Lampang: "Berserk" monk tosses grenade at neighbor in ongoing feud

[webfact]

Lampang: "Berserk" monk tosses grenade at neighbor in ongoing feud

 

Picture; Sanook

 

Police in Lampang arrested a monk after he tossed a grenade at a neighbor.

 

EOD explosives experts had to be called but it was soon determined that the grenade was not a live round but a training device.

 

Rungrot, 61, said the grenade was thrown at him by the man who lives opposite his house with whom he has had a long running feud. 

 

That man is monk Phra Sak, 48. 

 

Rungrot said that at 5.40 am on Sunday Phra Sak was causing a right kerfuffle before going on his bintabaht (alms) round. 

 

After confronting him, he tossed the device into his property then fled the scene. Sanook said the man of the cloth went berserk in their headline.

 

At first Rungrot thought it was a ping pong grenade. On closer inspection he was scared and put it outside by the road. 

 

EOD personnel surrounded it with a car tire before determining that it was harmless. 

 

Later Phra Sak came back from his rounds into the arms of the constabulary. 

 

A search of his house revealed nothing illegal and a urine test showed he had not taken drugs. 

 

He denied throwing the grenade. 

 

Fingerprint analysis is underway before charges might be made. 

 

Sanook did not explain why a monk was living in a house and not staying at a temple, notes Thaivisa. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[colinneil]

Just now, webfact said:

he tossed the device into his property then fled the scene. 

 

What a silly tosser, tossing a dud grenade into his neighbours place.

At least he could have got a live 1 and done a proper job.????????????????????????

[PatOngo]

I must be reading dodgy books, my books say buddhists are pacifists who stay in temples?

[CorpusChristie]

When the Monk came around next time seeking donations, the guy should have given him his grenade back and told to to put that in your pot 

[trainman34014]

53 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

I must be reading dodgy books, my books say buddhists are pacifists who stay in temples?

They seem to let the Drawbridge down quite often; i saw four of them in Tesco filling a trolley with upmarket food products yesterday.  Guess all the alms collected food is keeping the Temple Stray Dogs happy !

[nausea]

i think the accepted thing to do, if you're an upset Buddhist monk, is self-immolation. Searched the Sutras but can't find any reference to throwing grenades.

[worgeordie]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Sanook did not explain why a monk was living in a house and not staying at a temple,

Must be a freelancer....keeps the takings for himself.

regards worgeordie

[tomazbodner]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

He denied throwing the grenade.

Buddhist monk would never lie. He knew very well it was just a mock... Or did he?

 

Where do monks get weapons anyway? Is this part of the alms, or temple donations or they have a steady supplier of war weapons? I'd like to hear one good explanation why temples must arm with explosives...

Edited August 17, 2020 by tomazbodner

[tomazbodner]

19 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

They seem to let the Drawbridge down quite often; i saw four of them in Tesco filling a trolley with upmarket food products yesterday.  Guess all the alms collected food is keeping the Temple Stray Dogs happy !

Ah come on now, there are no upmarket food products at Tesco. Nothing worty of them anyway. They should be shopping at least at Villa Market, if not Emquartier.

[bluesofa]

30 minutes ago, nausea said:

i think the accepted thing to do, if you're an upset Buddhist monk, is self-immolation. Searched the Sutras but can't find any reference to throwing grenades.

Perhaps it's acceptable to throw it against a wall so it bounces back at you, allowing a variation on self-immolation, with a bnag?

Sorry - that's bang out of order.

Edited August 17, 2020 by bluesofa

[Grumpy one]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

I must be reading dodgy books, my books say buddhists are pacifists who stay in temples?

This monk is a pacifist, the grenade was as lethal as a rock tossed through a window 

[sammieuk1]

Defrock this grenade launcher before he gets his bazooka out ???? 

[PatOngo]

53 minutes ago, nausea said:

i think the accepted thing to do, if you're an upset Buddhist monk, is self-immolation. Searched the Sutras but can't find any reference to throwing grenades.

Thai buddhism is unique!

[how241]

Is putting a tire around a live gremand the right way to stop any injuries ?  Certainly better than nothing.

