Duck for your life: Thais plea for officials to fix exposed cables on their overpass

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By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Boonyuen Siritum

 

BANGKOK: -- Exposed cables that stretch over an overpass near the popular Bangkaew Market in Bangkok's outskirts have become a topic of discussion on Facebook today, with locals virtually shaking their heads at how poorly their government handled the wiring.

 

Thailand is known for its “cable art” that even Bill Gates noticed and shared on his Facebook.

 

This instance, however, is tougher to joke about as people in Samut Songkhram have had to duck under the wires to avoid possible electrocution.

 

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/10/31/duck-your-life-thais-plea-officials-fix-exposed-cables-their-overpass-photos

 

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"This instance, however, is tougher to joke about as people in Samut Songkhram have had to duck under the wires to avoid possible electrocution."

The cables appear to be insulated otherwise anyone touching those handrails would be electrocuted. It is not unbelievable to see this as some of the typical shoddy wiring practices carried out in this country have been shown on TVF may times in the past. The local authorities responsible for this pedestrian overpass should be hauled up on charges for allowing the electrical contractors / PEA to leave cables in such a manner.

One shouldn't try to advise the country health & safety measures referencing electricity or anything along these lines. It gives them something to hold onto ....


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Qualified electricians are every where, their planning,

and experience are so evident. One of many many examples of

shoddy work practices, loss of face ?

loss of your marbles if you think that is acceptable,

such a complex problem measuring from point A to B 

Between a rock and a hard place: shall we run across the street and get killed by a brake failure, or shall we get electrocuted on the overpass bridge? Life is full of choices.

You see this sort of thing all over the place and no one ever seems to complain. It may be that the people here are not so much worried about the very real danger, but rather that they have to go to the trouble of ducking under the wires.

 

a friend's husband's mother died when she was cutting mangos from a tree and cut through an electricity cable threaded through the tree.

 

shorting out all those tangled cables and securing them safely or replacing them underground would be quite a task.

 Thailand is known for its “cable art” that even Bill Gates noticed and shared on his Facebook.

 

 

no ,Thailand is known for its useless civil servants that only work if they gain something in the process. How stupid are these people who leave a job finished in this state ,where this "safety first" bs they speak ?

19 minutes ago, bangkokfrog said:

You see this sort of thing all over the place and no one ever seems to complain. It may be that the people here are not so much worried about the very real danger, but rather that they have to go to the trouble of ducking under the wires.

Where actually all over the world do you see this , besides third world and Asia.

Another instance of new Licenced Electricians using their newly acquired skills by cutting cost in using existing structure,if it wasn't serious it would be funny ,  nothing like (by the looks of it) high voltage cable strung over metal that over time will wear the insulation away making the whole structure alive. 

These cables are not exposed as they are insulated, telecom and fibre optic cables and there is no danger whatsoever of electrocution.  This looks like a new pedestrian footbridge that has been built in the path of the cables so that there should have been contact with the telecom companies to move their cables before the bridge was constructed.

The bridge in front of Huahin hospital have the same problem.

Just another blatant example about the shortage of common sense here. Godzilla could make an appearance in Bangkok and unlike the Japanese scurrying about for a solution, the folks here would just take selfies with it.

There are more walkingbridges with cables like this in Thailand. 

 

Let the ones who hang them this way pay for changing it in a week time, if not send them a high bill for every week they wait to fix it.

1 hour ago, chainarong said:

Where actually all over the world do you see this , besides third world and Asia.

No you don't. Parts of Asia yes but certainly not in the Western countries. Where do you live to say you see it all over the world?

4 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

"This instance, however, is tougher to joke about as people in Samut Songkhram have had to duck under the wires to avoid possible electrocution."

The cables appear to be insulated otherwise anyone touching those handrails would be electrocuted. It is not unbelievable to see this as some of the typical shoddy wiring practices carried out in this country have been shown on TVF may times in the past. The local authorities responsible for this pedestrian overpass should be hauled up on charges for allowing the electrical contractors / PEA to leave cables in such a manner.

Come ooonn!! They built the overpass after the cables where there and the architect didn't know about the cables, I mean how could he? Reminds me of another overpass that has a power pole sticking up thru a square hole in the passage way.....

1 hour ago, chainarong said:

Where actually all over the world do you see this , besides third world and Asia.

To be fair (yes, I know this is TV) he didn't actually say "all over the world" he said "all over the place" which is more likely to mean, in context, "everywhere in Bangkok"

Been here 6 years, nothing surprises me.  Just

be very careful it's  a 3rd World Country for sure!!

Maybe the subject to be moved to the "common sense in Thailand" - just an idea? 

I am confused, did the cables just fall from their original poorly placed position to the bridge walkway or was someone really so lazy that they thought this would be ok to just run wires through a walkway. I would assume the latter but hope at least it was just an accident that was overlooked, repeatedly and constantly. Otherwise it was a failure to do it correct in the first place and then constant looking the other way while saying Mai Pen Rai... =[

 

One obviously worse because of intended neglect the other still half as bad because of neglect to maintain... =\

 

Only in Thailand is right... Ugh... !!

Just now, Sydebolle said:

"common sense in Thailand"

An oxymoron, surely?

2 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

a friend's husband's mother died when she was cutting mangos from a tree and cut through an electricity cable threaded through the tree.

 

shorting out all those tangled cables and securing them safely or replacing them underground would be quite a task.

What was she using a chainsaw

Looks like plenty of room to go underneath the Bridge, I think the Bridge builder pushed them up without consulting the Communications company's.  It is not easy to cut reroute and splice these cables, probably cheaper to cut the bridge and rebuild.

I would rather they worry about the thousands of razor sharp roof edges hanging about 6' ready to scalp unsuspecting taller people. TIT though, gotta love it. Shopping is very dangerous for tall people here.

23 minutes ago, little mary sunshine said:

Been here 6 years, nothing surprises me.  Just

be very careful it's  a 3rd World Country for sure!!

With all the highly developed countries in the world, why on earth would you choose to exist for six years in a third world country with so many faults.

After all, thousands of people from third world countries are risking life and  limb every day to find refuge in European havens.

 

5 hours ago, ScotBkk said:

One shouldn't try to advise the country health & safety measures referencing electricity or anything along these lines. It gives them something to hold onto ....


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What health and safety authority ?

They are not exposed wires, they are wires that are in people's way.....anyway, they are telecommunication wires.

2 hours ago, chainarong said:

Where actually all over the world do you see this , besides third world and Asia.

 

He did say all over the place, not world, probably referring to other places in BKK/Thailand.

That bridge is probably the only place you can get their claimed download speed of 10Mbps.

31 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

With all the highly developed countries in the world, why on earth would you choose to exist for six years in a third world country with so many faults.

After all, thousands of people from third world countries are risking life and  limb every day to find refuge in European havens.

 

 

European havens??? Been to London, Paris, Brussels, lately?  I take

Phuket, Chiang Mai , BKK. Over them any day!!  A different World!!