So, would you fancy holidaying in Swampy airport for 3 months by CHOICE ??

So, would you fancy holidaying in Swampy airport for 3 months by CHOICE ??

From BBC Asia news site :
No-one really enjoys a long airport stopover, but for one Zimbabwean family, Bangkok's main airport has been home for nearly three months.

According to the Thai immigration bureau, the four children under 11 and four adults arrived in Bangkok in May, but are refusing to return to Zimbabwe for fear of persecution.

Their plight came to light after someone who said he worked at Suvarnabhumi airport posted a photo on Facebook showing himself giving a little African girl a Christmas present. In the now deleted post, Kanaruj Artt Pornsopit said the family had been living in the airport for nearly three months "because of the unsettled situation" in their country.

End of paste.


BUT reading on into the story all maybe not be quite what it seems perhaps with their sad plight and if one was a cynic one might suggest that the parents are as we say here in Ireland "at their work" and trying perhaps to play the system !!

Full story below....[/FONT][/COLOR]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-42499739

chancers....

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Nirish guy

According to the Thai immigration bureau, the four children under 11 and four adults arrived in Bangkok in May, but are refusing to return to Zimbabwe for fear of persecution.

Their plight came to light after someone who said he worked at Suvarnabhumi airport posted a photo on Facebook showing himself giving a little African girl a Christmas present. In the now deleted post, Kanaruj Artt Pornsopit said the family had been living in the airport for nearly three months "because of the unsettled situation" in their country.

---

Not quite the full story. They are refugees from Zimbabwe who it seems hoped to claim asylum in Spain. However on attempting to board a Ukraine Airlines flight (how desperate is that?) in Bangkok they were denied boarding as they lacked Spanish visas. They also lack visas for Thailand. Apparently Ukraine Airways is making sure they are fed. Not quite a question of "choice" but it makes for a sensationalist thread title

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-12-...ort-two-months

I blame Tom Hanks for this nonsense.

Don’t know if you read the article Frequent but one of the Thai officials states quite clearly that the family DO have several options open to them where to go but haven’t simply chosen not to take up those options, leading to the general view as I’d said that they’re “at their work” and holding out either for a location that suits themselves or quite simply are happy being fed and watered by others for a while making making themselves someone else’s problem for a while perhaps .

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Nirish guy

Don’t know if you read the article Frequent but one of the Thai officials states quite clearly that the family DO have several options open to them where to go but haven’t simply chosen not to take up those options, leading to the general view as I’d said that they’re “at their work” and holding out either for a location that suits themselves or quite simply are happy being fed and watered by others for a while making making themselves someone else’s problem for a while perhaps .

---

No, I've read the story in the Bangkok Post or the Nation (I forget which, perhaps both) while guzzling my morning Starbucks

rather than three months in Zimbabwe? hmmm.

The article also states that aside from economic issues in Zimbabwe the place is calm and stable right now so I think stuck in an airport WOULD be less favourable than that perhaps myself. Smiles mentioned the Tom Hanks film re this sort of thing and I was amazed to read that THAT film was actually based on the true story of the guy who had spent 18 !!!! years stuck in an airport ! I mean how could that even work !? Did they let him slip out the back door and come back in and out occasionally I wonder or was he REALLY stuck inside a terminal for 18 years I wonder as that just doesn't bare thinking about.

Quote:

---

Mehran Karimi Nasseri (مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced [mehˈrɒn kʲæriˈmi nɒseˈri]; born 1942), also known as Sir Alfred Mehran,[1] is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 26 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment.

---

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri

Given a choice I'd prefer an airport over the Equadorian Embassy that Julian Arrange currently calls home.