Mr Meeseeks

It is common knowledge that the concrete is sub-spec on a great many major construction projects in SEA. I had it explained to me in detail by my engineer friends (Thai and farang) who have been involved in major construction projects in Thailand since the 1970's.

A few thousand Baht to the right person.

Not retired, 33 years in Thailand and still far too young for that. Try again.

You watch and review them at high speed, or just review the alerts. Really clever these newfangled CCTV security systems. It's not rocket science.

It takes 5 minutes to check and review CCTV footage from multiple cameras, once or twice per day, if they can be bothered. Really easy and straightforward and normal procedure in many places. Remember, as a hotel, they have a duty of care to ensure the security of their guests staying at the premises.

For example, a responsible person that had received an alert of unexpected movement in an area covered by a CCTV camera. Or even heaven forbid, a routine check of the CCTV on a periodic basis by the responsible person i.e. security, reception etc. Again, proactive, not reactive. 🥱

To clarify. The hotel receptionist checked the cctv after the Swede had reported the theft.

Indeed. Prevention is better than the cure.

They should be proactive not reactive.

Amusingly on arrival at BKK on QR they still show a TM-6 video with the old redundant paper form. They have obviously been given the video by the Thais and told to show it, even though it is years out of date. 😄

Quite a feat to check thousands of concrete structures in such a short space of time. Remarkable.

One of the videos shows him being launched from the cab as it collapsed.

And so it begins...

Yeh, likely inspected by the security guy from the hut at the entrance to the building.

Everything is ok until it isn't. Thailand in a nutshell.

If you read the article link posted earlier in this thread, the Chinese company explains that they were using new technologies to construct faster and more efficiently. It may have been the case that this contributed to the incident, whereas a building constructed to tried and trusted methods would not have collapsed. I don't have faith in any of the investigation processes here so I won't hold my breath,

Some major hotels in Bangkok you cannot any longer close doors etc. indicating the damage is far from just cosmetic, i.e. the building has actually shifted. Also, structural engineers in Thailand? How many are actually competent to assess earthquake/tremor damage, and how many will sign off for a 'fee', or will sign off because they are scared of the boss? A lot more to come from this I should think and a lot more problems ahead.

Recently, several Chinese persons and nominee companies have been discovered recycling hazardous waste illegally.

The whole country is.

Not one of them could lie straight in bed. All dishonest, money-worshipping, narcissistic sociopaths.

Not in my recent experience. Not to mention the planning and layout of UK roads is light years ahead of Thailand, also the UK has had proper roads for longer, and has older buildings and city layouts to contend with as well.

Thais profiting from a natural disaster that caused dozens of deaths. A new low for them but colour me unsurprised.

Only in terms of what different people may find offensive. The owners of this shop are probably not educated enough to know that many people will take offence at some of the items they sell. Maybe they don't care. Their country their rules. The Thais have other ideas of what would be unacceptable and offensive on a t-shirt or other clothing, for example images of a certain person, or the Thai flag on socks or underwear (as we have seen outrage about many times before). What was that about having to be culturally sensitive when visiting Thailand again?