Thailand's latest tourist attraction for "farang selfies": Those Hanging Wires!

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Thai netizens in Phetchabun went into irony overdrive after a frustrated woman posted on Facebook about the ever enlarging and unsightly tangle of wires outside her home.

 

Sunantha, 53, said that there are frequent sparks and fires and it's only a matter of time before her house catches fire.

 

Sanook went to see her and made a mock dramatic video with her as the star in an effort to get something done.

 

Onliners had said that this was a true Amazing Thailand Tourist Attraction.

 

It should be left in place so that "farang tourists" could come and take selfies and spread the word about the country's amazing attractions. 

 

Such comments are not all that far from the truth as foreign visitors often take pictures of the mess found on many street corners in the country. 

 

One such was Bill Gates whose post five years ago shamed PM Prayuth Chan-ocha into starting a multi billion baht clean up in tourist areas and big cities by burying cables and wires. 

 

But this campaign has not reached everywhere - not by a long wire...er chalk. 

 

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[Mavideol]

54 minutes ago, webfact said:

One such was Bill Gates whose post five years ago shamed PM Prayuth Chan-ocha into starting a multi billion baht clean up in tourist areas and big cities by burying cables and wires. 

and where did the PM started such a clean up because it still there, even worse then before, workers replace new lines leaving the old ones hanging or thrown in the middle of the road.... amazingly thailand that keeps amaizing us on a daily basis

[Kwasaki]

Old City had been clean up pretty good, wire down and gone underground still doesn't stop lecky going off in storms though. ????

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Such comments are not all that far from the truth as foreign visitors often take pictures of the mess found on many street corners in the country. 

It doesn't stop at the corners.

[rwill]

It's not the electric wires that are the mess.  It's the internet providers.  I have a theory that their employees get paid by how meters of wire they install.

[Gold Star]

We ain't seen nothing yet.

We have seen what the organized professionals have done.

Just wait till every average Somchai runs his cable out his window from his flat through all this mess in order to charge his electric vehicle along every footpath and roadside.

[bluejets]

As a longstanding qualified lecky, I am really amazed at how they know what is what in those wiring rats nests.

[unblocktheplanet]

Shutterbug friend just took a pic at lunch on soi 11. A crew was moving down the wires, leaning a bamboo ladder supported by the wires...to string a new wire! Cool, wish we had these guys in Canada. Oh, right--ice on the wires...

[D M G]

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

...but on deaf ears

[SiSePuede419]

Assume those are 3BB wires that they can't troubleshoot? 

 

We finally switched to ToT after having problems they couldn't resolve since last summer (frozen video calls, unstable connections).

[Maybole]

18 months ago the transformer outside our village market spectacularly blew up. Next day a crew installed a temporary replacement but left the old redundant wiring hanging, adults had to stop children from swinging on them. A week later another crew installed a permanent transformer complete with about  half a Km in all new wiring. Again they failed to remove the old wiring. It is still there and I cannot see how any repair crew could sort out which is live from which has been disconnected.

[Mavideol]

17 hours ago, D M G said:

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

...but on deaf ears

"A picture is worth a thousand words" ... unless shown to blind people and Thai government has lots of (blind) them  555

[orchidfan]

On 12/16/2021 at 2:25 PM, Kwasaki said:

Old City had been clean up pretty good, wire down and gone underground still doesn't stop lecky going off in storms though. ????

In Hong Kong  ALL the wires...electric and landline/Internet are underground. 

In living there 20years, we NEVER lost power, internet, phone or TV reception for a minute.....including during horrendous typhoons and other violent storms. 

That's the difference....they do it properly ????

[Pedrogaz]

Third world country wiring.

[yogi yogi]

what if a squirrel chews on a wire  the whole grid goes down

[D M G]

On 12/16/2021 at 10:44 AM, Maybole said:

18 months ago the transformer outside our village market spectacularly blew up. Next day a crew installed a temporary replacement but left the old redundant wiring hanging, adults had to stop children from swinging on them. A week later another crew installed a permanent transformer complete with about  half a Km in all new wiring. Again they failed to remove the old wiring. It is still there and I cannot see how any repair crew could sort out which is live from which has been disconnected.

Guessing - 25% of the wires are functioning, the rest are obsolete.  Burying the wires is a great idea, but maybe Step 1 is clearing out the Obsolete Wire.

[Maybole]

Hong Kong is in the Typhoon belt. High winds and wires on poles are not a good mix.

The same happened ten years ago in the Scottish highlands. Most electrical supply went through overhead wires for economy. Two successive years of severe Atlantic winter gales caused so much damage that a programme of burying the cables had to set up at great expense.