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Thai Police on the Hunt for Tourist Caught Kicking Sacred Prayer Bell

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next time give him a bucket to kick.

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  • Big deal. You did invite them over and it's not like he murdered anyone. Authorities could do with spending all this time and resources on something real and useful, like road safety!!

  • It is not about damaged property . It is also not about religion. It is about respects of Thai culture. Do you know what Thais consider of the feet ?

  • Was the bell damaged in any way? if not then just inform temple visitors on how to ring the bells in the future. Funny how religion makes folks irrational.

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Instead of giving this guy a Thai culture course, they better give 85% of the Thais this course, because they have no clue themselves.

If rudeness and stupidity were majors in school, all Thais had been to Oxford and Cambridge

Time to have Centers at every Airport and border checkpoint for a Thai etiquette and culture education course and make it mandatory for Chinese nationals. In case this is not practical just do what you do to Cambodian teenagers.

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Yes kick a bell with you feet and get hunted by the BIB. Pick a mushroom from a national park and get 30 years.

Run over a cop and drag him 200 meters to his death in your Ferrari while you are whacked out on Coke and nothing happens.

Why not try hunting down those responsible for killing or disappearing all of the activists we have seen killed or gone missing over the last decade?

Priorities!!!

It is not about damaged property . It is also not about religion. It is about respects of Thai culture. Do you know what Thais consider of the feet ?

As I said, irrational, culture, superstition, religion, ..... "consider ot the feet" ? yea, can make good money performing foot massage. It is up to the tourism people to inform visitors of any special cultural fetishes.

Would you mind providing your "expert credentials" so that the reader may know what qualifies you as an expert on cultures. In other words, what qualifies you to make these denigrating comments in which you paint something which is a "sacrilege" to the Thai as being a "fetish"? I am a simple person with no fixed religious affiliations, but I do believe in conducting myself with respect to the culture/religions of whatever country in which I live! Kicking the "sacred prayer bell" obviously doesn't bother you, but that does not make it "irrational culture, superstition, religion". The fact is....displaying the bottom of one's foot to another or, as in this case, applying the foot to a sacred object, is blatant disrespect....not only to the Thai but for most, if not all, people of Asian background...INCLUDING the Chinese!! http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en/14Traditions5519.html AND I'll wager that this guy would not leave his chopsticks sticking upright in his leftover bowl of rice back in his home country!!

tourist do not stay that long in chiang mai so he be well gone. most likely thought nothing wrong with doing it. the temple should have a sign like do not wear shoes, do not kick bells, put money in every box,

His behaviour, as so many things in life, is all about context. Just as wearing a bikini would be appropriate in most countries as beach wear, in those same countries it would not be appropriate for entering a church or taking a child to a school concert. Search for Walmart photos to see many examples of inappropriate attire for shopping! Gesturing with your foot or kicking a sacred object is not appropriate here, but kick boxing is performed in a separate context and entirely appropriate. Likewise for kissing an adult and kissing a child in Thailand. Being a successful tourist is all about being sensitive to local culture, or you won't be welcome any more.

I wonder if this would be the same etiquette and cultural class they give foreign teachers. If so then he may learn to wai or what food is popular. But I don't think it would do more than that. They will never stop the insults done by Chinese tourists unless they start to take action criminally or force China to give instructions to all their tourists prior to departing China.

Thailand is beginning to get the quality tourists they wanted so badly now and they don't seem to like that the money makers who spend don't care about little things like etiquette or culture.

This incident is indicative of the super thin skin some of the nationalist idiots here possess. It is a bell. It was not harmed. So what? He was wounded by the lack of etiquette. Has this creep ever heard the expression "water off a ducks back"? Is he trying to pick a fight? Does he have nothing better to do? Is there no crime he can fight? Is he just bored? Does the term loser come to mind?

What about the term "not being able to see the forest beyond the trees"? Does this man possess even one degree of perspective? Why is he so lost?

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It is not about damaged property . It is also not about religion. It is about respects of Thai culture. Do you know what Thais consider of the feet ?

As I said, irrational, culture, superstition, religion, ..... "consider ot the feet" ? yea, can make good money performing foot massage. It is up to the tourism people to inform visitors of any special cultural fetishes.

