Amazing Thailand - tourists get in on the hanging wire act

Image: Facebook/CH3

BANGKOK: -- Tourists in Koh Samui featured on the evening news as a Channel 3 crew went to the island to check on the state of the hanging wires at Chaweng.

"Take my picture",they called and told reporters that they had seen some bad hanging wires all over Thailand but Samui had to be the worst.

The film crew took a long video of the state of the electrics on the holiday island. Some locals were less enthusiastic than the tourists complaining about the danger of the wires especially in the rain and the fact that their pleas for something to be done were continually falling on deaf ears.

Interest in the wires has peaked this week after none other than Microsoft mogul Bill Gates posted a picture of some wires in Bangkok and commented about theft of electricity and poor internet capability in many countries including Thailand.

Online posters continued their comments about the issue. Some said that Channel 3 needn't have bothered going all the way to Samui - it is the same everywhere. Others wanted action to be taken to start to bury the unsightly wires underground.

Watch the video here: Facebook

-- 2016-06-30

Why's the walrus pointing at a lamp post?

I thought wires were the issue here . . .

The tangle he's pointing at, sort of, is like a granny knot on a shoelace compared to the real bird's nests that can be seen everywhere and that includes at my own front door.

555 ! It's, as wrote M Bill Gates, the same everywhere in SE Asia ;

in my Amphoe in Issan, Sawang Daen Din

But the worst I have seen is in Vientiane - Laos in november 2015 ;

same place, in front of True coffee

Usually the locals will have a herd time to find the way out of closed cupboard, but amazingly

they find and fix faults in those infamous " hanging wires of Thailand"......

Old school rocks!

It's often a Gordian Knot ; don't know how people working for PEA can work in these places ..

But what they haven't think about is are the pylons ;

they cannot support that excessive weight and often they collapse

Why's the walrus pointing at a lamp post?

I thought wires were the issue here . . .

Yeah that's because he is from Glasgow

And one of my favourite ways to deal with a bunch of wires where you want a structure -- this police box at the corner of Sukhumvit and Thepraset in Pattaya.

The wire art is a major tourist attraction.

You are right Khun Dr ; impossible to shot something like that in Paris, France;

all electric and phone wires are in the ground .

The pylon cannot collapse, they don't exist .

The photo in the OP looks like nothing out of the ordinary.

A sign of many years in SEA, I suppose.

The tangle he's pointing at, sort of, is like a granny knot on a shoelace compared to the real bird's nests that can be seen everywhere and that includes at my own front door.

If this licorice spaghetti is what they are proud to let everyone see, imagine the egregious dangers lurking out of sight.

But there is a simple explanation...no liability...because elites are the only ones that could be held liable if the Sakdina system of legislated inequality did not exist.

Can an informed person tell us what exactly they all are? 3 required for 3 phase power transmission. Are there lots of phone lines? Are they needed?

What's the problem???? Looks quite normal.

Will all be forgotten next week, then on to the next murder story.

'poor internet capability in many countries including Thailand'............Thailand shits all over Australia for infrastructure.Gates is full of bullshit.

The hub of bad wiring maybe?

Must be New in town He'll get used to see the Spaghetti on Poles,,

Only a matter of time before people get electrocuted en mass, a form of population control together with and road accidents

Guests in Thailand should mind their own business and make no negative comments on line about Thailand.

Go back to your home country and point your finger at all the Immigration and financial problems!

I really miss common sense...

Deport the guy that let himself be photographed and complained in public , problem solved ! !

Guests in Thailand should mind their own business and make no negative comments on line about Thailand.

Go back to your home country and point your finger at all the Immigration and financial problems!

I really miss common sense...

Tourists are not guests. If I pay to visit somewhere, then I am entitled to complain if things are not right. I sometimes compliment too.

If things are wrong with my home country then I complain about that too, and do not risk arrest for voicing that opinion.

...bury them....???

...good luck......

...it's not merely that they are unsightly.....it is a reflection of 'the state of mind' that prevails......

To be honest the wires are not much of a concern to me. As long as my power and internet are good you won't hear me complain. Recently they upgraded the electrical wires in the moo bahn on the outskirts of BKK where I live. It looks better now and if we are lucky it will also help against the occasional power outage.

In rich countries like Germany and the Netherlands they bury most of the power lines. We only have the real high power lines go through the landscape on huge towers and then go into the ground near villages.

Even the USA is not as advanced like Germany and the Netherlands so maybe we should mention that to Bill.

When I lived in Bali, every year there would be a "most beautiful village competition". Maybe Thailand could have competition each year for "worst rat's nest wiring".

the last time on was on Koh Samui there was no electricity. There wasn't much of anything actually. No real roads, no airport, no shops, no hotels ......... Just Bamboo huts scattered among the treeline along the beach.

I always stayed at 'First Bungalow' Chaweng beach.

Yes, for those who may ask, It was 'Paradise' then.

Wouldn't waste my time today. Wires or no wires.

View of Chaweng Beach Xmas 84

I was once told by a Thai telephone line installer/technician. "We hang them up so we can see where the problem is when it breaks. And we like them to break because it keeps us in work fixing them"

Guests in Thailand should mind their own business and make no negative comments on line about Thailand.

Go back to your home country and point your finger at all the Immigration and financial problems!

I really miss common sense...

WOW, bit grumpy this mornin, are we. In case you haven't noticed, this is a public forum. A vehicle for comment, positive & negative on any subject deemed appropriate by the mods.

If you continue to miss common sense, I'd suggest you improve your aim.

Cheers..... Mal.

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