The alcohol sales will be booming this week..... People are not stupid, and than the cultural and traditional performances and activities...what is special about it as a whole year you can experience them.. at weddings, ordinations, funerals, markets and fairs, all the same... food, miss elections, too loud music and singing of persons who better could shut their mouth. And safety??? people will drink as they always do .. forbidding selling is not prevent that as people will enough at home and in their hotels.... The only thing that is affected is the tourist industry, as there is no need for this kind of measure if the police would do their job not only with Songkran but 365 days a year with checkpoints and check all drivers if have been drinking. Than maybe it would be safer.