Don’t Do ItBy Peter Lloyd
Pattaya Today (Thailand)
Cambodia is a world leader is unusual signage. Two of my favourite bill-boards in rural areas warn people not to electrocute fish, with a helpful illustration of Cambodians doing exactly that (just in case you didn’t know how, this helps), and another warns people not to catch fish with hand grenades or dynamite.
With the irony and good (or ill) timing which often accompanies writing this column, I took the accompanying photo in Cambodia outside a bar in Sihanouk-ville, as it seemed astonishing to me that a venue had to tell patrons not to bring hand grenades in with them. HAND GRENADES! Unfortunately, since I took this photo and decided to write about it, the whole issue took a turn for the serious when, in Thailand recently, a teenage cretin actually took an M-26 hand grenade to a temple party in Isaan and hurled it into a group of his rivals, killing seven people and wounding 100, who were happily dancing at the time. Proving that sometimes maybe you really do need these signs.
With the irony and good (or ill) timing which often accompanies writing this column, I took the accompanying photo in Cambodia outside a bar in Sihanouk-ville, as it seemed astonishing to me that a venue had to tell patrons not to bring hand grenades in with them. HAND GRENADES! Unfortunately, since I took this photo and decided to write about it, the whole issue took a turn for the serious when, in Thailand recently, a teenage cretin actually took an M-26 hand grenade to a temple party in Isaan and hurled it into a group of his rivals, killing seven people and wounding 100, who were happily dancing at the time. Proving that sometimes maybe you really do need these signs.
1 comment:
What's the f#c*? Is Peter Lloy better than everybody else? You visit countries to insult the people there? There are plenty of stupid signs in the west.
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