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This topic of news is about extorting
money out of tourists, go to jail. Vendor sells tourist flowers, sticks
something else in tourist's hand, later vendor demands more money, threatens, surrounds
tourist, until they pay.
Keng Santhanabool and three companions
sold three garlands to a woman at 90 baht each, or 270 baht in total. The four
men followed the woman when she went to light the candles and handed her 18
cigars. She took them and offered them to the statue. As she was about the
leave, the four men demanded she pay another 360 baht for the cigars. She at
first refused, as she thought that the cigars were included in the price paid
at the beginning. The four men surrounded and heckled her, so she finally
decided to pay the money -- and then called the police to arrest them. At the
police station, the men offered to pay 10,000 baht compensation, but the woman
declined to accept the money and took the case to court.
I think, in Thailand has many tourists
which they come to Thailand because for work or for travelling so Thai people
should receive visitors by kindness.
Vocabulary
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Pronounce
|
Meaning
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extort
|
ex • tort
/ ɪkstɔrt /
verb
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to make sb give you sth by threatening
them
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tourist
|
tour • ist
/ tɔrɪst /
noun
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a person who is travelling or visiting
a place for pleasure
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refuse
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re • fuse
/ rɪfjuz /
verb
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to say that you will not do sth that
sb has asked you to do
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heckle
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heckle
/ hekl /
verb
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(sb) to interrupt a speaker at a
public meeting by shouting out questions or rude remarks
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