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Old 08-12-2009, 12:46 AM   #1
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Aug 12, 2009: Farmer's Market

Farmer's markets are wonderful. All those fruits, veggies, and sometimes flowers, honey or dairy, fresh from the farm.

This one is in Thailand, Samut Songkhram province, but can you spot a difference?



Railroad tracks right down the middle make a good defined path for shoppers...
and the eight express trains a day that use these tracks.

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Every day in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, a unique market is held whose vendors need feet as quick as their minds. Why? Because much of the market is located directly on a set of operational railway tracks. Eight times daily, a train runs through without care for stopping, sending vendors and visitors to action stations before business as usual resumes.
That must keep everybody on their toes... or lose them.

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Old 08-12-2009, 02:27 AM   #2
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OH CRAP HERE COMES THE TRAIN!!!!




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Old 08-12-2009, 06:20 AM   #3
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Grilled veggies, anyone??
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Old 08-12-2009, 06:46 AM   #4
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If I was there, some of them veggies would be put on the rails, just before the train comes.
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Old 08-12-2009, 06:48 AM   #5
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This would never work in the lawsuit-happy U.S.A.
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Old 08-12-2009, 07:29 AM   #6
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No, some drunken dumbass would stand in front of the train and then sue somebody while they scramble to find their missing body parts.
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Old 08-12-2009, 07:29 AM   #7
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There's a section in one of Michael Palin's travel documentaries that reminds me of this a little. He's travelling between Chile and Bolivia, and the train is running very, very late.

When they get to La Paz, they have to arrange for cars and people to be moved off the track - the trains are so notoriously bad that the railway line is not treated with any kind of concern, it's just part of the street.

Not quite as dangerous as here of course!
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Old 08-12-2009, 08:41 AM   #8
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Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.
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Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.
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Old 08-12-2009, 10:36 AM   #10
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Finally a way to "train" your vegetables.
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Old 08-12-2009, 11:36 AM   #11
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Some of those veggies can be tough, so remember to choo-choo your food.
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Old 08-12-2009, 02:25 PM   #12
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Wouldn't that make all of the veggies.......squash?
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Old 08-12-2009, 03:09 PM   #13
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Finally a way to "train" your vegetables.
Pulling a train on a vegetable is the one of the most heinous things I can imagine. (And I have one helluva imagination!!)

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Some of those veggies can be tough, so remember to choo-choo your food.
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Old 08-12-2009, 05:14 PM   #14
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They have their market here for the benefit of tourists who like to come and take photos of their market. Otherwise, why wouldn't they just move to one side or the other and get off the freakin' tracks?!?
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Wouldn't that make all of the veggies.......squash?
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