webfact Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Surin villagers making offerings to deformed dead piglet By Coconuts Bangkok SURIN: -- Residents in Surin’s Amphoe Sungkha have been making offerings to a strange-looking piglet that died upon birth yesterday, believing that the arrival of the strange creature will bring luck to the owner’s family. Run Boonnueang, a 60-year-old Surin local, was not amazed when he witnessed his three-year-old breeder giving birth to ten piglets in the morning of Jan. 17 since it was her fourth delivery. What intrigued him was the last baby that came out of its mother’s womb and died at birth. The unusual baby pig has one eye and a trunk-like, five-centimeter-long growth [more...] Full story: http://www.coconutsb...ed-dead-piglet/ -- COCONUTS Bangkok 2013-01-19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DILLIGAD Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Sounds like a few expats I know from that area! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchai Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Some have brought flowers and incense sticks along with them to make an offering, hoping to gain some fortune and prosperity. Seems they'll have to wait until 2015. ASEAN will do the trick, or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICHONSTEVE Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Just goes to show how 'pig-ignorant' these people are!!! Haven't they heard of birth defects before? - I think I can answer that one actually. Maybe the 'red pig ghosts' were responsible so they should tether a pig outside every house to repel it!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturatica Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Oh dear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgs2001uk Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Sounds like a few expats I know from that area! Have you ever seen some of their wives? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchai Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Sounds like a few expats I know from that area! Have you ever seen some of their wives? Here's "Noi", married to a guy near Surin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TackyToo Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I am just wondering how Neandertal behavior and ASEAN as well as the often praised globalisation fit together in a Thais mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Just goes to show how 'pig-ignorant' these people are!!! Haven't they heard of birth defects before? - I think I can answer that one actually. Maybe the 'red pig ghosts' were responsible so they should tether a pig outside every house to repel it!!!! Dear oh dear...and all these years my sister in England has had a horseshoe hanging outside her front door of her farmhouse in the hope that it will bring good luck. maybe she is pig (or horse )ignorant too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 (edited) Is it just me (probably) but one of the pics looks like there is a pair of hands, severed at the wrists holding the pigs ears. Could this possibly be evidence of a homesick expat Kiwi caught in the act and the rest of the story is just a cover up? the pig looks to have a smile on his face!! Edited January 19, 2013 by Mudcrab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kotsak Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 TiT in the 21st century.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiKiwi Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Just goes to show how 'pig-ignorant' these people are!!! Haven't they heard of birth defects before? - I think I can answer that one actually. Maybe the 'red pig ghosts' were responsible so they should tether a pig outside every house to repel it!!!! Almost as ridiculous as people having concerns about walking under a ladder or breaking a mirror or Friday the 13th or the chanting "Bloody Mary" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innitsee Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 what did it taste like ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DILLIGAD Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 what did it taste like ? Tesco's everyday value burger, probably Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisb Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 You could of at least warned me when I clicked the link I was gonna see it. Doesnt matter to late now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirchai Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I am just wondering how Neandertal behavior and ASEAN as well as the often praised globalisation fit together in a Thais mind... Baht will become Euros and $........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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