Woman thanks statue with 300 pig heads
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- A woman offered 300 severed pig heads on platters to a Buddha statue in western Bangkok yesterday to mark the Year of Goat and thank it for spiritual help with a defaulted loan.

Sombat Lekpiam, 59, a Rachaburi fruit merchant, traveled with her family to Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Pathom with two pickup trucks loaded with pig heads to make good on a promise she made to the statue six years ago.

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-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-02-20

If it's "The Year of the Goat" why didn't she offer Goats Heads ?

I believe some things will forever remain a mystery to me...................

mental illness is sometimes revealed through religious acts

A Barbarian.

"a promise she made to the statue six years ago."

I wonder why she didn't donate the pig heads to poor people instead of the temples? If a poor person was starving to death they wouldn't be given one crumb left from the pig heads.

300 pigs heads would be worth a bit.

I wonder why she didn't donate the pig heads to poor people instead of the temples? If a poor person was starving to death they wouldn't be given one crumb left from the pig heads.

Poor people do go and eat at the temples.

Meh.
As long as it doesn't go to waste, seems fine by me.

Can you imagine the thought process that went on in that woman's head 6 years ago? Let's see, if you help me with this defaulted loan problem that I have, I uh . . . uh . . . I'll give you 10% of the money! No, what am I thinking, that's my money! Uh . . . I'll never do anything stupid again! No, too difficult! Uh . . . oh, I know, I'll offer 300 severed pigs heads! Wow, great idea! No, spirit could resist 300 severed pig's heads! Yeah, that will surly get the spirit's attention.

Gotta love Thai logic!

Third World!

Didn't Lord Buddha promote vegetarianism?

I wonder what Buddha would have had to say about this.

Edited February 20, 201511 yr by TallPalm

If it's "The Year of the Goat" why didn't she offer Goats Heads ?

Not that many goats in Thailand; and if the pigs see that picture, there won't be many pigs either.

ah 2015

and people still believe that ........

this is going to be a smelly to avoid place soon

i think the dead pigs heads have more brain cells than the donor

Edited February 20, 201511 yr by maidee

A woman offered 300 severed pig heads on platters to a Buddha statue

...then the statue spoke: "Thanks, dear woman, but I am full already, I can't manage another morsel, let alone 300 pig heads..., well if you insist, I'll give it my best shot - did you bring any ketchup?"

Third World!

yeah, but with grade A idiots!

gruesam , unestehtic and un-hygienic

Only in Thailand!

Poor pigs, barbaric and inhumane. Pigs are beautiful loving animals if given the opportunity to show it!. The statue can only be appeased by the suffering of innocent animals, what a screwed up concept!

Isn't it the year of the Sheep? Anyway whatever year it is, the Chinese always celebrate with pig meat wherever they are in the world . I guess it's because the animal is in abundance......except maybe Indonesia...

Well at least they wont be be any Muslims there to celebrate

I wonder what Buddha would have had to say about this.

"What the hell is that stench in my temple?"...... thats what id be saying....

i really dont get it.

offering slaughtered pigs heads to buddha ???

buddhas MAIN teaching was about NOT HARMING ANY FORM OF LIFE!!!!

buddha was a noted Vegetarian!!

how on earth does this woman think she will get any sympathy from any form of buddhist deity by offering the exact opposite of what is taught? !!

offering a dead animal to Buddha is as like spitting at the the bank owners in hope they will cancel her loan.

Poor pigs, barbaric and inhumane. Pigs are beautiful loving animals if given the opportunity to show it!. The statue can only be appeased by the suffering of innocent animals, what a screwed up concept!

Maybe you want to pop round there quick with a box of cocktail sticks..... you could prop all their mouths open in a (beautiful)'wallace n gromit' smile.

....id take a gasmask with you...

I wonder why she didn't donate the pig heads to poor people instead of the temples? If a poor person was starving to death they wouldn't be given one crumb left from the pig heads.

Poor people do go and eat at the temples.

Sure they do but they take the food to the temples. Maybe where you live the temples give food to the poor but in all my years here I have lived among the poor and have never seen that happen one time.

How many times have you seen the guys in the temples walking through a village handing out food to the poor? I have never seen it. How many times have you seen these guys in the temple buying poor children shoes or uniforms so they could go to school rather than having to drop out of school because the parents couldn't afford these things? I have never seen it. But I have seen plenty of these guys with smart phones and flying business class.

Edited February 20, 201511 yr by Pimay1

OMG I feel very sorry for the poor animals and as to the woman I see no hope for Thailand while people believe such nonsense.

This is the 'Magic Man' stuff like the little houses with figures you see especially in Issan and suchlike.

Foot binding and concubines are Chinese traditions too, but she ain't got time for none of that, girl 555

Edited February 20, 201511 yr by SiSePuede419

I admire anyone that goes to this much trouble to follow through on a promise. We should all show the effort to deliver on what we say. Good for her.