On 7 May 2007 00:32:29 -0700, none in this message from
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at Bangkok:
wrote/and/or quoted:
>Tourists lose valuables in scanner scam at airport
>
>BANGKOK: -- There have been numerous reports of theft at Suvarnabhumi
>Airport, police say, including at least two from tourists who say
>their valuables disappeared while they were being scanned.
>
>German tourist Dr Richard Chrobop, 60, said his 2.5-karat diamond
>ring, worth about Bt500,000, disappeared while going through a scanner
>at the airport when he was flying back to Germany on April 24.
>
>Police also received a complaint yesterday from a Japanese tourist who
>said 800 euros (Bt 35,400) in cash disappeared from his bag while it
>was being scanned at the airport.
>
>Photographs retrieved from the scanning machine show that Chrobop's
>diamond ring disappeared after it entered the machine, said an airport
>official who asked not to be named.
>
>Piyarat Donbandit, a relative of the doctor, filed a complaint with
>Rachadheva Police on his behalf.
>
>Piyarat said Chrobop put a jacket and other possessions, including the
>ring, into a basket to pass through the scanning machine at the
>departure exit. The ring was gone when the basket came out from the
>other side, Piyarat said.
>
>Airport staff refused the doctor's request to meet police but gave him
>a compensation claim form and rushed him to his plane, Piyarat said.
>
>The airport official said photographs from the scanner showed that the
>ring was in the basket as it passed through the scanner.
>
>The official declined, however, to comment further, saying it might
>affect the reputation of Airports of Thailand.
>
>Piyarat said he had written to airport officials asking to check the
>scanner's photographic record but was provided with unclear CCTV
>pictures taken from one angle. He was told that there was only one
>camera in the area.
>
>Lt-Colonel Sitthichai Champa-ngam, an investigator at Rachadheva
>Police Station, said there had been numerous complaints about
>possessions lost at the airport.
>
>It has been difficult to investigate the claims because the airport
>does not cooperate, Sitthichai said. To examine CCTV records at the
>airport, police have to send official letters asking for permission
>from the airport.
>
>"I believe someone took the ring while it was passing through the
>machine," Sitthichai said.
>>>it is amazing
>>>the little man/./sheman must be hiding in the tunnel of the scanner to pick out the said items and this "thieft" is not noticed by the online-realtime scanner camera?
>>> could it be a 4 year old humanoid non radio opaqued doing this job?
>>> this shylock must be caught at all cost to save bangcock face
>
>It is difficult to believe there is only one CCTV in the area, he
>said.
>
>"[Theft by airport staff] is not good for image of the country," he
>added.
>
>--The Nation 2007-05-07 |