Foreigner joins villagers in smelly stork poo protest!

webfact · May 9, 2018

Foreigner joins villagers in smelly stork poo protest!

Pictures (2): INN

There are many reasons why foreigners residing in Thai villagers both love and sometimes hate the experience.

The friendliness and genuine kindness of the locals can be the biggest boon.

But they occasionally get noisy and are not always the cleanest of folk living up to exacting western standards.

However, it is not usually bird poo that is the main problem.

Yesterday an unidentified foreigner in a surgical face mask joined with his fellow Bang Jak villagers in Ang Thong province to complain to the media about the stink coming from some vegetation behind their houses.

The culprit are a flock of storks known in Thai as Nok Paak Haang or the Asian Openbill.

Prakhong Rungreuang, 64, told INN that the smell was awful and people had been getting headaches. She feared Asian Bird Flu especially in the rainy season when the stench got worse. She said it had been going on for three years that led to the protest.

The local authority had done nothing, she said.

Now it seems that with the involvement of the media local official Nusara Janwongkaew has finally promised action.

She said that the vegetation that gives the birds their habitat would be cut down.

Source: INN