I was wondering if any one who has been to Thailand, had experiences with professional beggars in Thailand. There have been many occasions, when a professional beggar has come up to me in an out door eatery in Bangkok and Paknam, but some beggars, take the art of begging to even more professional heights. I remember one incidence, when I was travelling in a bus from Samrong Samut Prakan, into Bangkok and as I was looking out the window at the footpath, there was a beggar with out any arms and no lower legs to be seen, a sign in front of him and a tin in his mouth to put money into, well as I was sitting high up in the bus, I could see behind the beggar, and could see the fact this beggar had arms and feet hidden in his shirt behind his back, that the public walking along the foot path, could not see. As I was sitting back one day watching a professional beggar going about plying her trade, I was realizing, some of these beggars make more money doing this than, what they would earn in a basic job. So what experience's have you had with the professional beggar's in the past and present, Are there still many professional beggars left since they removed them off the streets, for the October 2003, APEC summit in Bangkok, is this profession starting to make a come back.