[Bender Rodriguez]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

EOD explosives experts had to be called but it was soon determined that the grenade was not a live round but a training device.

so how does a monk obtain such device ?

 

hence, the zero respect I have for that kind

[Matzzon]

Another member of the righteous! I guess he is deeply religious, and believe in Buddhism whole heartedly.

 

3 hours ago, stouricks said:

I put this in Google Translate, but nothing came back.   PML

Wonder what Google you are using. No problem to get a result.
 

 

 

 

 

 

ker·fuf·fle

/kərˈfəfəl/

 

noun

INFORMAL•BRITISH

 

1. a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views.

   "there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship"

Edited August 17, 2020 by Matzzon

[stouricks]

41 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

Another member of the righteous! I guess he is deeply religious, and believe in Buddhism whole heartedly.

 

Wonder what Google you are using. No problem to get a result.
 

 

 

 

 

 

ker·fuf·fle

/kərˈfəfəl/

 

noun

INFORMAL•BRITISH

 

1. a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views.

   "there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship"

No, that's Google Dictionary. I was trying to translate it into Thai to explain to the Mrs.

[marquis22]

1 hour ago, how241 said:

Is putting a tire around a live gremand the right way to stop any injuries ?  Certainly better than nothing.

Better than putting the tire and car on it, if it did happen to go off. ????

[Pedrogaz]

How angry with your neighbour do you have to be to throw a grenade at him?

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

After confronting him, he tossed the device into his property then fled the scene. Sanook said the man of the cloth went berserk in their headline.

Not exactly the "middle path" ?

[Hi Tea]

5 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

They seem to let the Drawbridge down quite often; i saw four of them in Tesco filling a trolley with upmarket food products yesterday.  Guess all the alms collected food is keeping the Temple Stray Dogs happy !

"...in Tesco filling a trolley with upmarket food products..."

That's a contradiction in terms if I ever heard one!

[Hi Tea]

5 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Buddhist monk would never lie. He knew very well it was just a mock... Or did he?

 

Where do monks get weapons anyway? Is this part of the alms, or temple donations or they have a steady supplier of war weapons? I'd like to hear one good explanation why temples must arm with explosives...

He didn't have a weapon, it was a fake.

[metisdead]

Posts and replies bickering about the usage of "kerfuffle" have been removed.  PML

 

An inflammatory post and other troll posts have been removed. 

 

 

 

 

[JimmyJ]

On 8/17/2020 at 12:59 PM, CorpusChristie said:

When the Monk came around next time seeking donations, the guy should have given him his grenade back and told to to put that in your pot 

...and smoke it.

[hmficc]

“Grenade” is rarely a military type in Thailand. Most often an improvised explosive device-real or fake.

Edited August 18, 2020 by hmficc
Clarity

[hmficc]

Could John Denver’s Country Road have played a part??

[daveAustin]

On 8/17/2020 at 8:38 AM, Bender Rodriguez said:

so how does a monk obtain such device ?

 

hence, the zero respect I have for that kind

There are many charlatans in cloth, but no need to generalise as a lot are decent and have right mind. But this guy is a monk not, or has lost his way.

[phetchy]

On 8/17/2020 at 2:35 PM, how241 said:

Is putting a tire around a live gremand the right way to stop any injuries ?  Certainly better than nothing.

Maybe it was a 'Goodyear' tyre and the bomb squad took this to mean they had divine protection?  Or even a 'Goodrich' with the lucky numbers for the next lottery highlighted in the tread?

[how241]

2 hours ago, phetchy said:

Maybe it was a 'Goodyear' tyre and the bomb squad took this to mean they had divine protection?  Or even a 'Goodrich' with the lucky numbers for the next lottery highlighted in the tread?

ha ha ha....Seriously,  you might be right.

[overherebc]

On 8/17/2020 at 2:35 PM, how241 said:

Is putting a tire around a live gremand the right way to stop any injuries ?  Certainly better than nothing.

No. You put your steel helmet on it then sit on it.

You're reading the wrong comic books.