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That is amazing. And with metal handrails!

Maybe they figured people needed more excitement on their walk to work. Probably the big boulder that rolls out and chases you across the walkway Indiana Jones style was too much for the budget.

Those are load bearing wires.

It looks like the wires going *through* the steps are just telecom - wouldn't kill anyone. However on the opposite end of the bridge, right at head level, those ARE high voltage lines.

Civil Engineering for Population Control ?

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It's amazing the thought process here. They had to take those wires down, drill two holes through the stairs, and then run them though. Wouldn't it have been easier just to guide the wires around the structure when they were putting them back up?

DUBLYUTIEF

It looks like the just poured the cement around them.

Actually, it's worse... When they show you the underneath of that area, you can see where they placed a piece of conduit in the concrete before pouring.

I get the feeling the wires were supposed to be moved but for some reason -most likely bureaucracy and/or corruption- they didn't, and the bridge builder went ahead anyway, probably expecting the wires to be moved later (if they even gave a shit).

Does anybody know where this is? What flags are those?

I doubt that.
It looks like they built the forms around the wires, then poured the concrete around those... No effort went into the making of this overpass.

Thailand im pretty sure.

Yes, Thailand. But they have a lot to worry about over there these days :
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27517591

That right there wins the golden potato award for laziness.

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Sift 'o the Week.

Yay!

My first time for SOTW.


I'd like to thank the academy, my mom and dad, and all the lazy non-unionized, cement layers living under military dictatorships the world over!

It's the thin metal wires up high that you need to worry about. The thick ones, even at head level on the opposite end are still just phone lines. But, climb up and grab one of those thin upper wires, and you're bacon.

I'm very late to this, but...

It is definitely Thailand. Every city is a rat's nest of electrical cables, telephone lines etc. just like that. Construction is generally pretty haphazard, and public safety is rather low on the checklist...

I've lived in Thailand for the past 8 years, and speak Thai well enough to give a translation of the beginning of the video, which is pretty funny:
Guy 1: (pointing) Scary, isn't it?
Guy 2: (camera) Jeez, what asshole set this up?

That's a pretty close translation. The guy with the camera refers to the people responsible as "heeah", which literally means "monitor lizard" but is used colloquially as a slur somewhere between "asshole" or "mother f*cker". Thai uses animal words like that as insults in several other instances also, with a softer example being "kwai" which literally means "(water) buffalo", but colloquially is like calling someone a "stubborn dumbass". Sorta like "jackass" in English, but a bit more offensive.