Stop that disrespectful foreigner flying over Buddha's relics!

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

Thai residents in Lampang have called for action against a foreigner flying a paramotor over a sacred Buddhist religious site.

 

Visitors to the temple of Wat Phra That Lampang Luang on Friday evening were shocked to see the man almost collide with a structure that houses Buddha's relics.

 

The site is 1,300 years old in the Koh Kha district of the northern Thai province.

 

Thai people tried to chase him away as startled birds flew off.

 

The foreigner was seen to land nearby where he and a friend hurriedly packed up their paramotor and fled the scene.

 

Thais want something done about this inappropriate behavior, reported Thai Rath.

 

A paramotor is a powered paraglider.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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In my many years in this country seeing and hearing the most bizarre

and ridiculous things, i have never come across such an item where

people are upset is someone flys over some relic, there is no law

against it and it's not disrespecting anyone's religion, what about

those airplane full of foreigners who fly every day over many Thai

Buddha relics located all over Thailand?...

Perhaps the part where he almost collided with the structure is what raised their ire?


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This foreigner should have know a little bit better. Choosing to paraglide so close to and around as well as closely over a buddist religious place is a lack of common knowledge.

Ha just should have known better.

I live near Kalasin and often see Paramotors flying low over the busy highways and even over the city at low altitudes. An accident waiting to happen  

Over is a no no as his feet point down. Hanging them is ridiculous as it was an innocent flight. If the complaint is true, then Thai are getting soooooo superficial. 

1 hour ago, Sealbash said:

Perhaps the part where he almost collided with the structure is what raised their ire?

Also known as the part where he didn't collide with anything.

3 hours ago, Get Real said:

This foreigner should have know a little bit better. Choosing to paraglide so close to and around as well as closely over a buddist religious place is a lack of common knowledge.

Ha just should have known better.

Do you need a license to power glide in Thailand

14 minutes ago, AsiaHand said:

Do you need a license to power glide in Thailand

Don´t power glide, so it´s not in my interest to keep track of that.

1.300 years old temple ???????

No such thing in thailand , their best buildings crack and start leaking after a few years ......

maby they mean  the Khmer left overs ....yep, but not build by Thais.

 

Omg!!!  All of the Thai aviation centers will now need to divert their aircraft away for flying over the tops of Buddhist wats and temples along their flight path!!! 

It seems as the delicate sensibilities of Thais actively look for things that can offend them.  The more absurd the better.  This is beyond ridiculous. As a Buddhist, trust me - Buddha doesn't care!

However -- there are flight rules, and the moron in the para-glider is violating them.  The idiot should be found and charged with violations of standard flight safety rules. Flight rules are generally the same between countries.  Pilots operation via Visual Flight Rules (in the US) must maintain a minimum lateral distance of 500 ft from buildings and are restricted from flying in a hazardous manner around buildings.  So the pilot should be subject to violating the Thai equivalent internationally accepted flight rules and practices.  What he did was stupid.

33 minutes ago, connda said:

Omg!!!  All of the Thai aviation centers will now need to divert their aircraft away for flying over the tops of Buddhist wats and temples along their flight path!!! 

It seems as the delicate sensibilities of Thais actively look for things that can offend them.  The more absurd the better.  This is beyond ridiculous. As a Buddhist, trust me - Buddha doesn't care!

However -- there are flight rules, and the moron in the para-glider is violating them.  The idiot should be found and charged with violations of standard flight safety rules. Flight rules are generally the same between countries.  Pilots operation via Visual Flight Rules (in the US) must maintain a minimum lateral distance of 500 ft from buildings and are restricted from flying in a hazardous manner around buildings.  So the pilot should be subject to violating the Thai equivalent internationally accepted flight rules and practices.  What he did was stupid.

Well he was French, says it all really. 

2 hours ago, lucjoker said:

1.300 years old temple ???????

No such thing in thailand , their best buildings crack and start leaking after a few years ......

maby they mean  the Khmer left overs ....yep, but not build by Thais.

