Article: Bangkok Post, Thailand, Insider Column.

Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 11--CARD CARRYING CROOKS: Yesterday we told the tale of a diplomat who had received a business card from a man he found prowling in his Tokyo house. The intruder, it turned out, was not a burglar but a security guard responding to a silent alarm.

But this was Japan, and the notion of a burglar having a business card might be entirely plausible. Reader B.M. supplied the following elaboration:

"I don't have business cards from burglars but I do have quite a few from extortionists. I used to write about Japan's underworld and have a considerable collection of business cards given ...

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