Look Out- Fast Train Coming!!!

[Suzy]

This is a video that someone has put on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=154748754590046) and I couldn't resist sharing it here.
I knew they were pressed for room in Bangkok, but this is ridiculous! :eyepop:

Knowing me :rolleyes: I would just fumble in my handbag trying to get the money out to pay for those bananans and then *splat*. :face:
Sometimes, it's just not worth it to eat healthy. :shrug: :violin:

[erick]

:eyepop: Now where to start for the OH&S assessment? :question:

[astroron]

Suzy,that video is amazing:eyepop:
It seems that split second timing is required otherwise you would have a terrible mess:help:
Meat with your fruit and veggies:ashamed:

[Omaroo]

Spoken like a true bureaucrat... ;) LOL! It's what makes modern Australia great!

Excellent find Suzy. Great to see other people living differently to us. It'd be boring if we were all the same. :)

[erick]

And I'd want to examine their public liability insurance policies before I shopped there! :P

[michaellxv]

Would you like some dressing on your salad sir?
Maybe a nice splash of diesel.

[Kal]

Quite amazing to compare standards from other parts of the world :) Great find Suzy!

[renormalised]

Convenience shopping....grab a bite to eat then catch the train home. All in the one convenient place!!!!:):P:P

[AdrianF]

I thought going to the supermarket here was bad enough.

Adrian

[gary]

Hi Suzy,

Thanks for the link to the video.

This is quite a famous train and it's the Maeklong Market in Bangkok, not in
Hong Kong. It runs through the market eight times a day, every day of the week.

Amazing, isn't it?

You can read more about it here -
http://blog.hotelclub.com/maeklong-market-maeklong-railway/

Recently, "Red Nine" (Evan) posted this thread about a beautiful video of
the aurora shot in Noway by photographer Terje Sorgjerd -
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=73483

I took the time to look at some of Terje's other videos and I noted he had
one here on the Maeklong Market train which is beautifully and professionally
shot. I wholeheartedly recommend watching it -
http://vimeo.com/17318076

[Suzy]

Wow! Gary.
I read the link (plus watched the video on that link) on the market place and watched both the videos given on your second link (Aurora and the market place). This man takes incredible films :eyepop: in beautiful HD quality. That Aurora one is so breathtaking!

The video footage on your first link to read actually shows that train running between people's houses!! :eyepop: What tha? :eyepop:

The market place and all these other places were there first, so why, why, why did they plant a train track right through it all, just makes no sense :shrug:. I guess they knew what they were doing though :screwy:, who am I to judge I suppose ... I'm no town planner. :rolleyes: :lol:

[renormalised]

I'd say, Suzy, the line was there first and they built the shanties around it later on:)

[richardda1st]

That's incredible.:eyepop::eyepop::eyepop:

[Jen]

:eyepop: yikes who would want to buy that food after a train has spread all its dust and gunk all over it yuck :confused2:

[hotspur]

What can you say!:eyepop:mit quite extraordinary=but seems quite normal to the people there!

The people that live there and set up those markets,must have a great sense of diamentional spacial awareness,to be able to set up produce on stalls so it does not get caught up under the train!,and timing -note how the shade covers come back over as the train has gone-reminds me of something the author George MacDonald Fraser would put in his books or movie scripts,(he wrote the script for the 1983 'Octopussy' movie)

Great find!!!!

[scopemankit]

Just shows you haw clean those trains must be!!!

[Matt Wastell]

I hope the train has good plumbing in the toilet!

[Starman73]

Hi All,

Having been to Bangkok an other parts of Thailand, the people there live an entirely different way of life. I went to some markets over there where all of the stall owners have a TV set up, some permanently mounted to watch their daily soaps. At the markets on the street in Bangkok, where they are set up and pulled down completly each day, there were TV set up by the stall owners. Walking around the streets of Bangkok don't look up. You will see the way the electricity cables have been laid down or strung up. Look at a bowl of spagetti and you will have some idea of what it looks like. I took a photo of some of it and my cousin, an electrician was absolutly amamzed that they were able to sort it out to fix faults.

Don't get me wrong though, Thailand is a lovely place, I enjoyed it there.

Just had to add my little bit.

Paul.

[Ric]

Blimey that's awesome.

[ballaratdragons]

I like the bit where all the Monkeys run out to see the train and get food scraps!

Cool!

[Analog6]

Roflol!

They'd be in deep doo doo if there was sudden unannounced timetable change.

[Liz]

:lol::lol: