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Old Feb 20, 2015, 3:56 am
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Is this the weirdest thing I've seen here? Not sure, but it's up there in the top 10...I'm sure the Lord Buddha is rolling his eyes...Thainess.


Woman thanks statue with 300 pig heads

A woman offered 300 severed pig heads on platters to a Buddha statue in western Bangkok yesterday to mark the Year of Goat and thank it for spiritual help with a defaulted loan.

Sombat Lekpiam, 59, a Rachaburi fruit merchant, traveled with her family to Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Pathom with two pickup trucks loaded with pig heads to make good on a promise she made to the statue six years ago.
At that time she had promised the Buddha image she would present it the 300 heads if a debtor would return THB2 million to her.

After the ceremony, Sombat donated the pig heads to several temples, Thairath reported.

http://bangkok.coconuts.co//2015/02/...-300-pig-heads
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