Netizens cry foul as Saraburi "tourist" cows eat up 20 million baht

[masuk]

2 hours ago, missoura said:

Live cows would have been much cheaper.

Well, at least, they're keeping to the left.  Just one overtaking...

[gerrytraveller]

170,000  bht per 1.2m tall cow is just a little excessive. In this case  I do speak from experience. I have just built a 3.5m Pink Kangaroo on Koh Kood.. crazy maybe but thats not the point. Point is it cost me 30.000bht..made out of cement..not 140.000bht..!!!

[ratcatcher]

3 hours ago, PatOngo said:

"Tourist Cows"..........exactly what tourists come to Thailand to see, I'll be sending all my friends to Saraburi to witness this spectacle. Amazing!

Maybe they are trading on Chokchai's success next door.

Neighboring Nakhon Ratchasima province  is home to Chokchai Farm and the biggest herd of dairy cattle in Thailand. Send your friends for sure.

 

http://www.thai-blogs.com/2009/02/03/farm-chockchai/

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chokchai+dairy+farm&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHhdeZvMzXAhUFqo8KHW_SCbQQ_AUICigB&biw=1340&bih=618#imgrc=EWvuSNp520v_EM:

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Life-Size-Black-White-Holstein-Cow-Poly-Resin-Fiberglass-Sculpture-Statue-/271886597034

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

........The one in our picture cost 170,000 baht to put in place.........

 

Plus the purchase cost of 170.000 so a total of 340,000.......

[wvavin]

Still needs an answer? They are pretending to be stupid or what? This money has been long gone into theirs or family accounts of the government officials in Saraburi province. Isn't this so difficult for them to understand?

[Xonax]

Cows and brown envelopes are expensive these days!

I hope that the responsible persons will be punished properly.

Edited November 20, 2017 by Xonax

[BBJ]

So whose family member got the contract to make these cows?  I wonder!

Edited November 20, 2017 by BBJ

[noahvail]

You can buy a full sized fiberglass cow in the US for ฿30,000. Hard to believe a small statue like that is 4x the price of something made in the US. https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F272028310895

[duanebigsby]

2 hours ago, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:

The large resin/fiberglass Cows seen around varrious cities

can be had for $1000-1500,  unpainted. USA price.

Imagine local manufacturer/China  could do it for much less.

 

 

Sounds about right...35 k baht for the cow, 5k baht to paint, 100k baht for the kickback.

[duanebigsby]

Nothing screams "Thailand" than a cow dressed in a cowboy outfit.

Why didn't they pick some Thai motif?

 

 

[robertthesculptor]

Actually this around the world is fairly common. And in spiterms of the whining it can draw visitors, which I think is the point and is cheaper than building one more showy Wat.some so called Net citizens are just spoiled or perhaps paid to dis an idea

[klauskunkel]

Yes, but can they say "Mooo!"?

[SymS]

There's a (fiberglass?) elephant factory where I live, and they sell each for 200,000 Baht. Dimensions are around 1.5m long x 1 meter high. So the price seems OK.

Edited November 20, 2017 by SymS
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[cooked]

3 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

That seems rather expensive.

 

Are they covered in gold leaf?

We were making life size ones in Switzerland for about 35 000 Baht.

[metisdead]

A troll post has been removed. 

[marquis22]

I was thinking of starting a business in Thailand making flags as I see millions of them, but now I might change and make cow mascots. 

[Get Real]

4 hours ago, PatOngo said:

"Tourist Cows"..........exactly what tourists come to Thailand to see, I'll be sending all my friends to Saraburi to witness this spectacle. Amazing!

Chinese tourists! They usually does everything nobody else would even dream of doing. 

[tifino]

8 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Chinese tourists! They usually does everything nobody else would even dream of doing. 

 

... like slicing them up, and eating it on a bed of plastic rice

[globalspark]

Sounds like the dead buffalo story.if you go to the university of korat you will know all these topics.amazing just when you read all the books the the cow story appears.

[thailand49]

Take a camera and photograph the parking lot of the board there is got to be lots of new expensive vehicles. Follow them home sure to see lot of home improvements and land buying?

[seahorse]

What kind of cock and bull story is this? As usual, Thaivisa members are milking it for all it's worth. 

 

I'm sure the cowncil's accowntants haven't looked very closely at these figures, otherwise these mascots wouldn't have been mooved into position. Or cud they have made a mi-steak?

[rebo]

4 plastic cows for the price of one middle class family house in the same area ...

[jobwolf]

Fantastic for 3 cows I can buy a Yaris which takes me at least 300.000 km from this di

saster cows.

[chickenslegs]

9 minutes ago, seahorse said:

What kind of cock and bull story is this? As usual, Thaivisa members are milking it for all it's worth. 

 

I'm sure the cowncil's accowntants haven't looked very closely at these figures, otherwise these mascots wouldn't have been mooved into position. Or cud they have made a mi-steak?

 

Very amoosing.

[tifino]

udderly outragious 

[Krataiboy]

A bum steer if ever I saw one.

[tifino]

 an admiral hornblower of a topic

[Chris Lawrence]

Someone had the cows in the top paddock. The grazing was better with a higher payoff in the market place. 

[Muhendis]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

They wanted to know why the mascots were so expensive and what was the point of them.

They are above board with ministerial regulations being followed to the letter. So if that's the case where are the answers to the above questions.

Who is the dickweed that came up with this idea?

[tifino]

Maybe the Topics are greener on the other side of the fence?