Accidents waiting to happen

[Chirimoya]

This is like a sort of pre-Darwin award for accidents waiting to happen, as seen on the streets of Santo Domingo.

I have three nominations:

1. Fireworks shop just across the road from a petrol station - if it goes up it takes our neighbourhood with it and sends the Chirimoya family into orbit.

2. Planta right next to propane gas tank, as seen outside a residential building in the city.

3. The seasonal practice of placing wire wool scourers into bottles and setting them alight, resulting in a most satisfying BOOM. Apparently popular amongst teenagers too young to buy real fireworks.

Anyone care to add theirs?

[Lambada]

Overground diesel storage tank (to refuel busses) strategically placed at base of tall tree behind our house............lightening hits tree & WHOOOOSH! Its been there 6 months so not 'seasonal' but in keeping with conflagration scenario above!

[simpson Homer]

Thing in DR work like this:

1 Not body care about danger untill some one is killed by accident.

2 The word prevention means = "I will take care of it later"

Is like people living close by the river, Dominican gov. never take care about moving those families to a safety place.Dominican Gov. wait untill the hurricans and flood, street are never fixed untill the streets doesn't space for more "bathtub"

Dominican Gov. will take care when the fireworks when something happen.

It's sad that people have to live with that.

PS: Hey that's my personal opinion!!!!

[Gringo]

Live wires laying on the street and then the rain comes you or a family member are walking by step in a puddle of water and its all over.

Gringo

[Ken]

What worries me when we are in Santo Domingo is walking back to the hotel from the restaurant where we had supper. There are a number of places along the route where the sidewalk has been broken open, so that if you stepped in one of those holes you, or at least part of you, would drop down about 3 feet. During one of the blackouts, each step may be your last.

These are not new pits in the sidewalk. They have been there for years.

[Pib]

Homer, you're opionion is ruining our humor.


So, nobody is going to mention the guy in the motorcicle holding a 100-lb propane tank, like a smaller version of a car-bomb?

[Chirimoya]

Originally Posted by Ken

What worries me when we are in Santo Domingo is walking back to the hotel from the restaurant where we had supper. There are a number of places along the route where the sidewalk has been broken open, so that if you stepped in one of those holes you, or at least part of you, would drop down about 3 feet. During one of the blackouts, each step may be your last.

These are not new pits in the sidewalk. They have been there for years.

A friend of a friend (yeah right) actually fell into one of them on a rainy night in Gazcue.

[Kaizen68]

Originally Posted by Chirimoya

This is like a sort of pre-Darwin award for accidents waiting to happen, as seen on the streets of Santo Domingo.

I have three nominations:

1. Fireworks shop just across the road from a petrol station - if it goes up it takes our neighbourhood with it and sends the Chirimoya family into orbit.

2. Planta right next to propane gas tank, as seen outside a residential building in the city.

3. The seasonal practice of placing wire wool scourers into bottles and setting them alight, resulting in a most satisfying BOOM. Apparently popular amongst teenagers too young to buy real fireworks.

Anyone care to add theirs?

"LA BAZOOKA"
take 3 or 4 aluminum cans remove lids on all except the last one, tape 'em together with electrical tape. make a hole in the center with a nail. pour kerosene shake and light a match to it...! (BOOM..!)

M80s shot from a slingshot..!

[juanita]

The old construction site on Lopez de Vega and Kennedy. The side walls have felt down many times with the rain leaving very small space between the road and the hole. Now the cement protection blocks are sitting right on the edge where cars pass. I always walk on the other side of the road, scared that part of the street will fall in the hole! You’ll see, they won’t do anything till some 10 cars fall at the bottom of the hole!!

[Chirimoya]

Wow, pretty good going. We've barely even touched on the traffic side of things.

Trucks with bald, splitting tyres, newborns slung under the passenger's arm on multiple passenger pasolas and motoconchos, luxury car drivers who are too poor* to afford seatbelts let alone child seats for their small children, car drivers with tiny babies perched on their knees...

*in the braincell department