https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1qzDhVPjp8
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Awesome. :smileylaughing:
I must add these from Nakon Sawan late last year. New walk over bridge cables tied to the hand rail. :)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...CN0742%7E0.JPG
Thats just shocking !
Nakon Sawan again. Somchai the City Electrician has spliced into the over head power line and left the cables at just the right height for little Somchai to play with. Strung across the footpath. :)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...CN0839%7E0.JPG
This is the kicker. Somchai has wrapped his splice in Tape but the bolt is still showing. Touch that little baby and its off to see your Maker. :)
I love Thailand, this wild shit never happens in Perth. :smileylaughing:
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...CN0840%7E0.JPG
Wonder how long before the government has that video taken down as it makes things look bad.
I suppose they could blame the wiring on the Red shirts, or the construction on the Burmese.
OP vid is just fine. Quite logical. Everyone knows the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. :)
Looks perfectly OK for Thailand, why some people want to make ploblum? We have had the builders in for 2.5 months on a three week job. Some of the highlights were painting gloss first, then covering with the undercoat. Trying to use a few bathroom tiles to finish off 60 metres of work outside that were totally different in color pattern and size. One worker admitting he was drunk and could not work if not, that explained some to the work! Last sunday our of 4 workers one cleared off to watch muay thai on TV, another was dead drunk and coould not stand up, the demented one just brushing up all day leaving one half heatedly painting who could not be arsed to finish even that. Oh and they just about ruined an expensive boothavorn kitchen, no handles on straight and screws sticking out an inch inside cabinets.
luckily they wont touch electrics - white mans magic!
Anyone know what the voltage is on those 3 phase lines you have to duck on the far side? Likely a 7.5 kilovolt line? Tall people may feel some discomfort or frying sensations using that overpass.
Looking at the insulator size,maybe 11000 volts ??!!!!:rolleyes:
Thainess.
I can't recall Singapore or Hong Kong ever demonstrating such mind boggling incompetence as that aberration even 50 years ago.
Thai really are another fucking species.
Made me laugh:rofl:
Poor Thai folk.
Everyone's always picking on them.
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A dangerous metal bolt? Or safe plastic coated terminal block?
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2015/04/610.jpg
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For sure its a terminal block. What do you reckon that metal thingo is that's half exposed ?
I'm not to sure but would not put it past being live huh.
I can't see anything that looks like exposed metal, Terry. If you mean one of the two protruding parts on the joint, the one on the right to me looks like the tape is discoloured due to stretching, but maybe the tape is broken. Hard to be sure.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2015/04/611.jpg
The bolt on the right is half exposed, I checked that little baby right out.
Ya reckon its live. ? Would you touch it. ? :)
No, I wouldn't touch it.
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Of course you would not touch it.
You are a qualified Electrical worker so you know there is every chance it could be live given Somchai's work.
I reckon it is live. I say that simply because Somchai would not waste Electrical tape on it if it was not live.
What is astounding is that the work on the pedestrian bridge must have been signed off by the engineer in charge before completion.
Unless of course the bridge was already there and the electric people just drilled through the steps and put the wires through.
Either way, just another expensive mistake that comes from unqualified lazy morons entrusted with work that should be left to professionals.
But of course, when half the budget has disappeared into officials pockets, there is not enough money left to employ professionals and bug chewing bumpkins who will work for a bowl of rice and a slug of homebrew a day have to be given the work.
What could possibly go wrong eh Terry?
On the plus side, at least they sleeved the cables before passing them through the bridge.
So they can't be completely stupid..........Can they?
It's a cunning plan to attract tourists to the area.
What makes you think the government knows enough to realise it isn't flatteringQuote:
Originally Posted by thailazer
Risking sounding too much like your pal thegent, I'd like to suggest you're thinking too much like a Farang and not as a Thai views the world, terry. :)
You see, a Thai looks at that cable and says to himself "don't touch" and goes merrily on his way. If for some unlucky reason said Thai did get electrocuted by that cable it was his Karma and time to go.
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That's exactly how it is Huh.
That's why they do this stuff that we consider retarded.
They are programed from birth to expect things to be not quite normal and at the end of the day everyone is responsible for their own actions.
I don't mind it actually. Our Nanny state shit me.
So over the top its pathetic.
Why did Somchai put this sign at this height.?
Because he can. :) Nakon Sawan again.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...CN0758%7E0.JPG
Somchai's solution to supporting wires. :)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2/DSCN0884.JPG
I mean ya gota love this shit huh. :spam2:
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...CN0903%7E0.JPG
Now I'm no Brain Surgeon but I think I could figure out that if I left this support just sitting on the footpath like this it would be 33 seconds before drunk Somchai walked into it and it came down in a steaming pile of shit.
This is really great stuff innit. :) Gota laugh.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...2/RSCN0905.JPG
I shot this picture in Pitsanoluk. Reckon they are alive ? :)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...CN0671%7E0.JPG
Err, Terry, back in the real world we call that idiocy. However, the inference you have constructed, that the Thai accept personal responsibility for their own actions, leads me to conclude that you have learned absolutely nothing about the Thai in all your years visiting this place.
In descending order of culpability it is:
1) Someone else's fault (always a farang if there was one within visible distance of the event).
2) If it wasn't someone else's fault then it was anyone else's fault once we can find him and pay the police.
3) Nobody's fault - death just happens, spontaneously and without reason particularly if you are not wearing the right amulet, have a tattoo or been down the temple recently (and there are no witnesses).
4) My fault but only when fingers are pointing at me, there are photographs, I end up in court and have no money to pay the police.
5) My fault but only if there is no question of any compensation or legal consequence, I do not lose face, no one shouts bad things but everyone laughs with me and we celebrate together that moment when we all know we are not just total fucking cretins but Thai cretins which are the bestest cretins in the the entire world and if you no like, you go home na.
In truth, we all know the Thai would rather disembowel themselves and eat their own livers before admitting fault to anyone.
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Oh I don't know Thegent,
My handbag hates liver. :loser:
This achievement also deserves a honourable mention on this thread....
https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies1/You_Rock_Emoticon.gif
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A restaurant we used to frequent put in a new set of salas over their ponds and as it got dark, the cute waitress climbed up on a chair to turn on the lights. All the switches were just hanging off the wires so I told the owner whom I was friendly with that it was unsafe for the girl. A week later we got there and he proudly takes me out to show how he wrapped the loose wires in spiral wrap and tape. This is the "after improvement" photo:
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u.../Switch_On.jpg
Who says Thais are not safety conscious - good for him!