The recent arrest of a British couple at Bangkok’s Cobra Snake Airport has reached the ears of the BBC who has issued a warning to travellers about the dangers of being scammed at Thailand’s largest airport. The couple had been arrested on charges that they had stolen a wallet from the notorious King Power Duty-Free. Security guards never found the purloined wallet. I have seen CCTV showing the woman suspiciously slipping an object into her pocketbook.
My aunt Gloria was a non-repentant kleptomaniac. She stole everything. Packs of gum. Lipsticks. Gucci scarves. She had money. Gloria stole because she liked to steal,. Her husband was a judge. I never heard of her getting caught. For years my friends used to shoplift film at duty-free shops in the airports. No one ever seemed to be watching, but the eyes-in-the-sky are manned now and these cyber-detectives are hot on the trail of any suspicious behavior.
King Power’s technicians must have trained with the UK police or CIA for they have spotted many potential thieves and arrested them as a preemptive strike. I view Duty-Free as a rip[-off and avoid the shops in every airport. Various embassies are advising the same to their nationals about King Power.
Denmark warned its citizens to resist any urge to shop at Cobra Swamp Airport.
Don’t look. Don’t touch. Don’t go.
I suggest the same to all passengers incoming and outgoing.