Vendors reopen near home of 'furious aunties'

[webfact]

Vendors reopen near home of 'furious aunties'

By The Nation

 

Photo courtesy of Facebook user Ajapim Aroonlucksana

 

VENDORS FROM an illegal market that was ordered closed on February 28 along with four other markets near the Seri Villa housing project in Bangkok’s Prawet district set up stalls on the roadside in the area yesterday, according to a post published by Ajapim Aroonlucksana on Facebook.

 

The roadside stalls were located only 50 metres from the house of two “furious aunties”, Rattanachat Seangyoktrakan, 61, and Ranee Saengyoktrakan, 57, who made headlines by attacking the pickup of a customer of the market.

 

Prawet district chief Thanasit Metphanmuang said the section of the road where the stalls were set up was private property and not under the city’s control. 

 

He also said the crowd seen in the photos included 20 food vendors from the markets, which had hosted 500 to 600 vendors, members of the public who exercised at a nearby park and then shopped for food, and outside vendors. 

 

He said he was negotiating with them and had instructed Thesakij city law enforcers not to use violence against them. 

 

“I don’t want to see them arrested and fined because I sympathise with people struggling and trying to make ends meet,” said Thanasit, who himself had to pay a Bt5,000 fine levied by the Central Administrative Court for failing to control the five markets after the Seangyoktrakans complained about congestion in the area. 

 

The five markets had operated for years without permits, but were ordered to close temporarily by Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang on February 21, pending a Central Administrative Court ruling on a complaint filed by residents against the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and its officials. 

 

The issue gained notoriety after Rattanachat and Ranee assaulted a woman’s pickup with an axe and shovel because it was parked blocking the entrance to their home last month. 

 

Complaints have been filed in regards to illegal parking, noise and other neighbourhood problems stemming from the markets’ activities. 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30340696

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-12

[Darcula]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Thanasit, who himself had to pay a Bt5,000 fine levied by the Central Administrative Court for failing to control the five markets after the Seangyoktrakans complained about congestion in the area

 

Fined by a court for not doing his job, but still holds down the job. There must be a shortage of inactive people in Thailand.

[YetAnother]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Prawet district chief Thanasit Metphanmuang said the section of the road where the stalls were set up was private property and not under the city’s control. 

photo shows them on the street; sounds like the wrong people are in the local govt jobs in that district

[rkidlad]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Prawet district chief Thanasit Metphanmuang said the section of the road where the stalls were set up was private property and not under the city’s control. 

Ah! I finally get it! Near where I work they put giant pot plants on the pavement outside their homes. You have to walk out on the road to be able to get to where you wanna go. I always thought these people were just selfish and inconsiderate, self-entitled p***ks, but really that pavement must be 'private property'. How negative I was about these people. Shame on me. 

[RichardColeman]

Please someone park in her drive again :)

Edited March 12, 2018 by RichardColeman

[whaleboneman]

1 hour ago, rkidlad said:

Ah! I finally get it! Near where I work they put giant pot plants on the pavement outside their homes. You have to walk out on the road to be able to get to where you wanna go. I always thought these people were just selfish and inconsiderate, self-entitled p***ks, but really that pavement must be 'private property'. How negative I was about these people. Shame on me. 

Can you tell me where this is as I'm looking for some pot?

[rkidlad]

Just now, whaleboneman said:

Can you tell me where this is as I'm looking for some pot?

Sorry, meant ‘potted’. I could live with pot plants on the pavement. 

[Jonmarleesco]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

“I don’t want to see them arrested and fined because I sympathise with people struggling and trying to make ends meet,”

I feel for them ...

 

A pity he doesn't have the same sympathy for the people seriously inconvenienced by these 'struggling ends-meeters'.

[Srikcir]

2 hours ago, rkidlad said:

but really that pavement must be 'private property'.

I'm not sure about that particular roadway but it is true in Thailand - road ROW can be privately-owned. I've seen in Bangkok roads with high rises, businesses, stores, etc. that front on private roads that connect with public thoroughfares. Each property owner must negotiate with the road owner for access.

But in the subject road the aunties should check with the Land Department to confirm private road ownership and validate the trueness of the deed. As their own homes front the same street, disclosure of private ROW should have been part of their own land deed. How else can they access their property? 

[PAIBKK]

Nothing ever changes. T.I.T.

[Bangkok Barry]

This is exactly why, all over Thailand and in any area you care to name, people ignore the law. Because they know they will get away with it, with - if they are really, really unlucky - maybe an interruption for a few days to whatever it is they are doing. It's a lawless country, which is actually what attracts many foreigners who don't like the PC culture or following the law themselves in their own country.

[trainman34014]

Of course; the right way to deal with it is tell these people not to be there again tomorrow or there will be a Bulldozer waiting for them.  However; in softly, softly Thailand where Public Officials are people with no power other than to keep their hands firmly wedged in the till and expect everyone to bow to them when they work in the Office (when they can be bothered to be there ), they fail to understand it is their duty to actually enforce local bylaws and keep proper order on the streets of their Manor.   Basically clueless !

[Baerboxer]

6 hours ago, Darcula said:

 

Fined by a court for not doing his job, but still holds down the job. There must be a shortage of inactive people in Thailand.

 

But still he's not actually doing his job and admits freely to that!

 

Wonder where all the rent money from vendors went if the markets weren't legal?

[Somchai Logic]

3 hours ago, PAIBKK said:

Nothing ever changes. T.I.T.

And NEVER will 

[MaxLee]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

Vendors reopen near home of 'furious aunties'

Good, at least more cars to smash,..... the less rude drivers and sh**** parkers, the better for Thailand...... Those women should open a private scrap metal business for ANTI-s****t drivers and illegal parkers behind their house with the notification sign "My house MY rules"......... 

Edited March 12, 2018 by MaxLee

[chama]

8 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

I feel for them ...

 

A pity he doesn't have the same sympathy for the people seriously inconvenienced by these 'struggling ends-meeters'.

And it is a pity that he is allowing the laws to be manipulated to allow the illegal markets to continue after the owners of these homes have spent a large sum of money to build expecting the existing laws, at the time, dictating that the markets that were allowed there were more of the commercial use (that would generate much lighter traffic) to remain in place. Wonder how fat his envelope was?