Idiot ruins Loy Krathong spirit by stealing cash from people's floats

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Idiot ruins Loy Krathong spirit by stealing cash from people's floats (VIDEO)
By Coconuts Bangkok



BANGKOK: -- These poor people in the video who celebrated Loy Krathong last night had to watch their hopes and dreams being crushed (and bad luck restored to their souls) after a careless thief raided their krathong for money.

A video of a man wearing a flashlight hat and casually knocking down people’s krathong to steal money right in front of their eyes went viral today.

"This is his part-time job? He knocked down my flowers," someone said in the video.

"He has just ruined people's dreams and beliefs!" another narrated.

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2015/11/25/idiot-ruins-loy-krathong-spirit-stealing-cash-peoples-floats-video


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2015-11-26

[harada]

Nothing new here, I've seen it at every Loy Kratong celebration that I've been to.

[piersbeckett]

Nothing new here, I've seen it at every Loy Kratong celebration that I've been to.

Yep - I saw it at Hua Hin last year.

[Somtamnication]

The idiot last night was telling everyone he can make the kratong go further. lol

[trogers]

Should send him to Saudi Arabia...

[fruitman]

Funny that they just accepted it. But i didn't know they put money on the kratongs. In BKK we have kratongs made of bread with a small candle. Also there's some fireworks for the kids but that's all.

[Jessi]

The Thai people have lost their way. You would never see a thing like this years back.

All being caused by GREED & CORRUPTION.

[smutcakes]

Funny that they just accepted it. But i didn't know they put money on the kratongs. In BKK we have kratongs made of bread with a small candle. Also there's some fireworks for the kids but that's all.

People in BKK put money on their Kratongs to, normally just a copper or two. Not sure where you celebrate it but every place i have been in BKK for Lk has been exactly the same as elsewhere in the country. Kratongs made of leaves and flowers with candled on top and coin on. And the obligatory children swimming to pilfer money.

[SoilSpoil]

This was already going on 20 years ago. Bottom feeders. Put some 10 baht coins in the Kratong and put some super glue on it.

[jaiyenyen]

Watched the same thing last night at our local temple in northern Bangkok. Four people using car inner tubes as floats picked money out of the floats and tossed them aside.

Disgusting behaviour, or modern Thainess?.......You choose.

These were not children. They were adults.

Edited November 25, 2015 by jaiyenyen

[Rocceao]

Who is the real idiot?

The guy securing the money that was discarded in the river or the people who discarded their money in the river in the first place.

The guy is not stealing anything!

Chinese Buddhists use counterfeit money when making offerings to their deity or forwarding money to the ancestors.

You can purchase this offerings money at most Chinese shops.

Edited November 25, 2015 by Rocceao

[rkidlad]

I don't really see the problem and thought this was just the norm.

I watched as some kids took the 7 baht out of my kratong. Does this mean my wish won't come true?

7 baht I invested that I'll never see again. Selfish kids.

[ezzra]

Those are not idiots, those are Thai people, and this is what they do.... not to say that this is unique

to Thailand, people with self entitlements demands are everywhere, they call them thieves...

And beside, Loy Krathong has already been ruined by the government of no booze edict, and time past,

I recall many years ago LK was a real holiday to look forward to, not much left out of it now...

Edited November 25, 2015 by ezzra

[doremifasol]

Why everything has to be sensationalized?

When we let go of something that means is gone, no one is stealing anything.

Would it be different if the "thief" was a beggar on the street waiting for our compassion?

As a matter of fact I see the boy in gray T-shirt placing a banknote from his wallet

knowing that the "thief" is there collecting it. Good.

[Bluespunk]

What did those putting the money in krathongs think was going to happen to it?

Buddha doesn't need or want it.

[EnzoRippo]

What did those putting the money in krathongs think was going to happen to it?

Buddha doesn't need or want it.

Buddha is not Shiva, he has only 2 hands => not so convenient to take all the coins in all the khratongs in Thailand.

So you are right, what the best and the most compassionnal / Buddhist? Make the coins finish in the pound or "give" them to a poor chap?

Edited November 25, 2015 by EnzoRippo

[apetley]

Recycling surely?

[Happy Grumpy]

Surprised that

1) there aren't machete fights between the people stealing the money over who gets to steal from each krathong.

2) The temples and parks don't secretly 'rent out' the water and demand 10% commission on all takings.

[EnglishJohn]

I bet there are thousands of Thais watching the rivers today to do that very same thing.

Where is the cutoff where it does not restore bad luck to their souls ?. Midnight ?.

[impulse]

Is this an endeavor restricted to Thai's or can Cheap Charlie's get in on the action?

[harrycallahan]

Radio triggered 'firecracker' would sort them out.

[SABloke]

Normally these guys float 50m downstream...everybody knows and nobody cares. Why the sudden outrage? All this guy did was act more efficiently: he cut out floatation costs and reduced the catchment area (usually affected by Krathong Tidal Dispersion or KTD as it's called by industry experts) and therefore increased profitability >_>

[ubonrthai]

Last night in Ubon, one guy would literally grab it within seconds of someone putting it in the water, take the money, and then push it out in the open water. lol

[steven100]

ah .... all good at Loy Khatong ! thainess in Thailand ..... the guy must be from Burma or Lao !!

[prakhonchai nick]

The Thai people have lost their way. You would never see a thing like this years back.

All being caused by GREED & CORRUPTION.

It was common on Jomtien Beach 28 years ago, when I first arrived in LOS....and still is

Would be far better if no money was put in these floating objects, but that would not please the ordinary Thai folk, as they like to BUY their future and good luck!

Som Nom Na!

[desi]

At the bottom of this post is a photo of a guy who was doing it last year.

http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/loi-krathong-yee-peng-an-unexpected-pleasure-in-chiang-mai/

[prakhonchai nick]

What did those putting the money in krathongs think was going to happen to it?

Buddha doesn't need or want it.

Neither does he need all the offerings made daily in his name. Let the robed brigade work for their food and lodgings!

[DrTuner]

Cash on krathong? Well that's just stupid and deserves to be collected by somebody more savvy.

[cyberfarang]

The Thai people have lost their way. You would never see a thing like this years back.

All being caused by GREED & CORRUPTION.

You couldn`t have looked hard enough.

14 years ago in Chiang Mai we let float our krathongs with 10 baht notes on them. A little further down river 2 women with long hooked poles pulling in the krathongs onto the river bank and taking the money. That was the first and the last time for me.

[pgrahmm]

Those are not idiots, those are Thai people, and this is what they do.... not to say that this is unique

to Thailand, people with self entitlements demands are everywhere, they call them thieves...

And beside, Loy Krathong has already been ruined by the government of no booze edict, and time past,

I recall many years ago LK was a real holiday to look forward to, not much left out of it now...

All around Thailand people were quietly observing their holiday....Making - Floating Kratongs - candles on and around their houses - a couple of floating lanterns & and a few with fireworks....No Drunks to be seen......

Want to see entitlement? → Go to CM or any city that has/caters to the drunken orgy of partying that westerners have brought into the the Thai's holiday observance ..... Which was not meant to have alcohol in the first place......

Yep → that's entitlement → take and subvert an religious observance hundreds of years old injecting farang alcoholics partying away → then complaining how someone took THEIR alcohol out of a ceremony that didn't have any to begin with.....

Without a clue of the spirit of the holiday....Just something pretty to put in the air or buy to float - a lark - a party.....

Ahhh The irony of entitlement.....

Edited November 26, 2015 by pgrahmm