A video circulating on social media has captured a foreign man urinating on a busy road in Phuket amidst a traffic jam, oblivious to the many onlookers. The incident, which happened on Patong Beach Road, was posted on a Facebook page called "1วันพันกว่าเรื่อง ภูเก็ต" (which translates to 'over 1,000 things happening in a day'), on July 18th.

 

The video reveals the man fastening his shorts but doesn't show the act itself. He tries to cover his face from the camera, rushing back to a white car parked nearby.

 

The person filming the incident can be heard expressing disgust in a local dialect, criticizing the man's actions.

 

 

The local broadcaster, Amarin TV, reported that the unusual event occurred on Patong Beach Road in Phuket's Katu district.

 

The footage has sparked significant attention and criticism from local residents and online viewers. Many expressed disappointment not just with the man's public indecent exposure but also towards the local authorities.

 

Many of the viewers' comments begged for the installation of more public restrooms and clearer signs in multiple languages to assist tourists. Some even urged the officials to instate harsher penalties for tourists who partake in such uncivil behaviour.

 

 

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So Thai men never pee by the roadside ?

Wot's the big deal? We see it here in the rice paddies, all the time, including older ladies squatting inside their sarongs on the side of the road.

When ya gotta go .......

18 minutes ago, JoePai said:

So Thai men never pee by the roadside ?

I have seen that many, many times; so much that the owner of some apartments had a sign made telling men not to urinate at the bottom of his drive (just off the road) because of the smell.

So what sort of sign does he put out for the soi dogs?

43 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 

A video circulating on social media has captured a foreign man urinating on a busy road in Phuket amidst a traffic jam, oblivious to the many onlookers.

 

 

 

 

 

Why did nobody post video of the homeless Thai man taking a <deleted> in the middle of Sukhumvit soi 3 the other day?

 

or the taxi drivers that drink whisky on soi 11 and piss on our wall, forcing my neighbor to brick up a window to get the smell of piss out of their kitchen?

 

<deleted> hypocites

...when you've gotta go you've gotta go!

 

bob.

19 minutes ago, bdenner said:

So what sort of sign does he put out for the soi dogs?

Sign-in-id .........

Maybe they could install some free, clean, public toilets for tourists to use?

This behavior is quite alright for farmers, of course.

 

If in a car, do not stop by a busy thoroughfare.

Instead, just carry some suitable container.

 

Then wait to pass by a suitable place, before dumping over the side.

 

Also, in years past, I would see this kind of thing in both Taiwan and China, and still do.

 

But, just before, or during, urination, ....

One should whistle.

 

Regarding this whistling....

 

a. It helps males to get the flow started.

b. It helps to distract oneself from feeling any shame.

 

When you whistle, do not whistle a tune.

You just whistle short repeated toots, of whistling...

Just as our mothers in China taught us...

When we were very young,

Urinating on the side of the road,

Or into a road grating,

Or, just about anywhere.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Some even urged the officials to instate harsher penalties for tourists who partake in such uncivil behaviour.

But not locals?

Hire him as a Patong street cleaner he will make a far better job. 

Thai me, pish in the street all the time.

 

In all my 67 years I have seen this happen many times, both here and back in the US. In the US though, almost all of the time they will find a tree to hide behind, on the back side of their car, behind a building etc, so that no one, especially children will see them. Here, I've seen it hundreds of times, literally, and they go on the side of the road, just facing the opposite direction from the road, not bothering to hide. My ex's mom, who was on a scooter with me going to their farm, asked me to stop. She walked off the road a few meters, stopped, squatted and crapped. People passed by and she didn't care in the least. She also would walk by out from the shower, when I stayed there before the house was built, topless (she's 67), and not care either, but laugh when she saw me standing there. The morality here fades in comparison to back home. It is what it is.

1 hour ago, bdenner said:

So what sort of sign does he put out for the soi dogs?

 

"doggy go pee pee - NO! BAD DOGGY - DOGGY GO"

The Thai man filming and showing his disgust is dramatizing it for effect because it was a foreigner. If it was a thai man he would not have bothered as i am sure he has seen many Thai man doing this before. 

There it is again.

Deliberately initiated

anti-foreigner outrage about a petty incident.

It might distract from the Phuket MC-Taxi-thugs gang-beating a foreigner to unconsciousness. Right?

I guess those had also taken a leak after, by laughing about it.

3 hours ago, bdenner said:

So what sort of sign does he put out for the soi dogs?

The cats too. 

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The footage has sparked significant attention and criticism from local residents and online viewers.

Every little BS gets "significant" attention from locals when foreigners are involved.

Only outnumbered by announcements of "new" hubs.

15 minutes ago, Maitdjai said:

Every little BS gets "significant" attention from locals when foreigners are involved.

Only outnumbered by announcements of "new" hubs.

Perhaps anything out of the ordinary done by a foreigner is now clickbait for Thais. 

1 hour ago, Maitdjai said:

Every little BS gets "significant" attention from locals when foreigners are involved.

Only outnumbered by announcements of "new" hubs.

Did you actually read the Facebook comments?

Or sort of just imagined what you think they would have said?

4 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

My ex's mom, who was on a scooter with me going to their farm, asked me to stop. She walked off the road a few meters, stopped, squatted and crapped.

Sounds like a keeper.

Big difference between peeing on your car tyre on the side of a road, or tree, than openly peeing right in the middle of a busy street. Dogs do that!

5 hours ago, JoePai said:

So Thai men never pee by the roadside ?

 

At our local Big C the Grab blokes etc just pee up the wall in the underground car park near their bikes, the place stinks. There is a toilet upstairs about 3 minutes walk away!

Perhaps netziens should ask themselves just how many public toilets there in Patong and specifically on Patong beach and then dive deeper and ask just how clean they are. Thailand may be the land of smiles but certainly not the land of sufficient, well maintained public toilets.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The person filming the incident can be heard expressing disgust in a local dialect, criticizing the man's actions

Nothing better to do?

51 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

Perhaps netziens should ask themselves just how many public toilets there in Patong and specifically on Patong beach and then dive deeper and ask just how clean they are. Thailand may be the land of smiles but certainly not the land of sufficient, well maintained public toilets.

Well said....

Thai taxi drivers urinating by the roadside, a daily occurrence, yet no outrage from netizens.

If it's a foreigner, however, it becomes worthy of indignation and headline material... 

15 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Maybe they could install some free, clean, public toilets for tourists to use?

Why not for Anyone to use, not just tourists.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He tries to cover his face from the camera, rushing back to a white car parked nearby.

 

Who films that?

It never happened to me, but if I would be in my car in traffic, and I would absolutely have to pee, and if I wouldn't have a bottle or something like that, then I would probably also pee outside. What's the alternative? Pee into the car?