Booty haul
On November 21, a customs officer examines part of a huge haul of fake and untaxed products worth at least 100 million baht seized from two trucks in Bangkok.
Beast feast
Elephants pig out
A buffet for 264 elephants was organised in downtown Surin on November 20 as part of the province’s annual elephant festival.
The festival’s tables had 67 tonnes of sugar cane, water melons, corn, yam beans and pineapples, stretching over 400 metres.
The annual elephant buffet was introduced in Surin in 2000. Guinness World Records recognised the 2003 feast as the largest-ever elephant buffet, when 269 elephants ate 50 tonnes of food.
Taxi tax
Fake cop extorts money
A group of Bangkok motorcycle taxi drivers on November 19 asked police to investigate a man claiming to be a Crime Suppression Division (CSD) officer after he allegedly extorted money from them.
About 10 drivers from a Ratchadaphisek queue filed a complaint with the CSD against Putthiset Sroisuwan, 36, for alleged extortion.
One of the complainants claimed that he and other drivers were victimised by Putthiset, who allegedly collected a total of 3,950 baht from each of them over a fixed period.
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Caring cops
Police check resident’s health
Police General Hospital provided a free health check. It happened at Khlong Toey district in Bangkok on November 22. The programme aims to make relations between police and residents stronger.
Vocabulary
- sugar cane (n): a tropical plant with tall stems from which sugar is made
extort (v): to make somebody give you something by threatening them
