They Don't Seem Worried

The one thing I cannot figure out in Thailand is, with all of the crime, especially with all of the gunmen who walk into a 7-11 and hold the place up and walk away with 1,200 baht and a stack of phone cards, is why I never hear about gold stores being robbed.

There are thousands of stores, in which hundreds of kilograms of exact-same-as-cash 24-carat gold are sitting just a few feet away from the sidewalk... hundreds of thousands of dollars just out of reach. It's literally the same as a store with a display case behind the counter showing stacks and stacks of $100 bills.

There must be one hell of a security system or something for such a place not to get robbed quite a bit... although I've never seen it. (Gun behind the counter perhaps?) Thailand has enough people like the couple of guys here in Pattaya who put a bullet into an old Englishman who failed to hand over his mobile phone, that it would seem somebody like those guys wouldn't hesitate to shoot their way into and out of a store with a fortune in gold inside.