The Walk of Life

Ah! Thailand, known as the Land Of A Thousand Smiles and as far as I can remember, visiting Thailand was always fun and enjoyable! I love their pristine beaches at their remote Islands of Koh Samui, Pipi etc but that was about 20 years ago!

Today, traveling to Thailand can be a scary life experience especially at the Bangkok International Airport! Well thus far, the stories were mostly from Europeans and you can read the details HERE!

What could have happen to you as a tourist is that, there seems to be a scam going round at the Bangkok International Airport where innocent tourists were accused of shop-lifting at the Duty Free Shops there! They could only be released after paying a hefty sum something to the tune of 8000 British Pounds!!!! Yes, you read right it is Eight Thousand British Pounds! LOL!

I guess like most people we have the tendency to touch things and take a closer look at them and placed them back without buying. This is caught on CCTV and the Airport Securities would use this portion of tape to indicate that you did handled the displayed products.

What came as really scary was that they took you to some security room for further interrogation with threats of referring you to the Police. Meantime you would have miss your flight and facing a possible jail term for shop-lifting! Of course all these can be settled by paying an enormous amount of money but before you pay up, you would be kept in a dingy cell!

You can read the terrible ordeal of this British couple Mr. Ingram and Miss Xi HERE! It seem quite a few Danish tourist experienced the same harrowing experience! The advice given is that not to touch anything unless you are buying the item and can show receipt of payment!