How Flooded Is Bangkok?

On a Saturday night, when I really should have been watching football, I noticed Vanalli and thai101 discussing the Bangkok floods on Twitter…
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Water, water, every where

Worst flooding in decades swamps Thailand

Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You may have noticed that Thailand is suffering its worst floods in fifty years.

If not, click on the picture above or follow this link to see some very powerful photos from The Atlantic.
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When they said “blood on the streets”…

…I didn’t quite expect this.

Red shirted protesters carry bottles of blood to protest site

Thousands of red-shirted supporters of exiled former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra, have each donated blood, which has been collected in bottles all day, and now poured at the gates of Government House.

Blood poured at a gate of Government House, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Protesters received free Ovaltine in return for giving blood
  • Authorities have firefighting trucks & disinfectant ready
  • Brahmin rite was performed before the blood-pouring, to curse the elites in power – “enemies to democracy”
  • Thai stock index gains 17.37 points – 2.36%

Truth is stranger than fiction…