Junkyarddog Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 This guy is making the rest of us look bad. I say we lynch him. Who's with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 In a worst case scenario one pothole re-emerges after an overloaded truck ran over it. Next a motorcycle driver crashes in and will sue the shitake out of "Papa" for causing the damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaswegian Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Just now, Johnniey said: Exactly. I blame his wife for letting the poor guy make a fool of himself. Then again, she is probably half his age and wants to keep him naive for obvious reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmacee Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Good on you ..got a few on my road ..for over a year ....tempted to get some sand and cement and fill them in .. They tell me there always a village elder (or whatever they are called) but guess need to do a 'donation' to make thinks happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinisaan Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, JaseTheBass said: The news report got it wrong again then. Should be Herr Peter. :) Did he ( Herr Peter) make it out of the Irrenhaus? ( mental hospital) Edited September 27, 2016 by lostinisaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 5 hours ago, Jack Mountain said: Why don't the local Thais repair it? As my old grandmother used to say "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Working without a permit.....at least a fifty thousand baht fine. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LannaGuy Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 i think it's great... but he really does need a WP according to Thai Law so he would be wise to think again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgordo38 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 4 hours ago, Fookhaht said: He's definitely taking away work from Thais who don't/won't do it. Such a dilemma. Forget the workers the repair money was long gone before it filtered down to them. You know the drill folks! subs, tanks, anything military first. Medical road and school repairs etc. last. Its the trickle up effect not down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinisaan Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 6 minutes ago, elgordo38 said: As my old grandmother used to say "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink" That doesn't work for female horses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 1 minute ago, lostinisaan said: That doesn't work for female horses? or alcoholic horses either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinisaan Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 (edited) 3 minutes ago, kannot said: or alcoholic horses either Some Kannot understand that. But it's true...... Edited September 27, 2016 by lostinisaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinisaan Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Jools said: Working without a permit.....at least a fifty thousand baht fine. :D And being the village fool/idiot + 100,000 baht per year for Lao Khao..... I hope he didn't close our favorite fishing spot..... Edited September 27, 2016 by lostinisaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey4u Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 5 hours ago, Jack Mountain said: Why don't the local Thais repair it? Way too hard for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkles Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 3 hours ago, ratcatcher said: Great! Another old guy doing something for the benefit of his community and apparently doing it well and receiving 100% support from 2,169,000 people and those in his village. If the local council or puyai gave a toss, they would have shown up and had a chat with him and discussed his road mending abilities. Might even have learned how to repair a local blacktop road. And warned him not to do it again as they lost face big time. I seriously doubt if he will be deported or seriously reprimanded. No but he just elimated the kick back set up for roads maintenace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samsensam Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 nice effort and hat's off to him. unfortunately he is wasting his time, repairing a tarmac road with what looks like concrete isn't going to last long. he'd probably do better giving the local highway people a backhander to fix them properly, well probably not properly, but at least use appropriate materials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 2 minutes ago, samsensam said: nice effort and hat's off to him. unfortunately he is wasting his time, repairing a tarmac road with what looks like concrete isn't going to last long. he'd probably do better giving the local highway people a backhander to fix them properly, well probably not properly, but at least use appropriate materials. ill pass your info re concrete ( thermal expansion rate differences) onto the orbortor...................who uses concrete now instead of tarmac mainly because it DOES last longer due to "application method" ie throw tarmac in hole loosely then let vehicles compact ( sic) it. time to revisit my old thread me thinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinisaan Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 He's old enough to understand the laws. People made jokes about working without a work permit, but that might soon happen. When the deadly Tsunami hit Thailand end Germany immediately sent forensic specialists, they're sent back home after only a few days, or maybe hours. Thais don't want foreigners to fix their roads for several reasons. 1. It makes them look lazy and they lose face. 2. It makes the guy whose job it is look like a lazy pricka, nobody wants that. 3. The department of rural roads, the part belongs to will also have a word, as not everybody can just start to do some construction work, even when it makes sense. 4. The locals will come up with stories that they don't have a job, because somebody will give the fool something. 5. This is Thailand and road constructions are usually made by Thais, guys from Laos, or Cambodia. 6. The teacher who put the photos on her farcebook page might be his Mia Noi now by many people. Finally, the guy made a fool out of him. You can do that in rural Bavaria, where they still mumble a not understandable slang, but not in Lieland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bantex Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Good PR for resident foreigners. I'm waiting for the first accident where this pothole repair is cited as the cause of the accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinisaan Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 5 minutes ago, Bantex said: Good PR for resident foreigners. I'm waiting for the first accident where this pothole repair is cited as the cause of the accident. Or when they kick his arshe for closing their one and only fishing spot..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseTheBass Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I looked on the Govt website and couldn't see anything about needing a work permit for the white man's burden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimino Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 The point is well made that appropriate authorities might be embarrassed by Mr. Peter's actions. To that we say "Good!" Perhaps they might then be driven to do the right thing. While they are at it, those 'appropriate authorities' in Chiang Mai might take a look at all the graffiti that defaces the city. They can easily remove graffiti on public spaces and can require owners of private property so vandalised to do the same. Apprehending the graffiti 'artists' would also serve as a good deterrent. Gaol, fine and/or either/both. Too easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotheruser Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 54 minutes ago, Lupatria said: In a worst case scenario one pothole re-emerges after an overloaded truck ran over it. Next a motorcycle driver crashes in and will sue the shitake out of "Papa" for causing the damage. Exactly the same thing I was thinking. Also the people saying he will get in trouble for a work permit etc. should consider he would face far worse doing this in a western country. No first world country in the world that I know of would let somebody do something like this without a permit and approval. I once plowed a forest road in the USA with out permission and got into a bit of trouble over that. If he didn't put metal and build this right it might be more of a danger than it was. More power to him but he would get into trouble in many countries if he attempted such a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracas Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 He can not be a TV member, he has way too much spare time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Deerhunter Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 2 hours ago, JHolmesJr said: What's up with calling such guys "Papa"? He is not your damn papa. Some Thais apparently call us older Farangs "Papa" as some sort of mark of respect.when they get to know us a bit. I get called it at my local Immigration office to my amusement and my (younger Thai) wife says they are being polite and she sees no offence in it. She would tell me if they were "extracting the Michael." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realenglish1 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Kudos to Mr Peter This really shows thais what farangs are about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHolmesJr Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Just shows how bored farangs in thailand actually are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 4 hours ago, Johnniey said: Of course they are, they are all by Kusuma Namwon's friends. Put it on the Labour Dept.'s facebook page or the Road Department's site and you'll see some very different responses. Roads here are not made to last, it how the local government make a livable wage, getting contracts/money to repair the same roads every year. Or perhaps to reverse the chicken and the egg, they buy the cheapest materials available so that they can trouser the difference, meaning the roads need repairing much sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 1 minute ago, JHolmesJr said: Just shows how bored farangs in thailand actually are. What a lovely thing to do; sneer at someone who actually does something for his local community *and* gives farang a good name. And what exactly have you contributed other than regular bar tabs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudger1951 Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 No doubt he will be told not do this because road repairs have to be done to a certain standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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