 

Not defending the OP but it did say the SITE  was 1300 years old not the current Wat.   In Europe many cathedrals are built on sites much older than that because of perceived ley lines or something else like that, I. E. Pre Christian era. Sometimes the current cathedral is a paltry 800 or 1,000 years old.

It would be nice if Thais spent as much time practicing and following Buddhas teachings as they do worrying about these sort of things. 

I do not want to take their defense but I think it's certainly an accident, at least, I hope....... 

 

surprise none of them on the ground didn't try to chute him down!

 

surely LOS isn't the only country that does not control airspace, and have regulated clearance limitations of powered flight over built up areas?

1 hour ago, Khun Paul said:

Well he was French, says it all really. 

Remember After the Wright Brothers were first in powered flight ,The French took up the aviation challenge and in a few years became the foremost innovators in the field with many Americans going to France to become more efferent in aviation.

2 hours ago, connda said:

As a Buddhist, trust me - Buddha doesn't care!

 

As a Buddhist, trust me - there are no Buddha relics in that structure.

 

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

a structure that houses Buddha's relics.

 

With regards to this story, what would Lord Buddha say?

8 minutes ago, Slip said:

With regards to this story, what would Lord Buddha say?

ummm "..there are no flies on us?"

 

 

 

or... subcontract the case out, to Lord kKarma

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Stop that disrespectful foreigner flying over Buddha's relics!

How about - Stop that disrespectful behavior of greedy, criminal, drug dealing, molesting, boozing monks? 

3 hours ago, Slip said:

With regards to this story, what would Lord Buddha say?

He'd say "This is 525 BC, what the <deleted> is a paramotor?"

if you are consider the angle from where this picture was made, size of the tower and the size of the parasail, then most properly the glider was 300++ meters away from the temple.
this is the legal distance to sell alcohol away from schools, so it must be enough to pass a temple in air too.

 

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thai people tried to chase him away as startled birds flew off.

 

The foreigner was seen to land nearby where he and a friend hurriedly packed up their paramotor and fled the scene.

What is nearby and how about the temple in Suvarnabhumi Airport?
I can understand that they have hurried to pack everything, if a wild superstitous mob is chasing you. In the twilight they have seen Krahang flying over there heads and who knows what they have thrown onto them. Guns are everywhere and bullets flying easy.
Better to make a runner.

It is advisable to keep a low profil with all those spersitous around you particularly in the rural area, it is very easy to piss on s***er off. All your adventure sports you should practice outside of Thailand, they are not ready for this.

He who flies with 2 stroke motors will experience engine failure sometime fourtunatly paragliders are very forgiving I’m sure budda would be thrilled and would want to experience it himself 

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Did a lucky lottery number come out of this? 

STOP :

Those disrespectful Thais from littering with gay abandon

Those Thais that think they have the right tp do wjat they want when they want 

Those Thais from ignoring all laws because they do not like them.

 

When that happens THEN foreigners might have more respect, now they see what Thais do , and COPY.

O;d adage... People in Glasshouses should not throw stones ....................

18 hours ago, Get Real said:

This foreigner should have know a little bit better. Choosing to paraglide so close to and around as well as closely over a buddist religious place is a lack of common knowledge.

Ha just should have known better.

This, might be the most ridiculous deflection I have read on Thai Visa this week. Congrats!! 

43 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

This, might be the most ridiculous deflection I have read on Thai Visa this week. Congrats!! 

So putting you feet over somebody´s head or Buddha´s head is perfectly fine in this part of the world? The only thing ridiculous is that you choose to disregard that it´s not ok.
It might also be that you are unaware, or just don´t wont to act like a respectful person in a country with different values. You might even be a person that do not wont to respect the culture and the beliefs of the people. Who is making himself ridiculous then?

'Disrespectful'

'Foreigner'

Surely not.

I read on here that all foreigners are fantastic people doing their best to make LoS a better place.

Maybe they are misunderstood