Guest Posted December 1, 2003 Report Share Posted December 1, 2003 http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=567013 Tourist has bad luck after theft From correspondents in Bangkok November 30, 2003 A GERMAN tourist has returned a sliver of glass he filched from a revered Thai temple in the hope of ending a run of bad luck that has plagued him since taking it, reports here said today. Chakarat Chitrabongs, the Thai Ministry of Culture's top bureaucrat, told the mass circulation Thai Rath newspaper that the tourist had sent the glass shard along with a letter of apology to the Tourism Authority of Thailand. The tourist, who signed his name as Juergen Z, reportedly wrote that he had found a tiny glass tile chipped off a wall in Bangkok's Wat Phra Kaew, or Temple of the Emerald Buddha, while visiting it two or three years ago. He pocketed the tile after his tour guide told him he could take it home as a souvenir, Chakarat told the Thai-language newspaper. "Whether I have been cursed or not, I don't know, but something supernatural has been occurring ... and I have faced only bad luck, both in my personal and work life," the letter said according to the daily. "So I am sending this tiny piece of glass back to you with this letter, and I will send money to donate to the temple to apologise and try to get rid of my bad luck," he wrote. The 221-year-old temple is a popular stop on the itineraries of many foreign tourists visiting the Thai capital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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