webfact Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Woman thanks statue with 300 pig headsBy Coconuts BangkokBANGKOK: -- 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.Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2015/02/20/woman-thanks-statue-300-pig-heads-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-02-20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pattaya28 Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 If it's "The Year of the Goat" why didn't she offer Goats Heads ? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Always18 Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 I believe some things will forever remain a mystery to me................... 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post daoyai Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 mental illness is sometimes revealed through religious acts 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post iReason Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 A Barbarian. "a promise she made to the statue six years ago." 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Morakot Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pimay1 Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krisb Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 300 pigs heads would be worth a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post krisb Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 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. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BeforeTigers Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 Meh.As long as it doesn't go to waste, seems fine by me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fiddlesticks Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 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! 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockman Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Third World! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post apetley Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 Didn't Lord Buddha promote vegetarianism? 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TallPalm Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) I wonder what Buddha would have had to say about this. Edited February 20, 2015 by TallPalm 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmsally Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maidee Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) 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, 2015 by maidee 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klauskunkel Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 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?" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lupatria Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 Third World! yeah, but with grade A idiots! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mango66 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 gruesam , unestehtic and un-hygienic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kwaussie Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 Only in Thailand! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post strapper1 Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 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! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumply Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post White Christmas13 Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 Well at least they wont be be any Muslims there to celebrate 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomYumpoochai Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 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.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post easybullet3 Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 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. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomYumpoochai Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 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... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimay1 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) 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, 2015 by Pimay1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English 1 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiSePuede419 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) Foot binding and concubines are Chinese traditions too, but she ain't got time for none of that, girl 555 Edited February 20, 2015 by SiSePuede419 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post stoli Posted February 20, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 20, 2015 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. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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