Monk drunk as a skunk! Belligerent "Phra" is defrocked in north but locals fear that won't stop him

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: Going downhill daily

Muang Nan police were called to a temple in Pha Sing sub-district of the northern Thai province after a belligerent monk who was paralytically drunk challenged locals to a fight.

He was drunk, noisy and swearing at everyone and what passed for speech was incoherent babble, reported Daily News.

The cops found Phra Pongsiri in the back of a pick-up reeking of booze.

He refused a breathalyser test but agreed to be defrocked.

 

Picture: Daily News

Locals said he'd been there less than a month but it had been a tempestuous time.

They feared that such an individual, despite being tossed out of the monkhood, would simply reordain elsewhere and continue his errant ways.

 

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[roo860]

 Brilliant ????????????

[sammieuk1]

 Just some holy water fun no need for any tossing out at the monkhood put his frock back on and be friends again ????

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

They feared that such an individual, despite being tossed out of the monkhood, would simply reordain elsewhere and continue his errant ways.

Free food and lodgings with money to buy booze... sweet.

[RichardColeman]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

They feared that such an individual, despite being tossed out of the monkhood, would simply reordain elsewhere and continue his errant ways.

I'm all for the 'Monk Reject' forced tattoo somewhere on his body to stop that

[EVENKEEL]

Living in Isaan before we had a monk come over with his handler to sit on out back stoop to drink whiskey. One of the MIL's monks.

[Bangkok Barry]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

what passed for speech was incoherent babble

I don't want to seem impolite or disrespectful, but so is the hours of chanting they do, which people actually pay them for while not understanding a word of it. It's a strange culture.