Oh Buddha!: Thais using Holy Water on the roads to stop the carnage

[rooster59]

Oh Buddha!: Thais using Holy Water on the roads to stop the carnage

 

Image: Thai News Agency MCOT

 

Thais have started using holy water on the roads to stop so many people dying. 

 

Locals in Ang Thong in central Thailand are convinced that mysterious spirits are at work as people keep dying in pairs at the Phai Thong intersection on Route 306.

 

So they got the monks at the local temple to bless some water and sprayed it on the road. 

 

A highway engineer said there were other more earthly reasons for the frequent accidents and said that the installation of an "optical speed bar" would be the answer. 

 

Thai News Agency MCOT reported that figures from the Thai RSC site indicated that 11,228 had died on the Thai roads from January to Sept 5th. 

 

A total of 630,894 had been injured so far this year. 

 

Top five in the provincial charts for road death were Bangkok (637), Korat (399), Chonburi (389), Chiang Mai (352) and Udon (299). 

 

Thaivisa notes that these are likely to be figures from death at the scene of accidents. It is widely accepted that the annual death toll in Thailand is around 25,000 people per year.

 

Source: Thai News Agency MCOT

 

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[brokenbone]

mix the water with some slippery soap for extra measure, or perhaps KY can do wonders

[tomazbodner]

Using brains instead would probably yield better results...

[RotMahKid]

41 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Using brains

Most don't have, you forgot?

[taichiplanet]

"Holy Holyman Batman, that should stop the KAPOWS and SPLATTS!"

"Yes indeed Robin, it is a wonder no one thought of it before"

[bluesofa]

I was assuming the idea was to cause the engines to cut out, rendering the vehicles inoperable, thus reducing the accident rate.

[ChipButty]

How about getting a license and learn to drive, Oh forget it

[OneMoreFarang]

Obviously Christians have much better ideas - or maybe not?

[essox essox]

1 hour ago, tomazbodner said:

Using brains instead would probably yield better results...

but have they got any.......?????!!!!

[trainman34014]

2 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Using brains instead would probably yield better results...

They need time to grow brains first..... a lot of time !

[unamazedloso]

"Locals in Ang Thong in central Thailand are convinced that mysterious spirits are at work"???? Sure, alcohol plays a major part, but the leading cause has to be plain old dumbness. 

Take responsibility people, i know its an almost impossible feat for a Thai.

[Tayaout]

Why not simply use some policeman and a speed radar? 

[bluesofa]

1 minute ago, Tayaout said:

Why not simply use some policeman and a speed radar? 

Because you're dealing with the gullible, not the rational.

[faraday]

This is just so irresponsible!

 

Remember that poor lady who slipped , on a cucumber ????& it 'got stuck' inside her?

 

Shame on them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Oxx]

Whoever wrote the title (which is not present in the MCOT version linked to) is undoubtedly culturally insensitive.  I doubt the author would have written "Oh, Mohammed", but seems happy to treat the name of the Lord Buddha disrespectfully.

[ThaiBunny]

Just now, Oxx said:

Whoever wrote the title (which is not present in the MCOT version linked to) is undoubtedly culturally insensitive.  I doubt the author would have written "Oh, Mohammed", but seems happy to treat the name of the Lord Buddha disrespectfully.

That's because the OP has confused Buddha with God, a common belief, even by many Buddhists; no-one at all confuses Mohammed with God

[30la]

I thought until today that Italians are extremely superstitious, today I have to admit that Thai are even more so!

[RichardColeman]

19 hours ago, rooster59 said:

A total of 630,894 had been injured so far this year. 

That's about 1% of the population hurt on the roads ? I knew it was bad but................

[JMSIII]

3 hours ago, Tayaout said:

Why not simply use some policeman and a speed radar? 

Exactly!  Have an enforced Vehicle Code with actual fines that will mean something...

[hotchilli]

19 hours ago, rooster59 said:

 

So they got the monks at the local temple to bless some water and sprayed it on the road.

There really is  no hope.... locals believing spirits are to blame instead of stupidity !

[apophyss]

EVERY weeks Thailand make some news looks like a first april,
but it's no a joke !

 

 

When they will understand they looks so stupid to all the world ?

[ThaiBunny]

2 minutes ago, apophyss said:

When they will understand they looks so stupid to all the world ?

Every country does things that some assert "will make the country look foolish". It rarely does, especially in an age of a 24-hour news cycle, but most people simply don't care about faraway cities in their own country, let alone faraway countries

[IvorBiggun2]

Now the locals know the road has been blessed it will have the opposite effect in that they think they're protected by Buddha. 

[khunPer]

Finally a method that might work...????

[Fex Bluse]

22 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thais using Holy Water on the roads to stop the carnage

Thainess example 107 ????

[Jimbo2014]

[metisdead]

Some offensive troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[khaowong1]

10 hours ago, Oxx said:

Whoever wrote the title (which is not present in the MCOT version linked to) is undoubtedly culturally insensitive.  I doubt the author would have written "Oh, Mohammed", but seems happy to treat the name of the Lord Buddha disrespectfully.

I'm pretty sure the Buddha doesn't really give a <deleted>.  

[Inn Between]

Now I know where to sell my magic snake oil.  

 

But in all seriousness, IvorBiggun2 made a comment in post #23 that could be true and cause even more problems. Would wearing an amulet while riding on a "blessed" road give many Thais the feeling of absolute invincibility? 

[AhFarangJa]

Breaking News.............

Police and several rescue vehicles were called to the Phai Tong intersection of route 306 in Ang Thong province this morning as twenty motorbikes and 10 cars lost control and crashed on an unexpectedly wet and slippery road which appeared despite the lack of rain in the area......