Pattaya: Starving crowds told to go home as City Hall cancels handout

[ronaldo0]

So send people away starving and broke instead of using their brains and organising a line with space between people !! ????

[tribalfusion001]

3 hours ago, DrTuner said:

Maybe some tough love is needed. Learn how to queue properly or starve to death. Up to you.

Maybe you will be in the queue soon, hope you know how to queue properly 555

[SupermarineS6B]

5 hours ago, fforest1 said:

There are really no words for how shameful this is.....

 

The huge massive lines at immigration that went on for months did not seem to be much of a problem at all..

Big difference, immigration taking money, government giving out money...... 

[SupermarineS6B]

How many Generals, army and police and they couldn't set up a food chain to feed their own people ?   Tells you everything doesn't it......... Army sat all over the country doing sweet fanny adams and a PM an X General who should know how to sort out a small logistics problem....    Something about the inability to organize a drink in a brewery jumps to mind.....   Trucks, catering corps, food, lines, distance, one at a time........ what's hard about that ?  

[Leaver]

4 hours ago, DrTuner said:

And the solution to a military coup is another military coup. Thailand excels in this.

Well, we had the coup where "happiness" was brought to the people, now be need a coup that will bring food to the people.    

[Cake Monster]

3 hours ago, Badboldie said:

The organisers had not told the authorities about the event either. 

 

The problem stems from here! If they had been informed they would have been prepared!

Best thing would be to give a number out, through media, and then get the food deliver to them. 

City Hall did not want to have  their  own food distribution thing upstaged, which is due to start on 20th in colabaraion with Sawang Bariboon Foundation.

Face saving again

[Catkiwi]

5 hours ago, keith101 said:

If these idiots used social distancing instead of all gathering in a huge crowd they would have received their goodies but they just want to be in front of the others in case they miss out . The police could have been used to control them .

Have a heart and get of your high horse!! These are poor and hungry people whom probably only lived hand to mouth even when they did have an income. Of course they want to be in front so they don't miss out, wouldn't you? Yes the police or city hall people could have handled it better but lay off the poor buggers just trying to get a feed.

[Parsve]

That is Thailand in a nut-shell. Sending 100:s of people home starving because the lack of organisation. What brain can not fix, force have a solution for.

[DrTuner]

1 hour ago, tribalfusion001 said:

Maybe you will be in the queue soon, hope you know how to queue properly 555

I do. Anyone who's spent any time queueing in Thailand knows it's the survival of the fittest, must get pole position at any costs. Chinese take it to a whole other level though.

 

We also do proper social distancing automatically where I come from: 

Looks a bit crowded though. Must be in Helsinki.

 

Edited April 21, 2020 by DrTuner

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya: Starving crowds told to go home as City Hall cancels handout

Lot of votes lost right there.... are you watching Prayut?

You looked a bit thin on TV the other day, something troubling you?

[Almer]

6 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

House to house (or village to village) deliveries by tessaban staff - or the army - seems the smart way to go.

Far to easy so there must be a reason

[JackGats]

Some shopping carts with rations turned up at the condo resort where I stay. Nobody needs them here.

[Almer]

These poor hungry souls will not forget this even when there bellies are full

[Bangkok Barry]

6 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

House to house (or village to village) deliveries by tessaban staff - or the army - seems the smart way to go.

And there's the problem.

[Almer]

39 minutes ago, Catkiwi said:

Have a heart and get of your high horse!! These are poor and hungry people whom probably only lived hand to mouth even when they did have an income. Of course they want to be in front so they don't miss out, wouldn't you? Yes the police or city hall people could have handled it better but lay off the poor buggers just trying to get a feed.

These poor  souls are the ones that serve us  20 baht food after we  have been out at 2am and spend 1500 baht on a night out or 2500 if you been lucky, lets all give them a break and i would be pleased to offer help where i could to ease there plight

[JackGats]

Best way would be to distribute from a truck. As soon as crowding takes over, drive on and stop further down. Repeat.

[daveAustin]

6 hours ago, Leaver said:

The Thai Army needs to be mobilized, across the country, to deal with this issue.  If not, how long before rioting and looting starts?  

They must be good for something, right?

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, SupermarineS6B said:

How many Generals, army and police and they couldn't set up a food chain to feed their own people ?   Tells you everything doesn't it......... Army sat all over the country doing sweet fanny adams and a PM an X General who should know how to sort out a small logistics problem....    Something about the inability to organize a drink in a brewery jumps to mind.....   Trucks, catering corps, food, lines, distance, one at a time........ what's hard about that ?  

Everything... they haven't a clue.

[DrTuner]

25 minutes ago, JackGats said:

Best way would be to distribute from a truck. As soon as crowding takes over, drive on and stop further down. Repeat.

That would really fit into the "Walking Dead" scenario.

[daveAustin]

6 hours ago, Leaver said:

The solution is another military coup.  

Nope, a civilian one.

[OffshoreMig]

i was driving past.  The queue was long but moving quick. it was sad.  they must free up the restrictions soon. allow shops to open, keep bars closed if need be

 

[DrTuner]

2 minutes ago, OffshoreMig said:

allow shops to open, keep bars closed if need be

Without any tourists there still won't be enough jobs to do.

[samsensam]

6 hours ago, Liverpoolfan said:

40 years of mass tourism and they can't even put a few quid to one side for some rice??

Beggars belief. 

 

sounds like they have  the rice and want to give out the rice but unfortunately their ability to organise distribution has resulted in the initiative failing. back to the drawing board and try again. it can't be that difficult can it?!

[Youlike]

4 hours ago, skorp13 said:

why can't a few police actually police and keep everyone at the recommended distances? Disgraceful!

And then they make pictures of the police who don't wear their mouthmasks properly or forget the social distancing themselves and you guys will all ridicule them....?

[WineOh]

18 minutes ago, samsensam said:it can't be that difficult can it?!

Nothing surprises me anymore mate. 

[Andrew65]

1 hour ago, DrTuner said:

Without any tourists there still won't be enough jobs to do.

True, and even if every country went back to normal tomorrow, it would still probably take several months for things to even approach normality.

 

Hoping the Thais can get the food distribution organised, obviously a looming potential source of problems if it ain't.

[LoS itaint]

4 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

Probably given to a dozen monks

It will only end up at a temple if there is any left after the city hall staff have finished with it

[IAMHERE]

I thought the government had hundreds of storehouses full of rice bought thru the rice schemes.

[Peterphuket]

Even in the worldwar II the Germans were more humane than this sh*t people from the munipality of Pattya.

I'm really sorry to say, ashamed.

[Matzzon]

6 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

and they were losing business before due to the nutty insurance policy requirements, tedious 90 day reporting requirements, then the monthly income method monthly transfer method changes for UK and USA folks, etc.  You keep piling on straws they were bending the camel's back before this virus decision,

Eeeh??? I am pretty sure that you meant to quote somebody else, right? What has 90 day reporting and immigration to do with starwing Thais in a food line????