Netizens criticize "Thai officials' stupidity" after they did THIS to a fire hydrant

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai netizens had a field day slamming what they saw as the idiotic way their authorities carry out work.

 

Leading the way was a post from a group that translates as "Hey! These are Thailand's Footpaths" on Facebook that showed a fire hydrant sticking its head out on a recently concreted road. 

 

The post referred to the "normal stupidity" that is "what you can expect in Thailand".

 

"They'll be along to sort it out later according to Thai style", the post continued along with some 5555 (hahahahas).

 

They appeared to be referring to the Thai habit of poor coordination between departments when it comes to public works. 

 

Netizens joined in with the shaming asking what would happen in the event of a fire. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

However a subsequent report by Daily News who went to the scene - Soi Decha Udom 14 in Nakhon Ratchasima - showed that three hydrants had now been removed and there was no problem related to the needs of fire services. 

 

The holes left had been filled in with what looked like asphalt and they expected cement to be poured in after 4.9 million baht contract work was finally completed. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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16 minutes ago, webfact said:

The post referred to the "normal stupidity" that is "what you can expect in Thailand".

and the people practicing  such stupidity have no clue that something might be amiss; that is the amazing thailand

20 minutes ago, webfact said:

However a subsequent report by Daily News who went to the scene - Soi Decha Udom 14 in Nakhon Ratchasima - showed that three hydrants had now been removed and there was no problem related to the needs of fire services. 

 

So it's gone from unusable hydrants to no hydrants!

 

Not much different to them that make a road that has an obstacle in the middle they never moved.

15 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

So it's gone from unusable hydrants to no hydrants!

 

No, it says clearly in the link kindly provided that the new hydrants had already been installed and this was just a case of not having removed the old ones yet (which has since been done).
 

Makes sense to install the new ones before removing the old ones if you ask me. 

1 minute ago, Natai Beach said:

Makes sense to install the new ones before removing the old ones if you ask me. 

 

Right now they are widening the east side ring-road in Udon Thani which serves as part of Highway 2 from Bangkok to Nong Khai on the Lao border. They have removed the existing street lighting ahead of maybe two months of road-widening. Have they got that "wrong" as well?

A long time ago in the UK when I was allowed to design road improvements, we would send letters to the involved gas, telephone, water, sewage and electricity departments etc asking 1: where are your conduits, pipes, etc? and 2: if, according to these plans, they need to be moved, please do so before the date of commencement. There was always a department or two that didn't answer. Imagine how much worse it must be here.

12 minutes ago, cooked said:

A long time ago in the UK when I was allowed to design road improvements, we would send letters to the involved gas, telephone, water, sewage and electricity departments etc asking 1: where are your conduits, pipes, etc? and 2: if, according to these plans, they need to be moved, please do so before the date of commencement. There was always a department or two that didn't answer. Imagine how much worse it must be here.

 

You got that right. I supervised a seismic exploration campaign in Bangkok's western suburbs so we needed to identify all subterranean infrastructure especially water mains and drainage. It took forever to get maps from the MWA and when they were eventually delivered, they were the original hand drafted, UV light-developed, blurred blue-prints. The most recent ones were maybe ten years old but all of them lacked accurate scaling or measurements and hadn't been updated with what was on the surface... like the Highway 9 ring road!! Basically as much use a tits on a boar pig. We got the nod to go ahead but they asked us to let them know if we broke anything.

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Not much different to them that make a road that has an obstacle in the middle they never moved.

what could possibly go wrong?????

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The holes left had been filled in with what looked like asphalt and they expected cement to be poured in after 4.9 million baht contract work was finally completed. 

Thais have a real affiliation with concrete and cement

As Chairman of a project called "Memorial to the Women of World War 2", we received authority from Westminister Council to install the Memorial in Whitehall.  To do so, I also had to have the authority of the "owner" of Whitehall.  No one, but no one would lay claim to this Central London thorough fare and in the end had to ask the Interior Minister to adopt the road.  Even then, when we started excavating the site there was an ENORMOUS gas mains pipe right where we wanted to place it!  So it ain't only Thailand that has highway issues!

A few years ago they installed cats eyes on a section of road leading to our village. A couple of weeks after that they came and laid new tarmac on the road, covering all of the cats eyes. A few days later they had a crew in the middle of the road with metal poles, breaking the tarmac off the cats eyes.

 

No idea if that's standard practice but it seemed a strange way of doing it to me.

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 

Thais have a real affiliation with concrete and cement

 Especially the Minister for Health!!

Every 'worker' here at every level just does what his boss says to do. Noone thinks for themselves. Noone asks questions.

 

Questions are a threat to status. Discussion can lead to disputes and thus to anger and thus to violence.

 

Best just to do your job exactly as the boss says ...

5 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Every 'worker' here at every level just does what his boss says to do. Noone thinks for themselves. Noone asks questions.

 

Questions are a threat to status. Discussion can lead to disputes and thus to anger and thus to violence.

 

Best just to do your job exactly as the boss says ...

Sad but true!

(Actually better deny I ever said this, as I already hear the apologists screaming)

18 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Not much different to them that make a road that has an obstacle in the middle they never moved.

Now i understand why so many power poles get hit.

19 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

 

Thais have a real affiliation with concrete and cement

Especially Abbots and Temples.

Why did they not wait till someone had an accident and died which seems the norm here, as happened near me not so long ago, power pole was not moved when widening the road, after the accident they tied a red rag around it and weeks later moved it. L O Stupidness. ""You can trust in Thailand'' to stuff most things up.

Wheelchair ramp into a wall at BTS Sailuat,

 

22 hours ago, nahkit said:

A few years ago they installed cats eyes on a section of road leading to our village. A couple of weeks after that they came and laid new tarmac on the road, covering all of the cats eyes. A few days later they had a crew in the middle of the road with metal poles, breaking the tarmac off the cats eyes.

 

No idea if that's standard practice but it seemed a strange way of doing it to me.

Cover with white tape is the tried and approved method

On 1/13/2021 at 11:41 AM, NanLaew said:

 

Right now they are widening the east side ring-road in Udon Thani which serves as part of Highway 2 from Bangkok to Nong Khai on the Lao border. They have removed the existing street lighting ahead of maybe two months of road-widening. Have they got that "wrong" as well?

Strange you should mention that, because i was going to comment that, if i remember correctly, all that street lighting was replaced only last year .....now dug up and gone.