Continuing the discussion from Wack Things in Taiwan 2022 - #3118 by rooftopclown [yn0hqnhekm1z]

Cow gets loose and somehow gets on the highway, causes multi-car accident on highway, one person injured. Owner, when found, will be fined between 300 and 600 NT… [image] SUV hits cow on Taiwan's national highway, 1 injured | Taiwan News |... Cattle owner faces fine of NT$300 (US$9.90)…

I’m in no wise a construction expert, least of all from my vantage here, scowling out of a window, so ultimately I’m sure that they do know what they’re doing … tho’ I can’t vouch for on-site safety standards in Taiwan. But it does seem, as a poster above suggested, that they’re trying to do the job…

Is there a deadline? If there’s no deadline and they just want the structure gone, they might have elected to do it cheap. Otherwise time is money. But it’s not safe to just demolish a building with 2 guys with jackhammers. Who’s going to call for help should the structure collapse for whatever rea…

I had MOS Burger for the first time in ages. Has it got shitter, or has it always been shit and I just forgot? Soggiest burger I have ever had. If I squeezed it, water would have come out.

[image] The_Ghost: I had MOS Burger for the first time in ages. Has it got shitter, or has it always been shit and I just forgot? MOS Burger has been on a long downhill slide for years. Dirtier restaurants, longer waits, half-assed preparation. It used to be awesome.

[image] lunlan: Cow gets loose and somehow gets on the highway, causes multi-car accident on highway, one person injured. Owner, when found, will be fined between 300 and 600 NT… SUV hits cow on highway in southern Taiwan, 1 injured | Taiwan News | 2023-04-11 18:08:00 Shouldn’t the owner be…

I imagine those who are affected will file a civil lawsuit about it, this is just the traffic fine. Civil judgment often far exceed criminal or administrative penalties.

It’s truly terrible. And slow as hell service too. Amazing how popular they still are, not cheap compared to local offerings either.

As regards a deadline … I asked the landlord today if she knows anything about the construction project or whether she has a vague notion of when it’s meant to stop (the single-storey lean-to structure they demolished was attached to my building so I figure she might have been given some information…

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