Exactly- i saw the africans arriving in the 90s staying around the back hualampng staion . I talked to a couple of them - they were there to get in early on fraud - gold , etc and then fast moved into the drug trade - but a pickpocket is still a thief- obviously he wanted to work an area where there would be drug dealers / tourists carrying cash - criminals need clearing out all of sukhumvit s****hole foreign ghetto now