The man puts the bag of bird seed back in the tourist’s hand and tells him to throw it on the ground. Confused, the tourist does as he is told. Two more bags are passed to him and he is told again to throw the bird seed on the ground.Then comes the punchline. The man demands that the tourist now pays him 300 Baht. The tourist at first refuses as he didn’t understand what was going on. But the man starts to get aggressive and demands that he pays him straight away. Finally the tourist capitulates and gives him the money. Some people may say that this is the tourist’s fault for being so naive. But it is really extortion and this should be reported to the police. Unfortunately, I tried this but the Tourist Police were not interested. They knew it was going on but they chose to turn a blind eye. I will write more about my frustrations with the Tourist Police over on my blog RichardBarrow.com soon.