Danger Thailand: Now lunchtime diners get dumped in the sea as restaurant floor collapses

 

 

In a further dent to Thailand's image as a safe tourist destination comes news from Sattahip today of the collapse of a seaside restaurant floor.

 

Some 70 diners - men and women visiting Bang Saray from a Buriram sugar factory - were dumped in the sea. 

 

Fortunately the tide was out as a huge hole appeared in the floor of the restaurant.

 

The hole measured 6.4m wide by 11.1m long.

 

Everybody was brought to the safety of the shore but 29 were reported injured and taken to hospital. 

 

Police, local officials and rescue teams were quickly on the scene to help the Thai tourists.

 

The collapsed section is part of a mid-section of a structure that stretches 200 meters out to sea. 

 

Police have temporarily shut down the restaurant as an investigation begins. 

 

Source: https://www.dailynews.co.th/regional/654819

 

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Jesus wept, you couldn't make this up hahaha....!!!!!

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4 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

In a further dent to Thailand's image as a safe tourist destination

That myth finished a long time ago, unfortunately.

11 minutes ago, Anythingleft? said:

Jesus wept, you couldn't make this up hahaha....!!!!!

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Dude, ain't funny, I eat there allot

Dude, ain't funny, I eat there allot

Ate, past tense.....

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70 diners fell through that hole? I wonder why they were all standing so close together? Waiting to be seated?
The live seafood tanks appear to have survived, so obviously no lobsters were injured.


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But, but,  it's always been ok every day before this happened.

Trying to compete with the 'Dine in the Sky" concept in Bangkok?

52 minutes ago, JAZZDOG said:

Dude, ain't funny, I eat there allot

Ok,  I am sorry for you and I really hope they will be able to repair your favorite restaurant. Next time, though. Can you tell the´m that it´s wise to check the structure once in a while when it regards somthing placed in moving water. I guess they just missed that little piece of very valuable information.

45 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Ok,  I am sorry for you and I really hope they will be able to repair your favorite restaurant. Next time, though. Can you tell the´m that it´s wise to check the structure once in a while when it regards somthing placed in moving water. I guess they just missed that little piece of very valuable information.

maintin, nope meanten, nope mentan, nope mantean, nope, sorry, can't spell it.

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The hole measured 6.4m wide by 11.1m long.

 

Was there a shrimp buffet by any chance? It seems there was a scrum in a very small space.

I'm sorry we're joking about this, as some people we're hurt ...... but it does look like the final scene from a Roadrunner cartoon after Wiley Coyote's plans went wrong ... again.

2 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

70 diners fell through that hole? I wonder why they were all standing so close together? Waiting to be seated?
The live seafood tanks appear to have survived, so obviously no lobsters were injured.


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chinese

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Fortunately the tide was out as a huge hole appeared in the floor of the restaurant.

Not lucky, I can swim, I'd rather fall in the sea than break my legs hitting the sand.

13 minutes ago, JAZZDOG said:

chinese

Says 70 Thai people on a tour from the Buriram Sugar Company.

29 injured, cuts, bruises and broken bones.

I'm sure a very thorough police investigation into the collapse will conclude:

 

A. too many heavy people eating in one place.

B. the restaurant owner forget to wear his amulets today.

C. a runaway speed boat from Phuket hit the support beams causing the collapse.

 

Take your pick!

 

Surely this restaurant is illegal because you can't build on beach that's government land 

 

 I am more worried about the fish and lobsters , hope they are doing ok and managed to escape. 

 

3 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Surely this restaurant is illegal because you can't build on beach that's government land 

 

There are businesses and nice houses that go on for kilometers around that bay. You can see where they start and stop near the Navy base from Jomtien

9 hours ago, JAZZDOG said:

Dude, ain't funny, I eat there allot

You and the termites both it seems.

 

6 hours ago, JAZZDOG said:

chinese

Which, the restaurant or the tourists?

26 minutes ago, jerry921 said:

You and the termites both it seems.

 

Which, the restaurant or the tourists?

Thinking comedy, don't quit your day job.

Some troll posts and the replies have been removed.

pattaya's famous ''boardwalk'', ready to compete with Miami..pics taken today ...

Like one of those weird Japanese candid camera shows that delights in scaring people!

Can't see any substantial supporting structure, just long lengths of thin wood. Its obvious it wasn't built to support large numbers of people on it. Maybe it was OK when they first opened with fewer customers, but in true Thai style, just cram in more people and forget about everything except profit.

Interested to see what the reaction is to this - if it leads to inspections on other structures built over the sea, which is technically illegal anyway, half of Walking Street could be brought into question.


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7 minutes ago, jaiyen said:

Can't see any substantial supporting structure, just long lengths of thin wood. Its obvious it wasn't built to support large numbers of people on it. Maybe it was OK when they first opened with fewer customers, but in true Thai style, just cram in more people and forget about everything except profit.

as I walk it each day ,I see the real cause is the police riding thier scooters over it every morning to p/u their envelopes and the income sheet from yesterdays beach vendors,then the morning newspaper man on his scooter ,then all the beach bullie tour group gang on scooters

Interested to see what the reaction is to this - if it leads to inspections on other structures built over the sea, which is technically illegal anyway, half of Walking Street could be brought into question.


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Thought the Walking Street inspections were done and dusted previously, no? They dismantled some buildings but only a few if I remember....

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15 hours ago, JAZZDOG said:

Dude, ain't funny, I eat there allot

You mean ate there alot, as in past tense?

15 hours ago, Anythingleft? said:

Jesus wept, you couldn't make this up hahaha....!!!!!

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It's stuff like this that makes Jesus not return.