Pic of the Day: From bad to worse in Bangkok. Not a good time to take the missus shopping for fake designer handbags.
A Red Shirt anti-government protester walks with his arms up in a street near Ding Daeng intersection through the smoke of burnt tyres and debris in Bangkok on May 17, 2010. Thousands of protesters in the Thai capital defied a deadline to leave their fortified encampment despite the threat of a crackdown after street clashes that left at least 35 people dead. (Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images).