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Authorities scrambled Wednesday to airlift condoms and other emergency health supplies to victims of Thailand's worst floods in decades to prevent a feared surge in unplanned pregnancies.
Photo by Sunthorn Pongpao
Five helicopters began transporting medicine and other provisions from the Public Health Ministry in Bangkok to seven locations in the central province of Lop Buri, which has been severely inundated.
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Discussion 9 : 05/10/2011 at 09:15 PM9
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RE: D1...they should have used one of those RUBBER blimps to air lift them up there.
Discussion 8 : 05/10/2011 at 09:12 PM8
Geffo...The government may ask you for some hot air to help blow them up.....they thought they were party balloons for the water festival! You should be happy....there is a red born every minute now...next year it may be 2 or 3 a minute..
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Discussion 7 : 05/10/2011 at 08:30 PM7
This should go well with the home-made water bed invented by a certain villager living in a flooded area!
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Discussion 6 : 05/10/2011 at 08:04 PM6
Wow one more reason for the world to laugh at Thailand .I cant believe stories like this happen and people sue each other for defamation .
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Discussion 5 : 05/10/2011 at 07:53 PM5
What is that Muppet in the pink shirt doing standing in dirty water up above his knees when he could just as easy give his talk up on the other side of that embankment where it is not deep looking at the car in the background? If he is part of the health ministry, well that photo explains where the plan for the condoms came from. TIT.
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Discussion 4 : 05/10/2011 at 06:14 PM4
To prevent a baby boom we added condoms too,” Really,folks, you do know you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. How will you ensure the grateful recipients will use their quota-come to think of it - how will you work out each houses quota ?
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Discussion 3 : 05/10/2011 at 05:21 PM3
See, the Thai government DOES care. Homes washed away, businesses ruined, 50,000 displaced and 237 dead but the government comes through with (you guessed it) free condom distribution to those devastated yet still a little ‘randy’. Aside from the obvious that condom use will help with birth control thereby lowering the number of future deaths in the same area that will certainly flood again, they can also be inflated and used as water-wings keeping people afloat. After the predictable yearly flood after flood and the inability to implement any preventative measures and the ill-prepared and delayed response, at least now the government is using condoms before they ‘give it’ to the people again.
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Discussion 2 : 05/10/2011 at 04:45 PM2
Thai people are always a happy nation even encountering a lot of disasters and conflicts in the country!
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Discussion 1 : 05/10/2011 at 04:28 PM1
It’s always good to see that the authorities have their priorities right. It is especially important to notice they had to airlift the condoms. Was the expire date just hours away? Did all the superstores in the affected areas run out of condoms? I am sure the international press will pick up this story probably with the headline Amazing Thailand!
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