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BKK Post (13-10-99)Last to disappea



Subject: BKK Post (13-10-99)Last to disappear is the smile

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<font size=5><b>Last to disappear is the smile<br>
C</font></b><font size=3>ongratulations to Ching Kobsuk for a wonderful
summary of the Great Burmese Embassy Siege (Postbag, Oct 9).<br>
Most of us have known for a long time that the police here are corrupt,
incompetent and too often criminal, but who would have guessed they were
creative enough to invent the Briefcase Trick? Where else could you watch
the authorities, faced with the crime of the decade, returning evidence
the perpetrators forgot?Whenever Amazing Thailand Year ends, let's look
to Lewis Carroll for the new slogan: Curiouser and Curiouser Thailand.
Alice might get murdered in a gypsy cab or shot at the airport by a
Tourist Police officer, but the White Rabbit and all his friends will be
very much at home.<br>
<b>David Knapp<br>
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