Thai Red Cross wants bloody-minded donors for Halloween

Thai Red Cross wants bloody-minded donors for Halloween

Manful Bumroongton, front, and Thanat Chotrat dressed in a ghost costume for Halloween take a blood test before donating blood at the Thai Red Cross in Bangkok on Wednesday. (AP photo)
Manful Bumroongton, front, and Thanat Chotrat dressed in a ghost costume for Halloween take a blood test before donating blood at the Thai Red Cross in Bangkok on Wednesday. (AP photo)

Thailand's Red Cross Society may not measure its blood supplies by the bucket, but it knows how to throw a Halloween party.

Thanat Chotrat (second from left) and Manful Bumroongton (third from left) talk to a volunteer blood donor at the Thai Red Cross in Bangkok. (AP photo)

Hoping that the annual gusto for gore would inspire donors, the society's National Blood Centre had staff and volunteers dress up Wednesday as ghosts, monsters and witches and other characters straight out of Monster Chiller Horror Theater.

Thanat Chotrat enters the Halloween spirit before donating blood at the Thai Red Cross in Bangkok on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

The donation room was festooned with faux spider webs and plastic bats of the blood-sucking kind. At a minimum, nurses had horns or bat wings attached to their hats; others had macabre face paint, and a few gung-ho ghouls went all out in full dress as witches, ghosts and creatures of indeterminate monstrosity.

The Red Cross says the need for donated blood grows by 8-10% a year.

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