Surin villagers demand ouster of ‘drunk’ abbot

By The Nation

 

SURIN: -- Some 100 villagers rallied at a temple in Surin’s Sangkla district on Thursday morning to demand the removal of an abbot who they said was always drunk.

 

But the abbot of Wat Klang Ban Sangkla had fled the area on Wednesday night.

 

Villagers was led by Jirakit Srisai, chief of Tambon Sangkla, came to the temple to meet district officials, police and district monastic chief in an effort to defrock the abbot, Phra Kru Wimol Kittisan.

 

When they entered the temple, they found several empty liquor bottles.

 

The tambon chief and villagers said they had become fed up with the abbot for always being drunk. The abbot recently had been caught on video getting drunk with the clip being widely shared on Facebook, further angering local villagers.

 

Jirakit said the abbot had always claimed that he drank an herbal medicine.

 

Following the rally, the monastic district chief and monastic tambon chief voted to defrock the monk in absentia.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30321979

 

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4 minutes ago, webfact said:

When they entered the temple, they found several empty liquor bottles.

 

Just another day at the office !  

Good for them, a shame this but all religions need to clean house it seems.

Isn't all booze herbal in its makeup, hops, malt, grain, water etc

 

17 hours ago, webfact said:

But the abbot of Wat Klang Ban Sangkla had fled the area on Wednesday night

Obviously just nipped out for a pint.

4 minutes ago, BigBadGeordie said:

Obviously just nipped out for a pint.

He's gone down to the shop to get a few lao khao .... 

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Surin villagers demand ouster of ‘drunk’ abbot

He was probably too drunk to clearly speak the winning lottery numbers.

6 minutes ago, Lupatria said:

He was probably too drunk to clearly speak the winning lottery numbers.

      he said ... blur bla blub ...  hic . hic ..  and they went out and bought the wrong numbers  ....

19 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

 

Just another day at the office !  

This is one of the rare occasions were i feel the itch to use the famous phrase:

"It happens elsewhere too"

The web designers of the Nation must also had a couple of drinks when they placed an ad of a software company right in the middle of the article saying:

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