Seat belts are never worn. Car seats for children? Nope. If we ever see a child strapped in, we know that they must be expats. It's frightening really.
We have expat friends in construction here and one guy told us that 7 people had been killed on the job site before his European company took over the high-rise project.
I've previously mentioned the uncovered manholes. I met a lady from Alaska who was walking a friend's small dog at dusk when the poor thing fell all the way down a manhole. She had the dog on a retractable leash, so she just reeled it back in. The dog was fine, but ouch!
And recently, there was supposed to be routine maintenance on our apartment building's power grid. Six hours later, we were still without electricity, so the dogs and I scrambled down 15 flights of stairs (and then back up)....in the pitch black. Apparently, our brand-spankin' new building was constructed without emergency lights in the stairwells. Should be fun and not dangerous at all during a fire.
Here's a few pictures to help illustrate my point:
Notice the man crouched at the top of this rickety scaffolding.
A few seconds after we passed this ladder, it came crashing down.
Self-explanatory picture.
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