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Originally Posted by landofsmiles
FEMALE tourists visting the Thai island of Phuket will be given safety whistles, the Thai Tourism Minister said overnight, two days after a Swedish woman was murdered in broad daylight.
The safety whistles will be shaped like the symbol commonly used to designate women - a circle above a cross - and can be worn around the neck, said Major Sathabhorn Sangaunsuk of Phuket police.
The tourism ministry also plans to increase the presence of security guards around the island and publish safety manuals that will be distributed to tourists.
Authorities said the plan had just been devised and they did not immediately know when the distribution of whistles would begin.
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Seriously, were I paid to come up with a plan to damage the tourist industry in Phuket I could not have come up with a better idea....take an isolated tragic incident, throw in a knee jerk reaction and highlight the negatives over and over again....every time someone sees one of those damn whistles it will evoke memories of this poor girls murder (call me old fashioned but why not highlight that the case is all but solved - swift justice and all that).