A dragon made out of one enormous sheet of red plastic ran for hundreds of meters through the middle of Yaowarat Road, the center of Chinatown in Bangkok. Thousands of paper scales adorned the dragon, with people's names inked on them. In typical Thai fashion, the dragon ran down the middle of a frantically busy street, preventing people from moving freely along the festival grounds. At one end the plastic dragon had been trampled by people attempting to get to the other side.