Loy Krathong "coin-snatchers" get ready
If you are celebrating Loy Krathong at one of Bangkok's rivers, canals or public parks that draws lots of people, you might watch to see if there are some young people in the water.
Sighted at Kasetsart University last night by our photographer Pattarapong Chatpattarasill.
If there are, they are probably looking for the coins that many festival-goers leave in their floating baskets (krathong) to make merit or ask for good luck from the water goddess Phra Mae Khongkha.
Usually these people wait until the festival-goers have gone home, but some seem to be very impatient.
Facebook user IceLing Rawisara posted a video clip of one coin looter who stood only metres away from a pier in Bangkok where people were floating their krathongs. He picked up krathong after krathong, clearly looking for coins.
You can hear from the video that some of the people noticed what was going on and they weren't happy about it.
"What's going on?", the Facebook user wrote. "Is this a Loy Krathong tradition?"