Visitors, many of them twentysomething Thai hipsters, gather at a series of lots near old train tracks not far from the Chatuchak market.

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That added to delays since flights had to wait for space in the stream of planes and made it difficult for lots of flights to get on ideal tracks for winds, slowing flights and increasing fuel burn.

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The easy ability to sample new tracks online, goes the argument, may tempt people to buy lots of stuff that they would not otherwise hear about.

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Nanex, the high-end market technology firm that tracks this kind of weirdness as a sideline has links and original research on lots of weird market events, reporting on this one is in the mid-October zone of their chronological listing.

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