Amazing Thailand! Thais mock engineers after picture of buried hydrant goes viral

[webfact]

Amazing Thailand! Thais mock engineers after picture of buried hydrant goes viral

 

Picture: Facebook "lokwitsawakam"

 

A picture posted to an engineering site showed what appeared to be a new footpath.

 

There was just one problem: a fire hydrant had been buried and was now unusable. 

 

Channel 7 said that netizens were asking: What if there is a fire?!

 

The picture appeared on a Facebook site "lokwitsawakam" whose full name translates as "Open Your Mind to the World of Engineering". 

 

The facetious tagline began the mockery....it said: "We can bury the wires so why can't we bury the fire hydrants?"

 

A post ridiculing the situation with a large number of likes just said: "Great! You've got the job!".

 

Channel 7 did not say where the picture was taken. 

 

Source: Channel 7

 

 

 

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[petermik]

I hope they put cones round it so no-one trips over it.........

[keith101]

Maybe they didn't have enough concrete to finish the job so just grabbed an old hydrant to use as a filler .

[colinneil]

Why people laugh at us? Say the contractors, we were told to lay new concrete.

That is exactly what we did, nobody said avoid the hydrant.????

[CGW]

Credit where it is due! apart from the small matter of a buried hydrant which probably has no water feed, the footpath is the "best" I have ever seen in Thailand!

Have long wondered if they were trying to promote a high risk adventure coarse that they were going to promote to the "new" tourists they are hoping to attract!

I survived the footpaths of Thailand T-shirts going on sale soon.

[mtls2005]

On the plus side, the utility pole is NOT in the middle of the road.

 

One of many...

 

 

[spiekerjozef]

You think you've seen it all but this country keeps surprising you.

Love it ! I'm not even gonna ask what were you thinking.

Keep doing what you're doing Thailand, I just love it !

[Saddic]

Thailand hab drought... no water... no need hydrant...

[HOAX]

Looking at the picture, the fire hydrant isn't the only "engineering" flaw. In addition to the Pisa poles in the middle of the walking path, you already know the ground preparation is horrible and the cement blocks is of the lowest quality possible. Within a month or two people will already be tripping all over the wavy, uneven, cracked and loose blocks.

[KeeTua]

Maybe whoever was in charge of shutting off the water and properly configuring the hydrant, government agency probably, would not get it done in a timely fashion. If I was the contractor doing the footpath with a full crew and equipment on site I'd have done the same and let whoever is truly at fault sort it out later.

[spiekerjozef]

Within a month they have to open the whole thing up anyway.

They forgot the wastewater pipes...

[DrTuner]

That's usual here. There is no project management so the crews do whatever they want in whatever sequence randomly. <deleted>-up & brewery.

[Assurancetourix]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

There was just one problem: a fire hydrant had been buried and was now unusable. 

In this period of extreme drought, it seems to me that it is of no importance;
and then the workers who did this did not do so without asking the chief;

 

Chief, can we bury the red thing, right here ? 

[TKDfella]

2 hours ago, CGW said:

Credit where it is due! apart from the small matter of a buried hydrant which probably has no water feed, the footpath is the "best" I have ever seen in Thailand!

Have long wondered if they were trying to promote a high risk adventure coarse that they were going to promote to the "new" tourists they are hoping to attract!

I survived the footpaths of Thailand T-shirts going on sale soon.

If the hydrant has no feed maybe someone else may along soon to dig it up leaving the sidewalk messy or a hole.

[Phuketshrew]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The picture appeared on a Facebook site "lokwitsawakam" whose full name translates as "Open Your Mind to the World of Engineering". 

Maybe they should cahneg the anme of the Facebook site to "fukwitsrus" ?

[VocalNeal]

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

Why people laugh at us? Say the contractors, we were told to lay new concrete.

That is exactly what we did, nobody said avoid the hydrant.????

Except they made a special effort for the hydrant? Not to mention the idiot contractor who got the hydrant elevation wrong. 

Too many wrongs don't make anyone right.

[canopus1969]

And people question if this is a 3rd World Country   ????

[RichardColeman]

In all fairness, maybe it was put in right but the sand beneath it shrank when the watery concrete was added

[RubbaJohnny]

2 hours ago, HOAX said:

Looking at the picture, the fire hydrant isn't the only "engineering" flaw. In addition to the Pisa poles in the middle of the walking path, you already know the ground preparation is horrible and the cement blocks is of the lowest quality possible. Within a month or two people will already be tripping all over the wavy, uneven, cracked and loose blocks.

Should it be flagged ? ???? 

[hotchilli]

Passed the final inspection then... 

[rwill]

They were probably told they were not getting paid until the job was completed.

[brianthainess]

Very dangerous for people riding their M/C on the footpath, what were they thinking no consideration there should be a law against it.  

[smccolley]

I don't believe that is thailand. There are no food carts everywhere and win drivers on the sidewalk...

[rickb]

Actually, the water wasn't ready to be hooked up to the hydrant and they didn't want the hydrant to be stolen.  So they "temporarily" encased it in concrete.  Thai workers are always thinking ahead!

 

 

[KhaoYai]

On 2/5/2020 at 6:20 AM, CGW said:

Credit where it is due! apart from the small matter of a buried hydrant which probably has no water feed, the footpath is the "best" I have ever seen in Thailand!

Look a little closer. Yes its faily level and nearly straight but they've either bedded those flags on concrete or pointed them with very wet cement the joints look awful and wil look worse when they go white - its all over the flags. If I had to bet I'd say they're laid on concrete. Still, that's probably the best way for them - judging by the state of some of the footpaths.

[MaxYakov]

Oh, they're so quick to criticize. I don't see anything unusual in the image. 

Edited February 12, 2020 by MaxYakov