Video: Meet "The Kindest German in Thailand" - with a heart of pure gold, just like the Thais

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Video: Meet "The Kindest German in Thailand" - with a heart of pure gold, just like the Thais

 

Picture: video screenshot

 

A German resident of Pattaya is doing his best to improve the image of the resort that has taken a bit of a battering in the last few years.

 

In fact it shouldn't be long before this Teutonic Titan is awarded the title of "The Kindest German in Thailand".

 

Nong Preu resident Herr Reiner Abele, 62, has been living in Thailand for three decades. Married to Ankhana, 51, these days he has followed her kind Buddhist and Thai ways.

 

Every day without fail he is seen in front of his humble abode offering alms to the monks. And all food for the sustenance of the clergy is meticulously prepared by the couple on their premises.

 

Whatever is left over is then packaged into polystyrene containers and delivered to Pattaya's needy - the homeless and the destitute of Beach Road for example.

 

Picture: video screenshot

 

Tirelessly, this selfless German has put the smile back in the land of smiles following his wife's fine example of making merit for the good of others.

 

And for what reward the news media politely requested?

 

"It just makes me "sabai jai"" (feel good), he told Pattaya News who said he had a heart of gold just like Thais.

 

Herr Reiner Abele continues the upward spiral of excellent Germans in Thailand.

 

Following fat leg beggar Benjamin Holst who let the side down with his antics before fleeing to Gambia with his tail between his ample legs came news of "The Holiest German in Thailand" - a monk who passed top level Buddhist exams on his way up the Sangha ladder.

 

Now comes another great example that is sure to raise Pattaya up to where she rightfully belongs.

 

Source: Pattaya News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-02-20

 

[Thaiwrath]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

Now comes another great example that is sure to raise Pattaya up to where she rightfully belongs.

Another delusional reporter ? 

[lamyai3]

53 minutes ago, webfact said:

Whatever is left over is then packaged into polystyrene containers

Beach Road needs more polystyrene containers like it needs a hole in the head. 

 

55 minutes ago, webfact said:

Following fat leg beggar Benjamin Holst who let the side down with his antics before fleeing to Gambia with his tail between his ample legs

Only one leg was ample, the other was regular. 

[4MyEgo]

Good to see a farang doing good for the needy, as opposed to the usual doom and gloom grumpy old keyboard hackers.

 

Keep it up mate, RESPECT !

[steven100]

good work.  A change from the unhappy TV farang who think everything is wrong in Thailand.

Well done Mr German man ...

[cornishcarlos]

2 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

Beach Road needs more polystyrene containers like it needs a hole in the head. 

 

Great to see someone enjoying life in Thailand and taking care of some others..

Maybe you could do your bit and supply him with bio-degradable alternatives then ?? 

Or just bitch and moan from behind your keyboard, it's optional :)

[justsignedin]

Wonderful, happy story for a change. Good on him.

[Kadilo]

Well done to him. Why? "Because it makes him feel good" what better reason does one need to help others.


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[jacko45k]

So that is where all the polystyrene litter on the Beach is coming from!

If it makes him feel good of course it is fine, although I am not sure this is actually an example of 'Thai ways' particularly in Pattaya.

[mercman24]

brainwashed Thais, the lot of them, beggars in robes we call them, rich as hell, (have you seen the money being handed over at the temples, and spent on drugs , booze, and young kids. ) i have seen poor people down to their last baht giving these leeches money, in the hope of good luck, i tell my MRS you make your own luck in life, yep been to a few temples to see poor folk drop a 100 baht bill into an urn then off to another part of the complex to drop off a few more 100 bahts

[Borzandy]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

with a heart of pure gold, just like the Thais

Just like the joke of the month.

[Jai Dee]

One troll post and subsequent replies have been removed from this thread.

