Chinese tourists caught on camera removing sea stars at Coral Island

[snoop1130]

Chinese tourists caught on camera removing sea stars at Coral Island

By The Thaiger

 

 

An Asian tourist has been caught on camera showing a sea star on a beach at Coral Island.

 

Siriwan Kawprasert, a local on the island, has reported to The Thaiger that many Chinese tourists have bringing sea stars from the sea to the beach. Locals have warned them to put them back where they found them.

 

Khun Siriwan told The Thaiger that she saw tourists doing this almost every day at Coral Island off Phuket.  She is happy that many tourists are visiting the island but she also wants them to understand and care for the local marine life.

 

Full Story: https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/chinese-tourists-caught-on-camera-removing-sea-stars-at-coral-island

 

-- © Copyright The Thaiger 2019-01-25

[Mavideol]

colonization keeps going, they don't respect anything while traveling, doing that in their lawless  country it's ok as nobody cares. Have to say, the government there,  has banners all over, telling the people to behave properly and respect the hosting country when they travel, this is not a joke it's true they do, the problem as I see it, maybe majority of the people don't know how to read!!!!!

[Bernie622]

why blur the faces? they have wiped out every living creature in their country now they are moving to the next....I have always said Chinese are like the alien life forms in War of the Worlds...they invade, rape and pillage the resources and then move on to the next target. if it wasnt for the almighty baht and the fact they have money to spend we will put up with their ugly ways. 

[Topdoc]

Will they be given the same treatment as the two Russian tourists who were imprisoned for taking some coral?

[hansgruber]

47 minutes ago, Topdoc said:

Will they be given the same treatment as the two Russian tourists who were imprisoned for taking some coral?

Of course not. Thai authorities are scared of Chinese tourists abandoning Phuket. 

Treat these Chinese like that and social media and Chinese government pressure would have them freed within minutes. 

Chinese are human cockroaches. They are everywhere and you can't get rid of them. 

 

[Redline]

Everything will be gone soon, save your hat Chinese cash!

[BritManToo]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Chinese tourists have bringing sea stars from the sea to the beach.

What's a sea star?

[Katia]

7 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

What's a sea star?

Starfish.

[ChipButty]

2 hours ago, Topdoc said:

Will they be given the same treatment as the two Russian tourists who were imprisoned for taking some coral?

Couple of years ago a Farang got fined 100k Baht for only feeding the fish

[Oziex1]

2 hours ago, Topdoc said:

Will they be given the same treatment as the two Russian tourists who were imprisoned for taking some coral?

No, I believe the punishment is all the sticky rice and mango you can eat.

[HLover]

2 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

No, I believe the punishment is all the sticky rice and mango you can eat.

Perhaps forced to speak quietly and chew with their mouth closed and not complain about the food bill?

[NightSky]

Don't they dry them out and grind them up and use them as Ingredients for herbal aphrodisiac pills...

 

...they do now!

[Cereal]

And yet another group of confident Chinese swimmers. Reminds me of Koreans. They'd flock to the beach everyday in the summer wearing long pants and long-sleeved shirts with gigantic sunbonnets on their heads slathered with sunblock to the point that they looked like they were wearing clown makeup sporting the obligatory lifejacket, plop down on the sand 10m from the water and get no nearer than that, except for those brave few who would wade in up to their ankles.

[Wallander4]

Maybe they got tired of eating noodle cup from the local 7/11

[yogavnture]

if they eat them the penis might grow?

[dunroaming]

On ‎1‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 11:08 AM, Mavideol said:

colonization keeps going, they don't respect anything while traveling, doing that in their lawless  country it's ok as nobody cares. Have to say, the government there,  has banners all over, telling the people to behave properly and respect the hosting country when they travel, this is not a joke it's true they do, the problem as I see it, maybe majority of the people don't know how to read!!!!!

True and many of the ordinary working class Chinese tend to be a pretty cold blooded lot.  Spent years travelling in China and they were never exactly hospitable to foreigners.  In smaller towns it was often really hard to find a hotel that would accept foreigners.  However the younger better educated Chinese are a different breed altogether.  They are very savvy, polite and far more westernised in their attitude.

 

Also Thailand needs to take some of the responsibility over the troublesome Chinese tourists.  It is their obsession with the tourists money that means they will turn a blind eye to the totally unacceptable behaviour.  That and the fact that many Thais, especially in the north of Thailand, are direct descendants of these Chinese citizens

[Ulic]

I am not going to worry about starfish. 

[MyFriend You]

13 hours ago, Respectthailand said:

Chinese tourists in terms of setting a bad example and poor behaviour are babes in the wood in comparison to brits.

Man o Man, are you clueless!??!  Open Your eyes, or better yet, get in the way of a hoard of Chinese tourists at the Sea Food Buffet on Pattaya........or anywhere for that matter.........Danger Danger Will Robinson.

[metisdead]

Some off topic trolling posts and replies have been removed. 

[eddie61]

On 1/26/2019 at 1:28 AM, Bernie622 said:

why blur the faces? they have wiped out every living creature in their country now they are moving to the next....I have always said Chinese are like the alien life forms in War of the Worlds...they invade, rape and pillage the resources and then move on to the next target. if it wasnt for the almighty baht and the fact they have money to spend we will put up with their ugly ways. 

The worlds Apex predators.....

[Wallander4]

Is it gonna be jail like the Russian woman that was feeding fish or nothing cause thais again suck a.. on Chinese ?

[White Christmas13]

On 1/26/2019 at 8:06 AM, hansgruber said:

Of course not. Thai authorities are scared of Chinese tourists abandoning Phuket. 

Treat these Chinese like that and social media and Chinese government pressure would have them freed within minutes. 

Chinese are human cockroaches. They are everywhere and you can't get rid of them. 

 

yeah we rather have more Farangs

[Johnnyngai]

Third world Chinese people visiting a third world country,

because it is much cheaper than visiting northern Europe.