Saffron shocker! This travelling monk should have stayed back in the temple

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Saffron shocker! This travelling monk should have stayed back in the temple

 

Image: Thairath

 

UDON THANI: -- A travelling monk came from Nong Khai to Udon on the train and ended up attracting the attention of local cops not once but twice before he was finally locked up. He seemed to be addicted to "Ya Satree Penpark" a medicine taken by irregularly menstruating women as a pick me up.

 

But the medicine had picked him up and dumped him down in a drunken heap both during the night at the train station and later at a restaurant, reported Thairath.

 

Phra Khampong Phreuthong first came to the attention of the Udon constabulary at 12.30am when the stationmaster at Udon station called them to deal with a man in robes burbling incoherently on a train. 

 

He was taken to the station where the medicine for women was found hidden amongst his robes. He was very drunk but said he took the Ya Satree as medicine.

 

He had apparently travelled on the train from Nong Khai and was headed for Khon Kaen but couldn't tell the police what temple he was based at. He didn't have a monk's ID just a regular Thai ID card.

 

It was decided to defrock him there and then and a lay helper was called who brought him civilian clothes to put on. He donned the regular clothes and promptly urinated in his trousers before wandering off into the night.

 

At 9.30 am a vegetarian restaurant owner called police to say that a monk was making a nuisance of himself. Police arrived and were surprised to see that he had got some more robes from somewhere in the meantime. 

 

He was slumped at a table with another bottle of Ya Satree on the table.

 

This time the cops dragged him in and locked him up in the cells to sleep it off. They said they would let him go when he had sobered up.

 

Source: Thairath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2016-08-12

[NongKhaiKid]

Saffron shocker,   hardly  !

It says he was defrocked immediately but by whom,  a lay helper brought civvy clothes but surely doesn't have the authority to do anything official so perhaps when he was re-arrested he was still a monk.

Allowed to sleep it off and that's that   ?

[colinneil]

Hardly newsworthy, silly bugger got drunk, hardly the crime of the century.

At least he was not stealing/ cheating like a lot of other monks.

[ezzra]

And I say the many so called monks should not be in a temple in the first place, and more

and more of them are nowadays  using the sanctity of the holy place for their  ulterior motives....

[Artisi]

4 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Hardly newsworthy, silly bugger got drunk, hardly the crime of the century.

At least he was not stealing/ cheating like a lot of other monks.

Are you sure? 

[seahorse]

Where is it possible to obtain this Ya Satree. then? Asking for a friend...

[Andrew65]

18 minutes ago, ezzra said:

And I say the many so called monks should not be in a temple in the first place, and more

and more of them are nowadays  using the sanctity of the holy place for their  ulterior motives....

A bit like some Catholics then!?

[PatOngo]

13 minutes ago, seahorse said:

Where is it possible to obtain this Ya Satree. then? Asking for a friend...

 

Is it that time of the month for you ? Or your friend?

[monkey4u]

This guy is a class act pissing his pants 

[lemonjelly]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

And I say the many so called monks should not be in a temple in the first place, and more

and more of them are nowadays  using the sanctity of the holy place for their  ulterior motives....

He's not a monk, just masquerading as one. He has no monk ID and could not name his temple of residence.

[poohy]

monk drunk pisses pants defrocked redresses as monk gets arrested  ...gets let off

woman in see through skirt ..... mass outrage

 

[SOTIRIOS]

....satu....!!!

 

...seems more like the rule...rather than the exception...sadly....

[tuanku]

In the West he would probably be in an institution, and not a religious one.

[sahibji]

is he a monk really? monks have revered place in Thai society and actions of this person blemish the image of monks.

[Acharn]

9 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

He's not a monk, just masquerading as one. He has no monk ID and could not name his temple of residence.

Also, if he was a monk he wouldn't be travelling. Monks are supposed to stay in their home temple, or at least the temple where they happen to be at the start of the "Buddhist Lent," which basically is the time of the rainy season as it was in Northern India 2,500 years ago.

[Acharn]

5 hours ago, sahibji said:

is he a monk really? monks have revered place in Thai society and actions of this person blemish the image of monks.

Yes, but most Thais understand that monks are human, too. As was the Buddha, by the way. So they're offended, but it's not a capital offense. My guess is he's not a monk, but I don't know what the law is on impersonating a monk. I know there is a law about it, but none of the details.

[nausea]

7 hours ago, tuanku said:

In the West he would probably be in an institution, and not a religious one.

Actually, that's quite perceptive. Traditionally Thai families would offload "difficult" members onto the Wat. The Wat in Thailand took the place of Social Services.

[tuanku]

8 minutes ago, nausea said:

Actually, that's quite perceptive. Traditionally Thai families would offload "difficult" members onto the Wat. The Wat in Thailand took the place of Social Services.

They do the same with unwanted pets

[khaowong1]

2 hours ago, Acharn said:

Also, if he was a monk he wouldn't be travelling. Monks are supposed to stay in their home temple, or at least the temple where they happen to be at the start of the "Buddhist Lent," which basically is the time of the rainy season as it was in Northern India 2,500 years ago.

 

they can travel during this period, but have to be back at their designated temple before sun down.