut came I didn't have any problem so why would I pay for drainage? I was quite happy with my half filled lake and every week we chucked some more infill in there to help build the land up, hell we would need to build 200 swimming pools to fill my lake up, he now keeps phoning up asking What are we gonna do. well we aint gonna do fok all, my galfriend doesn't bother answering his calls, this cnut now has damaged the walls on the far side of our land which will cost about 5k baht to rebuild, and now about 100,000bahts worth of his topsoil has been washed into our lake due to torrential rain over the last 3 days, the lake is 50 meters by 10 meters and 5 meters deep, we got a few more months of rain so I expect we should have about half a million bahts worth of his soil in our lake by the end of the rainy season, by the end of the rainy season I expect about 30 to 50k baht worths of damage to our far wall, seems a fair deal to me for his foking stupidity and selfishness, I mean would any normal person run major drainage to somebody elses land and not tell them? Then suddenly when it all foks up for them contact the owner and explain what they have done and ask " What are we gonna do? WE? FOK U SUNSHINE.....

[klongmaster]

you guys are scaring the shit out of me about this land ownership thing...

not much neighbourly love being shown in these stories...

maybe a condo was better after all!

[dirtydog]

It's not so bad, the village head honcho ie the big chief phoned this morning, our back wall backs onto his land his land is now flooded, he has made our neighbour fill in his drain leading to our land and has told the cnut to rebuild our walls, he aint a happy soldier so to speak, it seems the neighbours idea was to run a drain to our land and then we would run a drain to the head honchos land, the head honcho was a bit annoyed about this idea as nobody had told him and they hadn't asked us either untill they dug out the trench.

[dirtydog]

The rainy season is still on and the soil is washing into our lake, I really have no idea of how much this soil is worth, I mean we must have a couple of hundred thousands bahts worth of soil so far, the fishing park guy has stopped work on his building as he has run out of money, the head chief honcho is shoring up his lake as best he can but I think the road will fall into it, another meter high on his lake and the road will be completely destroyed, this should happen in the next month or 2 as now the big higher lake is all draining into his from ours, he don't even bother phoning us anymore to find out what we are gonna do as he knows that answer already, dirt is money as they say and we need loads of dirt.

The last week I have had a couple of staff chopping down what used to be the orchard and is now a jungle of 6 foot high grass, fok it's higher than my trees I think, aint dared to enter it due to poisonous animals.

The small plot of land I have stuck up for sale in the local supermarket, got to sell that pretty quick, may stick an advert in foodland aswell, hell it's a bargain for anybody plus I need a bit of dosh before the end of the year in the old bank account, so many plans for the land and all I have done is built the garden wall

[RandomChances]

The last week I have had a couple of staff chopping down what used to be the orchard and is now a jungle of 6 foot high grass, fok it's higher than my trees I think, aint dared to enter it due to poisonous animals.

You should get a cow.

[dirtydog]

You should get a cow.

The family would get too attached to it and there would be no T Bone steaks, just a pet cow.....

[Little Chuchok]

^^ he could borrow mine....

[harrymand]

How high is it allowable to build a fence?

[dirtydog]

I believe 2 meters without planning permission.

[Ban Saray]

I see where you get your temper from now.
I have been through all of this twice.
Thats why I want to do the next house myself.
At least I have a small block and a faily level, well drained block to start.
I notice the land lept in price in 2005, it's been spiralling in Bang Saray as well.
I really feel for you about the wall, and especially as you had to crimp and save to get it done.
We better have a beer together one day mate, and swap building stories.

[ChiangMai noon]

^
apologies.........

[NickA]

^Bit early (or late) to be on the beer isn't it, CMN?