Praise from Saudi tourists for Thailand's tourist police after lost bag is located

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Rath

 

The deputy of the tourist police in his capacity as spokesman, Pol Maj-Gen Apichart Suribunya told the press how his men at Suvarnabhumi Airport had swung into action to held some Saudi tourists.

 

It was a far cry from the days when Thailand's name was mud with Saudis following the infamous "Blue Diamond" affair.

 

Now it was all smiles and thumbs up from tourist Algarz Rehub Saleh A and her friends who were reunited with their bag containing important items.

 

Picture: Siam Rath

 

It had gone missing in a taxi ride between the airport and the tourists' hotel and the police managed to trace the driver.

 

Ms Algarz said of the authorities:

 

"The staff is very kind and professional - we are very thankful - Bangkok is very lucky to have such an incredible and friendly team we will visit again because of them.

 

"They are the BEST".

 

Apichart called the feedback most welcome and wonderful and stressed his commitment and that of the tourist police to welcome tourists from all over the world, reported Siam Rath. 

 

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[JoePai]

Should the Saudi girls be wearing the funny sheets to cover themselves ?

[Excel]

1 minute ago, JoePai said:

Should the Saudi girls be wearing the funny sheets to cover themselves ?

That's what I thought. 

[Andrew Dwyer]

21 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Should the Saudi girls be wearing the funny sheets to cover themselves ?

You have never been on a plane leaving Saudi?

Once the pilot announcement that they are out of Saudi airspace it’s a rush for the toilets to ditch the sheets and get out the western clothing .

[steven100]

40 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand's name was mud with Saudis following the infamous "Blue Diamond" affair.

and probably still is with many educated Saudi's .....  

 

as for the bag  ....  I'd be checking the contents asap .... TIT 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 18, 2022 by steven100

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed. 

[sqwakvfr]

6 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

You have never been on a plane leaving Saudi?

Once the pilot announcement that they are out of Saudi airspace it’s a rush for the toilets to ditch the sheets and get out the western clothing .

As long it is not a Saudi based airline then the Beer and Wine can flow and I mean flow.  I was on flights where as soon as the plane is in international airspace the men change into t-shirts, jeans and start drinking.  On a five hour flight to BKK at best I would have two beers for some of my fellow Arab Passengers two beers was just a warm up.  Before the pandemic some Middle East carriers had 3 flight a day to BKK.  The ‘good old days” of flights from the Middle East might be back? 

[JoePai]

39 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

You have never been on a plane leaving Saudi?

Once the pilot announcement that they are out of Saudi airspace it’s a rush for the toilets to ditch the sheets and get out the western clothing .

Now that I find funny

[ezzra]

Praised for the Saudi government who now allowed Israeli airlines fly over Saudi airspace thus shaving hours of flight time to destinations in the far east, just thought i mentioned it...

[nikmar]

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

You have never been on a plane leaving Saudi?

Once the pilot announcement that they are out of Saudi airspace it’s a rush for the toilets to ditch the sheets and get out the western clothing .

and to bring the drinks trolley around!!

[jacko45k]

I too am intrigued by young Saudi women apparently traveling alone... never used to be seen and they  even had to seek permission to get on a plane (from a father or brother IIRC). Are things changing....?

[kcpattaya]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

"They are the BEST"

???? 
Agreed - they are very amusing.

[Laughing Gravy]

4 hours ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

You have never been on a plane leaving Saudi?

Once the pilot announcement that they are out of Saudi airspace it’s a rush for the toilets to ditch the sheets and get out the western clothing .

Yes that's true, plus the pressing of the bell (bing bong) so to order alcohol. Hypocrisy of the highest order.

[djayz]

Does this mean Saudis are constantly losing things or Thais are good at finding things of no real value? 

Edited July 18, 2022 by djayz

[musicscene]

This article begs two questions. The tourists having just arrived from the airport must be aware that they had baggage. How could they forget? The taxi driver should have noticed the luggage and returned to the hotel with it. Why wait until contacted by police?

[zzaa09]

Looks good on the diplomatic resume.

Cashing these types of goodwill instances for future doings. 

[garyk]

Don't want to get on the bad side of the Saudi's  , they will chop you up and send the body pieces out the back door.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, musicscene said:

The taxi driver should have noticed the luggage and returned to the hotel with it.

Would you ? Potentially drive 200km to give a bag back that a tourist had forgotten about ? 

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

"The staff is very kind and professional - we are very thankful - Bangkok is very lucky to have such an incredible and friendly team we will visit again because of them.

I'm filling up... BRB

[mikebell]

16 hours ago, musicscene said:

Why wait until contacted by police?

In case they didn't.  It's one of those tourist stories invented by TAT to justify their existence.  RTP are having a bad press period so out comes the feel good tales.

[brianthainess]

On 7/18/2022 at 8:20 AM, webfact said:

 

It had gone missing in a taxi ride between the airport and the tourists' hotel and the police managed to trace the driver.

It had gone missing ??? how strange a bag just goes missing yep I think it was lucky they 'managed' to find the driver.

[Nsp64]

This article looks like it was written by a 5year old.

Lots of over the top gushing praise. Really quite pathetic really.

[RafPinto]

Are they really Saudis?

 

Look at their clothes and the hair of the one with the luggage.
The other ones no luggage?
How can a "hand-luggage " go missing.
Showing the V?

Made up story.

[jacko45k]

18 hours ago, RafPinto said:

Are they really Saudis?

 

Look at their clothes and the hair of the one with the luggage.
The other ones no luggage?
How can a "hand-luggage " go missing.
Showing the V?

Made up story.

Well I was surprised they are allowed off out of the country to take a holiday as they control the young females' very strictly there. But I assure you, under the abaya and face scarves, they are quite human. Many are well educated......

Edited July 20, 2022 by jacko45k