Police to summon snack executives whose marketing plan causes bomb fears
Police will soon summon executives of a snack company, whose alleged marketing scheme of placing gift boxes at bus stops in Bangkok's Bueang Kum and Lat Phrao districts on Friday triggered bomb fears and prompted police bomb squads to investigate.
Metropolitan Police Area 4 chief Major General Chisanupong Yuktathat said he had instructed officers at Lat Phrao, Bueang Kum and Khok Khram police stations whose jurisdictions were found with such suspicious gift boxes at bus stops on Friday to find the source of such products. He also expressed that it was likely to be a marketing scheme rather than coincidence because there are many such boxes.
Lat Phrao Superintendent Colonel Somsak Boonsaeng said officers would swiftly find the origin of such gift boxes and invite company executives to question about their intention of such action. If the executives admitted the gift boxes were the company's, police could initially press a charge of "threatening others to fear", punishable for up to one month in jail and/or Bt1,000 in find, according to Somsak.
The Nation