3 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

It's good the locals appreciate his efforts so let's hope the local authorities do as well because if any officials get their knickers in a twist ... !

Yikes!  No work permit

Good motivation, but I see problems coming vis-a-vis a work permit !

4 hours ago, fruitman said:

Is this you Kannot?

He is awfully quit. would have expected him in a topic like this.

Arrest him, he's stealing Thai jobs.

19 minutes ago, robblok said:

He is awfully quit. would have expected him in a topic like this.

 

He quit his job? I guess he's fixing another road right now before more people get hurt. After that he'll build some dams to protect his village against floods. When that's finished he'll dig some lakes so his family has water during the next drought. All Thai men will hate him.

Edited September 27, 20169 yr by fruitman

Oh my..mai mai..my Thai friend said they will try to take legal action againstPapa Peter for Embarrassing the Local Thai and for defamation  insinuating that locals and local authorities are lazy, corrupt and negligent. Oh Papa  better sink kwikly into the next holeu can get into ???

Kind of respect him for doing rather than usual sitting on his farang arse with usual drink & talk .

Local Amper indeed may be unhappy with him :-)
Annoying thing is why thai's can't do simple stuff like this themselves. be easy for them submit petitions, record vehicle damage etc then after year or so follow up with community team doing it & send it viral to shame the scum in charge . laziness & corruption are huge here & just because uncle buck tells us it all getting better doesn't mean it is lol ...

 

 

That concrete base would be perfect for a mid-road shrine to be established

 

3 hours ago, Johnniey said:

Pathetic. Another old guy unable to accept the way things are done here and the ignorance to try to do it himself.  This is a slap in the face for the local council and from a farang. What on earth is his Thai wife doing, letting do such a thing?

I am rapidly coming round to the view that you are actually  a parody of one of those farangs who are more Thai than the Thais.

 

Do keep it up.

 

Its really rather funny. 

 

Until he is deported for not having a work permit.

 

 

Brigante7

good guy hope all the interest doesn't get him in trouble for helping with no Work Permit. TIT

4 hours ago, Jack Mountain said:

Why don't the local Thais repair it? 

I have seen that in the village where I live and it is very common not matter what needs to be done, a large percentage of the local population will turn out.

Wondering what the labour office are thinking... working without permit and taking jobs from the locals :-D

4 hours ago, webfact said:

- and the locals love him for it. And he is reaching into his pockets too.

 

And the locals love him for it?

And he is reaching into his pockets too?

 

4 hours ago, Jack Mountain said:

Why don't the local Thais repair it? 

In stead of giving credit to the guy, you just had to come with criticism instead, right?

When I was building my house I told the workers to go put cement in the holes in the road outside my wall ,they all said stupid farang

He needs to get out more,spending his hard earned money and time on trying to fix up a country who's government couldn't give a toss.

 

If he's that concerned he should be pushing his Thai wife to speak to the usual village tossers siphoning the coffers to repair it.

 

It makes people do strange things does Thailand,poor chap.

 

 

Roads with 1 to 3 numbers seems to be maintained a bit better.  The small 2 laners, often 4 number designations, can be like the surface of the moon. 

17 minutes ago, JAG said:

I am rapidly coming round to the view that you are actually  a parody of one of those farangs who are more Thai than the Thais.

 

Do keep it up.

 

Its really rather funny. 

 

You couldn't be more wrong. Pray tell why you jump to that assumption.

3 minutes ago, stoneyboy said:

He needs to get out more,spending his hard earned money and time on trying to fix up a country who's government couldn't give a toss.

 

If he's that concerned he should be pushing his Thai wife to speak to the usual village tossers siphoning the coffers to repair it.

 

It makes people do strange things does Thailand,poor chap.

 

 

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.

Give it 48 hours and he will be arrested and fined for not having a WP to do this lol

1 minute ago, stoneyboy said:

He needs to get out more,spending his hard earned money and time on trying to fix up a country who's government couldn't give a toss.

 

If he's that concerned he should be pushing his Thai wife to speak to the usual village tossers siphoning the coffers to repair it.

 

It makes people do strange things does Thailand,poor chap.

 

 

 

On his knees in the road paying to take it up the exhaust by various lazy, cosseted buffoons.

 

It still just boils down to him paying to pump and grind while they prance the money away.

 

Anyone for bukake?

In my village the guy responsible for the road used the money to build somewhere for the people to sit and talk and do activities ,he then put his vehicles in it so the people would have to ask him if they could use it ,they didn't want to ask him so he ask his own place for his vehicles in the shade for free

How embarrassing for Thailand and the City Hall concerned that a visitor to the country has to repair the roads. Hope he's got a work permit because I think road repairing is a job reserved for Thais only.

He is doing something positive to help his local community - and the locals love him for it. And he is reaching into his pockets too

 

    With all respect, this is going a little bit too far. All provinces have their local office for rural roads and quite a few complaints would have done the trick as well.

 

    Sorry, but it seems that the guy doesn't know what else to do. I hope that they arrest him for working without a work permit and depart him to Buri Ram, somewhere out in the sticks. 

4 hours ago, stubuzz said:

There was a similar story not long ago.  The authorities were not to pleased about foreigners fixing roads.

Probably because they do a better job...

but on a serious note there is plenty of work to keep road maintenance crews busy, I don't know forever?

putting a patch of cement into a bitumen road is a very short term fix at best. have to say the roads do seem to have degraded over the last year or 2. has road maintenance funding been cut? there is a small lake forming on the road outside my girls esan house. was thinking about paying 500thb to have a load of crushed rock put in it. passing cars splashed mud and water all over the fence which i have just painted. (yes i have a work permit)

If you build it, we will come.

1 minute ago, Graemej100 said:

How embarrassing for Thailand and the City Hall concerned that a visitor to the country has to repair the roads.

 

If this is his thinking then he completely fails to see the extent of Project Thailand's ability to create their own reality.

Working without a work permit ! <deleted>, get out this thug of Thailand, he took the job of some thai dude !