9/23: Pakistan transportation

Undertoad · 09-23-2001, 10:01 AM

This is from Pakistan but it's not a news image; this comes directly from friends of Katkeeper. There have been similar images here but it's still interesting; in a system where not everything is available, you have to be innovative just to get things done.

leif · 09-23-2001, 04:42 PM

Imagine standing a few feet further back, and seeing this scene with some western photgrapher eagerly taking a picture before getting back in his Jeep or whatever to drive back to his hotel room.

Now that would be a slightly more amusing picture! ;-)

Katkeeper · 09-24-2001, 06:26 AM

I have to add that I sent Tony this picture before the recent focus on this part of the world. It is even more interesting now...

russotto · 09-24-2001, 10:20 AM

I just saw a PBS show about the Sahara desert which had some similar images. Only there, the truck people are the high-tech rich ones. The people being profiled were using hundreds of camels and their feet instead.

(besides, there may be hundreds of them to a truck, but it _IS_ a Mercedes...)

jaguar · 09-26-2001, 05:11 AM

I can imagien, pre disaster Merc turning this into some kind of ad. The mind boggles. By some kind of fluke if have hte same pick i leached off a freind of mine about a week ago.

Katkeeper · 09-26-2001, 08:04 PM

I can't help wondering what it must smell like - sitting amongst all those people with all there belongings...

09-23-2001, 10:01 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	9/23: Pakistan transportation This is from Pakistan but it's not a news image; this comes directly from friends of Katkeeper. There have been similar images here but it's still interesting; in a system where not everything is available, you have to be innovative just to get things done.

09-26-2001, 05:11 AM	#5
jaguar whig Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 5,075	I can imagien, pre disaster Merc turning this into some kind of ad. The mind boggles. By some kind of fluke if have hte same pick i leached off a freind of mine about a week ago. __________________ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Twain

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09-23-2001, 04:42 PM	#2
leif Confounded Conjuror Join Date: May 2001 Location: N. California Posts: 33	Imagine standing a few feet further back, and seeing this scene with some western photgrapher eagerly taking a picture before getting back in his Jeep or whatever to drive back to his hotel room. Now that would be a slightly more amusing picture! ;-)

09-24-2001, 06:26 AM	#3
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	I have to add that I sent Tony this picture before the recent focus on this part of the world. It is even more interesting now...

09-24-2001, 10:20 AM	#4
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	I just saw a PBS show about the Sahara desert which had some similar images. Only there, the truck people are the high-tech rich ones. The people being profiled were using hundreds of camels and their feet instead. (besides, there may be hundreds of them to a truck, but it _IS_ a Mercedes...)

09-26-2001, 08:04 PM	#6
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	I can't help wondering what it must smell like - sitting amongst all those people with all there belongings...

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