Flaming tribute: Woman’s candlelit car respect turns into fiery fiasco

[webfact]

 

A woman’s act of lighting candles and joss sticks to pay respect to her car on Chinese Sart Day went up in flames. The car, parked in a private parking lot in Samut Songkhram, was engulfed in flames, threatening over 20 nearby vehicles. Firefighters swiftly attended the car fire scene today, quickly extinguishing the blaze.

 

The incident involved a Honda Civic Sedan, with registration number 5กช6480, owned by 36 year old Alisa. The vehicle was parked in a car park when it caught fire, with the flames rapidly consuming the entire car. The urgency to extinguish the fire was heightened as the location was a private car park where over 20 vehicles were parked nearby.

 

It took approximately 20 minutes for the fire department to bring the fire under control. Upon investigation, the mother of the car owner revealed that her daughter had lit joss sticks and candles to pay respects to the car for the Chinese Sart festival. 

 

by Nattapong Westwood

Photo courtesy of KhaoSod

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/car-fire-risk-in-samut-songkhram-womans-chinese-sart-day-ritual-sparks-blaze-threatening-20-vehicles-2

 

-- The Thaiger 2023-08-31

 

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[JoePai]

As my Chief once told me "you can allow for fools but not bloody fools"

[2baht]

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

the mother of the car owner revealed that her daughter had lit joss sticks and candles to pay respects to the car for the Chinese Sart festival. 

Well do you still respect the car??? ????

[klauskunkel]

Light a fire and leave, what could possibly go wrong?

[billd766]

Respect to a heap of metal and plastic? It is only a car.

 

[rocketboy2]

Best Darwin story 2023. 

[roo860]

These muppets never fail to amuse.

[hotchilli]

Honey, how many Loss sticks and candles did you light for good luck?

[2baht]

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

Respect to a heap of metal and plastic? It is only a car.

 

A luxury Honda Civic no less, status! ????

[ignore it]

Meaning no offense to Thais of Chinese origin or Chinese.

 

Ha ha ha ha !

[Stargeezr]

Petrol vapors forgotten about? Not a good mix, open flame and petrol.

  Another person not thinking.

[tomazbodner]

9 hours ago, billd766 said:

Respect to a heap of metal and plastic? It is only a car.

 

Was.

[richard_smith237]

50 minutes ago, Stargeezr said:

Petrol vapors forgotten about? Not a good mix, open flame and petrol.

  Another person not thinking.

Why would there be petrol vapours ???...  tank was leaking or something ?

 

This takes an exceptional degree of fluckwittery....  outstanding effort on behalf of this woman... 

 

 

[RobU]

10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Why would there be petrol vapours ???...  tank was leaking or something ?

 

This takes an exceptional degree of fluckwittery....  outstanding effort on behalf of this woman... 

 

 

There are always petrol vapours in an enclosed garage the petrol tank on a car is never completely airtight. In fact there is a hole to allow air in to replace petrol that is used

[Confuscious]

It amazes me every day how Thais have managed to survive all these years.
A complete mistery to Darwin's theory.

[richard_smith237]

9 minutes ago, Confuscious said:

It amazes me every day how Thais have managed to survive all these years.
A complete mistery to Darwin's theory.

These examples of which we read are not the 'tip of the iceberg' as some would wish to believe, but the extreme end of the spectrum.

 

Most Thai's are not this stupid, otherwise as you mention, how would they have survived.

[Grumpy one]

I would love to ne there when the insurance claim is lodged