{"id":118121,"date":"2019-04-09T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/tourists-could-face-death-penalty-for-runway-selfies-in-phuket-thailand\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:30:12","slug":"tourists-could-face-death-penalty-for-runway-selfies-in-phuket-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/tourists-could-face-death-penalty-for-runway-selfies-in-phuket-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists could face DEATH PENALTY for runway selfies in Phuket, Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          Tourists looking to tick an item off their bucket list may soon kick the bucket themselves under a new Thai law which would impose penalties ranging from fines to execution for so-called runway selfies.      <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPeople and tourists will not be allowed to enter this area to take photos,\u201d<\/em> Phuket International Airport deputy chief Wichit Kaeothaithiam told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/news\/general\/1640908\/tourists-urged-to-stay-off-airports-selfie-runway\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bangkok Post<\/a>. <em>\u201cThe maximum penalty is the death sentence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A high price to pay for the perfect holiday snap (#maikhaobeach yields over 20,000 image results on Instagram), but authorities warn that the trend is distracting for pilots and adds unnecessary stress to an already busy commercial air traffic route which regularly handles up to 24 flights per hour, 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/440302-russia-selfie-death-rating\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">                           Also on rt.com             Lethal shots: Russia ranks second in international selfie death rating                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, authorities are declaring the selfie zone at the end of the beach on the islands northwestern coast off limits to tourists, with penalties ranging from a fine of up to 40,000 baht (about $1,253), a jai<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/455952-thailand-runway-selfie-death-penalty\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=RSS\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contf]<br \/>\n[contfnew]<br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a0\/Russia-today-logo.svg\/1200px-Russia-today-logo.svg.png\"\/><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>[contfnewc]<br \/>\n[contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists looking to tick an item off their bucket list may soon kick the bucket themselves under a n..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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