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[Wino]

Seems like a lot of money to spend on "demon statues." Many Thai people believe in this demon spirits and so I guess it is worthi it to them.


Thailand's main airport is to relocate 12 giant "demon statues" to boost the morale of staff who thought the figures brought bad luck, local media and officials said Tuesday.

The statues at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport will move from the arrivals area to the check-in zone at a cost of around 1.7 million baht (51,000 dollars), said Airports of Thailand (AOT) president Serirat Prasutanond.

"AOT has decided to move the statues to the check-in concourse to give passengers and other people a chance to appreciate the statues' beauty," he said in a statement.

But according to the English-language Bangkok Post newspaper, airport director Niran Thiranartsin admitted the decision had partly resulted from complaints from airport staff.

"The shopkeepers are blaming the 'demon statues' for the problems they have faced at the airport, which was seized late last year by demonstrators and supporters of the People's Alliance of Democracy" (PAD), the paper said.

"The guardian spirit statues will be shifted from the inner zone of the passenger terminal to the check-in area to 'improve morale' of people working at the airport," the report added.

The anti-government PAD seized two of the Thai capital's airports in a crippling eight-day blockade late in 2008, which badly dented the kingdom's tourist-friendly image.

Serirat presided over a religious ceremony at the airport Monday ahead of the relocation of the figures, which are modelled on 12 statues at Bangkok's Grand Palace. He said the move should be finished within 90 days.

http://news.ph.msn.c...umentid=3698557

[WannaGo]

Considering the fact that I made a point not to leave the house today because it's Friday the 13th, I won't even try to claim that I'm not at least a little superstitious...not sure how happy I would be if I had to walk past bad-luck statues and then get on a freaking airplane.

[lvdkeyes]

I find these superstitions rather silly, myself.

[Wino]

Wannago is in good company with his mild triskaidekaphobe. It is said that Henry Ford, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Napolean were very cautious on Friday the 13. Apollo 13 took of at 1313 military time and look at what happened on that trip. In the US, have you noticed that in elevators the numbers go from 12 to 14. Who knows?

[Beer Chang]

The place where I live doesn't have rooms 213, 313, etc.

[lvdkeyes]

Silliness! Just because the elevator goes from 12-14 doesn't mean that 14 is really 14. It is still 13, whatever they want to call it.

[Bob]

Hmmmm....business sucks so it must be the monkey statues. Solution is to move the monkey statues. Business still sucks.....hmmmm, maybe it's because there are fewer tourists and there are 8 million shops in the airport????? Duh.

[Beer Chang]

A waste of money IMHO

[Wino]

Beer Chang, on 15 November 2009 - 07:23 AM, said:

A waste of money IMHO

Seems government officials love to waste money. I remember a story about the government buying overpriced tolet seats. A waste of money.

[WannaGo]

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I find these superstitions rather silly, myself.

Yeah, me too...but so many crappy things have happened to me on Friday the 13th that I just can't help it. It's the only superstition I allow myself to indulge, so I figure I'm OK.

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I remember a story about the government buying overpriced tolet seats.

Didn't you see Independence Day? The overpriced toilet seats, hammers, etc. was all just cover so the government could funnel money into secret research of the Roswell landing.

[Wino]

WannaGo, on 16 November 2009 - 02:09 AM, said:

Yeah, me too...but so many crappy things have happened to me on Friday the 13th that I just can't help it. It's the only superstition I allow myself to indulge, so I figure I'm OK.

We have had three seperate occasions of Friday the 13th this year and I have been lucky enough not to have had any problems. I remeber a Friday the 13th back in the 80's. I had a car accident in the morning and latter that day, a notice of an IRS audit in the mail. That was almost enough to make me a believer.