This One
Will definitely leave a mark.
Posted on 03/14/2024 4:24:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man in Thailand who went on a violent rampage at a temple in the Chonburi province died after being impaled by a Buddha statue.
On Feb 27, the 49-year-old man, who went by the name Ek, had taken methamphetamine in the temple with his friend - a monk at the temple who goes by the name Best, reported Thai media outlet Thaiger.
Ek then attacked Best with a fluorescent tube. While the latter ran away to seek help, Ek went on to smash statues in the temple, before fleeing into the main hall.
When the police arrived at the temple, Ek had locked all the doors and windows in the main hall, preventing officers from entering.
As they suspected Ek might have a weapon, the police waited outside and attempted to convince Ek to surrender himself.
However, there was no response from the man.
When they broke down the door and entered the main hall, the police found Ek lying in a pool of blood, with a Buddha statue pierced through his chest.
According to investigations, he had tried to climb and deface the largest statue in the hall but slipped and fell, landing on the sharp end of another statue below, South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday (March 13).
The statue's head had pierced his heart and lungs.
According to residents in the Banbung district of the province, Ek had stayed with Best at the temple for a few days before the incident, Thaiger reported.
Best told the police that he took drugs with Ek and agreed to leave the monkhood for his misconduct.
Now there’s a headline you don’t see every day.
There’s some dark irony here.
Karma in action
“I thought Buddha was peaceful.”
Kind of how I wish the US was - peaceful, but don’t f- with us.
You win the thread!
LOL
Moral: never mess with a Buddha statue (or one of Kaiser Wilhelm wearing a helmet).
The night was chaotic and Confucius...
Karma.
L
Hmm. Bet he won’t ever do that again.
I thought the meth heads around here were top tier. I wonder what Ek’s teeth looked like.
Pickelhaube.
Must have been deficient in zen.
Buddacide?
Karma is definitely a bee-och. Don’t mess with Buddha.
I wonder what their teaching on reincarnation is when you do meth in a temple and wind up impaling yourself on a statue of Buddha.
“This has never happened before. There’s nothing in the manual.”
Isn’t Thailand a death penalty for drugs country?
THats a good Buddhist joke.
No he shouldn’t do it again in future lives.
Unless he has a insoluable karmic loop.
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