Would you mind providing your "expert credentials" so that the reader may know what qualifies you as an expert on cultures. In other words, what qualifies you to make these denigrating comments in which you paint something which is a "sacrilege" to the Thai as being a "fetish"? I am a simple person with no fixed religious affiliations, but I do believe in conducting myself with respect to the culture/religions of whatever country in which I live! Kicking the "sacred prayer bell" obviously doesn't bother you, but that does not make it "irrational culture, superstition, religion". The fact is....displaying the bottom of one's foot to another or, as in this case, applying the foot to a sacred object, is blatant disrespect....not only to the Thai but for most, if not all, people of Asian background...INCLUDING the Chinese!! http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en/14Traditions5519.html AND I'll wager that this guy would not leave his chopsticks sticking upright in his leftover bowl of rice back in his home country!!

daoyai is absolutely right and if you can't see that or either continue to ignore the double standard written all over this ridiculous story then it's time for you to enroll in the temple yourself mate for a bit of soul searching because all you are doing now is acting as a one way street apologist. Doesn't a bell ring up there when stories like this get so much attention while murders, rapes, grand theft and extortion hardly get any coverage? Time to wake up Tingtau. One doesn't need to have a PhD to detect double standard, anyone with common sense knows this

Id be more worried about all the litter both Thais and non Thais throw just about everywhere in this sacred Kingdom........

The tour guides herd these Chinese groups around like meat-sacks.

Most seem to be mindless....cutting in line, kicking a bell, blowing snot on the restaurant floor. Forgive them...they are meat-sacks.

Big deal. You did invite them over and it's not like he murdered anyone. Authorities could do with spending all this time and resources on something real and useful, like road safety!!

Actually it is a big deal in Thailand and you could get arrested and deported for something like this.

A few years ago my friend visiting Thailand for the first time were not aware of the buddhist rules inside a temple. He climbed up

the stairs and touched the head of a Buddha statue with his foot. The tour guide and locals saw this and he was chased out of the temple and had to leave the tour group , he was escorted by the police back to his hotel. Nobody wanted to talk to him. He had no clue what he was doing but he learned his lesson.

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Go ahead....run the Chinese off too. Create an international incident over nothing. The greatest achievement of religion is making people stupider.

I was up there a couple of weeks ago and its not like there are signs saying "Dont kick the bells". He was probably unaware it isn't the done thing.

Lol less we forgetting Chinese normally use their legs to do everything ..people choose to use hands to ring it smoothly he chooses to use his legs to kick it for more good luck nothing wrong with that since the bell is not damage is no offense, hey hunting a Chinese who just kicked a bell with his leg for good luck and leaving those rubbing and killing for bad luck ...

Lol less we forgetting Chinese normally use their legs to do everything ..people choose to use hands to ring it smoothly he chooses to use his legs to kick it for more good luck nothing wrong with that since the bell is not damage is no offense, hey hunting a Chinese who just kicked a bell with his leg for good luck and leaving those rubbing and killing for bad luck ...

It is not about damaged property . It is also not about religion. It is about respects of Thai culture. Do you know what Thais consider of the feet ?

A day or two later at the same temple a (Thai) coffee vendor was stabed in the eye by a (Thai) tour guide. I wonder how many people will think this disrespects Buddhism. Not sure I can post the link it's in Chiangmaicitynews.

Not that I think it's ok to kick the bells, but there's always a nationalist racist undertone in these incidents, if you look at it calmly it's a minor incident, but apparently there is an ongoing manhunt. wai2.gif

http://www.chiangmaicitynews.com/news.php?id=4855

He's obviously a musician that's into "Sole" music. whistling.gif

Yes let us make it an absolute priority to catch this guy. Mai ben rai about the everyday road killings, scamming, foreigners committing "suicide", corruption, etc. etc. This is of course a much greater offense and all borders should close immediately.

This perp needs to be taken down. He is dangerous.

hit-the-fan.gif.pagespeed.ce.6UelFDbFNJLChinese tourists were banned from Wat Rong Khun (The White Temple) for half a day because of a bad bathroom behavior. hit-the-fan.gif.pagespeed.ce.6UelFDbFNJL

Thailand has interesting priorities for protecting the Thai culture.

Kicking prayer bell - #1 Criminal

Military Coups - Amnesty

Chinese kick prayer bell - Deport

Overthrow democratic regime of government - Reform

I saw a documentary on a guy with no arms once, he eats with a knife and folk with his feet, smokes with his feet, casts his fishing rod with his feet. Another bit of useless information for you.

I saw a documentary on a guy with no arms once, he eats with a knife and folk with his feet, smokes with his feet, casts his fishing rod with his feet. Another bit of useless information for you.

..and he rings the bell with his face.

Hope they find the idiot and then "kick him out of the country" although he has probably already gone home.

He is lucky Thailand is not a strict Muslim Country, in such places, he may well have lost his foot if he'd kicked a Muslim Religious object.

IMO this has nothing to do with religion, superstition or even feet. it has to do with respect. The person was a visitor to this country, thus he has to show respect to Thai culture. What would y'all say if someone would do something like this in, let's say, a church in the USA, GB or wherever. The same outrage would occur I am certain. So just show respect and decent courtesy while visiting (or living in) another country.

You wanted the Chinese's Tourist you got them.......now deal with it!

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