webfact Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Amazing Thailand - tourists get in on the hanging wire act Image: Facebook/CH3BANGKOK: -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticBhoy Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Why's the walrus pointing at a lamp post? I thought wires were the issue here . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assurancetourix Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 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"...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Old school rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assurancetourix Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourAces Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Why's the walrus pointing at a lamp post? I thought wires were the issue here . . . Yeah that's because he is from Glasgow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inn Between Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 The wire art is a major tourist attraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assurancetourix Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Grumpy Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 The photo in the OP looks like nothing out of the ordinary. A sign of many years in SEA, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrowsdawdle Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrycallahan Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razer Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 What's the problem???? Looks quite normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twizzian Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Will all be forgotten next week, then on to the next murder story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 'poor internet capability in many countries including Thailand'............Thailand shits all over Australia for infrastructure.Gates is full of bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalf12 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 The hub of bad wiring maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc46 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Must be New in town He'll get used to see the Spaghetti on Poles,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smew Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Only a matter of time before people get electrocuted en mass, a form of population control together with and road accidents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabula Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smew Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Deport the guy that let himself be photographed and complained in public , problem solved ! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorG Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 ...bury them....??? ...good luck...... ...it's not merely that they are unsightly.....it is a reflection of 'the state of mind' that prevails...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robblok Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpofc Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keesters Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malt25 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandalf12 Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 (edited) DOUBLE POST DELETED Edited June 30, 2016 by gandalf12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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