Pattaya drafts inmates to scrape out sewers

PATTAYA:--Prison inmates were drafted to help scrape out clogged sewers along Third Road.

 

The Sanitation Department coordinated with the Pattaya Remand Prison to put well-behaved convicts to work, climbing down into sewers to scrape out the garbage, muck and other waste impeding the flow of wastewater and storm runoff.

 

Vacuum trucks also were used in front of Mumaroi Restaurant, but in many cases manual labor was needed and inmates were used instead of paid civil servants to do the dirty work.

 

 

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Wouldn't want to get a bad cut down there

A great idea ,hopefully they can tend to our beaches ...Beaches are like ''ski hills '',they need groomed too...Here on soi 1 we have a few beach vendors who actually ''rake groom '' the sand in and around their chairs...it makes all the difference...its more about maintainance..

11 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

The Sanitation Department coordinated with the Pattaya Remand Prison to put well-behaved convicts to work, climbing down into sewers to scrape out the garbage, muck and other waste impeding the flow of wastewater and storm runoff.

 

I wonder what they do to the ill-behaved ones?

 

Doesn't seem like much incentive to be on the "Good" list...

 

Maybe they should have the well behaved ones cleaning the beach, and the others doing the sewer thing.

 

You mean the sewers underground or above ground??...

Saw a lot of them the other day,the wife told me they were prisoners nearing their time of release.

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30 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Vacuum trucks also were used in front of Mumaroi Restaurant, but in many cases manual labor was needed and inmates were used instead of paid civil servants to do the dirty work.

Two thoughts come to mind.

As stated above, "in front of Mumaroi Restaurant". Maybe the convicts got a superior meal down in the sewer (as compared to Thai jail food).

Again, in front of a restaurant. Maybe the clog was cooking grease.

 

I would think they felt right at home.

If they'd order the masses on inactive posts to do the job it would be finished before lunch time.

3 hours ago, impulse said:

Doesn't seem like much incentive to be on the "Good" list...

 

They are all volunteers and receive a reduction of their sentences for doing this. Believe it's a day off for each day worked.

 

 

They were using them in 1990 on Si Lom during my first time here.

The Pattaya City authorities have never come to grips with the "self cleansing" installation, in which drains are set with a fall which ensures a minimum velocity of 3 ft per second. Just stick the pipes underground and all will be OK ????

2 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

The Pattaya City authorities have never come to grips with the "self cleansing" installation, in which drains are set with a fall which ensures a minimum velocity of 3 ft per second. Just stick the pipes underground and all will be OK ????

They would need to empty into a reservoir 20-30 feet below sea level.

From the famous words of James Cagney - "You dirty rats"!

Remember seeing this years ago in Bangkok. Saw a bunch of guys climbing down the grates and clearing them out with wicker baskets.

Was just watching them until someone told me "don't look at them" and said they were prisoners from jail.

Really surprised me as I didn't see any armed guards guarding them.

"Inactive posts" come to mind.

BKK been doing this for a long time. Felt so sorry for these guys, a rather large group with a few guards a few months back on Sukhumvit. They worked down in the man holes pulling ropes through the system and emptying caverns and manholes with small buckets. No protection in flip-flops, some with rubber boots. Bizzare  sight in the middle of touristy expensive area. I went to next 7/11 and got some XL bottle of Coke and few boxes of cigarettes for them. MS>

6 hours ago, moonseeker said:

few boxes of cigarettes for them

And then there was an almighty explosion in the sewer!

Perhaps if well paid jobs were created from the start then the inmates wouldn't be inmates. They would be proud members of society doing a difficult job at a high salary. Doing it this way is poor reasoning and wastes money and resources.