Me parece que esta costumbre tambien la practica cierto webmaster de Ta Jose Bungalows Es que uno lleva aqui tantos años que todo se pega...Tailandia Mon Amour!.

Para los extranjeros,muchas veces,es dificil ponerle edad a una mujer tailandesa...Aqui os dejo esta tabla donde os podreis ilustrar...

Es facil...

The Bangkok Post ran a story many years ago where a poor farmer's wife from Esan was send to Bangkok to beg - she was placed in "strategic" locations in Bangkok by the mafia who runs the whole operation.
When she found out that she could make between 2000-3000 Baht a day she "quit" and tried to work for herself and was arrested within hours. The story told us how the police is paid of to let the mafia controlled begging go on after all there are huge amounts of money involved.

Nothing has changed since then nobody could sit in Bangkok and beg for hours a day without being detected or without the knowledge of the police.

La mujer de un agricultor pobre de Isan fue enviada (por la Mafia) a mendigar en las calles de Bangkok...sin problemas con la policia ejercio su "trabajo"...Pero cuando vió que al dia podia recaudar unos 2000-3000 baht se hizo ella misma un ERE y se puso a trabajar por su cuenta...solo duró unas horas trabajando como autonoma...la policia la detuvo...

Con la Mafia si puede trabajar pues ahi la poli controla los ingresos y se lleva la mordida-tajada

Tailandia...Donde los niños no pueden jugar a Policias y Ladrones...son la misma cosa...Same same pero diferento! 

Los que habeis estado en el aeropuerto nuevo de Bangkok habreis visto estas esculturas,hay 12...son yaks...demonios guardianes de los espiritus o una cosa asi.Son muy famosos los que estan en el Wat Pakeo.

Pues resulta que los van a cambiar de sitio porque se han dado cuenta que son de mala influencia para los Duty Free shops,han habido muchos follones en esos sitios,las ventas marchan mal y en vez de echarle la culpa al director de marketing le han colgado el San Benito a los pobres yaks

Los van a poner en el hall donde se factura el equipaje y os dan la tarjeta de embarque...Que me apostais que ahora vais a perder muchos vuelos??? ...Tailandia Mon Amour!!!!

SUVARNABHUMI

'Demons' to be relocated at airport
Published: 10/11/2009 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

Twelve "demon statues" at Suvarnabhumi airport believed to have brought bad luck to shopkeepers will be moved at a cost of one million baht.

 
One of 12 six-metre-tall ‘‘demon statues’’,known in Thai as yaksa, will be relocated to more prominent display locations at Suvarnabhumi airport.
The guardian spirit statues will be shifted from the inner zone of the passenger terminal to the check-in area to "improve morale" of people working at the airport.

Airports of Thailand Plc conducted a religious ceremony for the relocation of 12 yaksa in the passenger terminal last night.

Suvarnabhumi director Niran Thiranartsin said the sculptures were modelled on 12 statues at the Grand Palace.

They are regarded as exceptional works of art and are collectively worth 30 million baht but visitors rarely notice them in the inner passenger area of the terminal because the statues are placed in less visible corners and air passengers rushing to claim baggage or going to departure gates do not see them.

Mr Niran said the six-metre-tall statues will be more visible if they stand in the outer part of the passenger terminal where there are check-in rows.

Mr Niran admitted the decision to relocate the figures from the inner part of the passenger terminal had partly resulted from complaints from staff working in the inner zone which has many shops.

The shopkeepers are blaming the "demon statues" for the problems they have faced at the airport, which was seized late last year by demonstrators and supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy.

An AoT source said the airport had planned to move the statues to stand guard at the gates of the terminal but a Brahmin had warned the statues should not be placed there because they were the models of those at the Grand Palace and represented highly ranked demons.

The AoT decided to move the statues to face a showcase of the Buddha's relics at Gate 5 on the fourth floor.

The relocation of the statues is set between 1am and 5am every night to minimise impact on passenger traffic.