Buddhist monk caught in fistfight with drunk youths

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Abbot, drunk youths in punch-up

Published: 12 Mar 2013 at 11.38
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A 57-year-old abbot was involved in a fistfight with a group of drunken youths at a gas station in Ubon Ratchathani province, a Thai Rath report said on Tuesday.

People give offerings to Buddhist monks. (File Photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd)

Phra Prasert Sriluan, the abbot of Wat Tha Chang Nok in Ubon Ratchathani, said that he drove a car to the pump before going out to beg for alms because there was no one available to drive it for him. He later bought some items at a convenience store.

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SawGeorge
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Discussion 3 : 12 Mar 2013 at 14.473
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It shows that people are becoming less tolerant in all things ...be it businesses, politics, faiths and love affairs and to add up with, within families too. Can we imagine which way are we heading to? and at the same time what can we do to stop this menace???
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Discussion 2 : 12 Mar 2013 at 12.342
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Monk breaking vows ,youths drunk in public and beating a monk .We are so morally lost .
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Discussion 1 : 12 Mar 2013 at 12.181
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Some people say that it was just hidden, but I disagree: Thailand was NOT this violent when I arrive (1981).

This is bad news and worse, a bad trend...
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