[cornishcarlos]

17 minutes ago, mercman24 said:

brainwashed Thais, the lot of them, beggars in robes we call them, rich as hell, (have you seen the money being handed over at the temples, and spent on drugs , booze, and young kids. ) i have seen poor people down to their last baht giving these leeches money, in the hope of good luck, i tell my MRS you make your own luck in life, yep been to a few temples to see poor folk drop a 100 baht bill into an urn then off to another part of the complex to drop off a few more 100 bahts

 

If it makes them feel better and it does no harm, nothing wrong with it.

Monks doing illegal things, with the money donated, is another story altogether... 

[Bob12345]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

with a heart of pure gold, just like the Thais

Found a foreigner doing good?

Turn it around to feed thai nationalism. What a nice culture.

[stanleycoin]

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

Good to see a farang doing good for the needy, as opposed to the usual doom and gloom grumpy old keyboard hackers.

 

Keep it up mate, RESPECT !

Picture 2,  yes very nice man. (i to give money to the people with no limbs) 

picture 1,  I would never do that in Thailand.

[empireboy]

Nowhere in the world can can there ever be too much respect and generous kindness. 

Thanks man!  

[Get Real]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Now comes another great example that is sure to raise Pattaya up to where she rightfully belongs.

I just take a wild guess, and say that it´s gonná have to be a little bit more to reach that level of success. Still in the gutter!

[KiChakayan]

Very informative: he is a good man and [all] Thais have a heart of gold.

 

Hilarious..

 

[Tchooptip]

2 minutes ago, KiChakayan said:

Very informative: he is a good man and [all] Thais have a heart of gold.

 

Hilarious..

 

I prefer the heart of many Thais I know rather than the embittered heart of some old grumpy TV members 

[StayinThailand2much]

24 minutes ago, Bob12345 said:

Found a foreigner doing good?

Turn it around to feed thai nationalism. What a nice culture.

Thailand #1!!   (Military dictatorship - Check, corruption - Check, national pride - Check, number of national flags - Check, rice exports - Check...) NOT #1: self-criticism, realism, future-planning, democracy, education, healthcare, eradication of poverty, eradication of underage prostitution and trafficking... 

[4MyEgo]

28 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

Picture 2,  yes very nice man. (i to give money to the people with no limbs) 

picture 1,  I would never do that in Thailand.

Good for you, keep it up, nice work.

 

Up to you, I never have a problem to give some food to the monks, but the wife on the other hand, not so much

[Thian]

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Good to see a farang doing good for the needy, as opposed to the usual doom and gloom grumpy old keyboard hackers.

 

Keep it up mate, RESPECT !

 

This guy also helps people and animals all days long.

[roo860]

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This guy also helps people and animals all days long.

Yep he does, when he's not giving the cops a right old bollocking!! Good on ya!!!

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[soalbundy]

I bet Holst will have a bigger smile on his face than Reiner when his time comes. The Pattaya expat community could stuff Reiner and put him on show in a glass casket when he dies, expat redemption.

[csabo]

So the needy get the scraps? Let the monks go fish. 

[baansgr]

So if Thais have such a heart of gold, why do the majority lie and thieve at every opportunity, the untold heartache that many cause can not be covered over by giving monks a few bananas 

[agood1963]

What a lovely person , keep up the good work .British people are in need of someone kind like that as well .

[Charlie1]

"with a heart of pure gold, just like the Thais"

 

Come on, really? That must be fake gold then.

[outsider]

30 minutes ago, baansgr said:

So if Thais have such a heart of gold, why do the majority lie and thieve at every opportunity, the untold heartache that many cause can not be covered over by giving monks a few bananas 

 

Yes, the headline is a bit of a cheap shot and corny as hell, and typical of Thai media to piggyback on a feel-good story and spin it into a nationalistic piece. I certainly won't agree that all and every Thai (or any other nationaloties or ethnicities for that matter!) has a heart of pure gold, but I also would not make sweeping and arbitrary remarks that suggest that the MAJORITY of Thais are liars and thieves at every opportunity. I wonder where you obtained that statistics from.

 

 

Edited February 20, 2018 by outsider

[mogandave]

Isn’t gold cold and hard?