News Forum - Monk allegedly fires shots at residents in Northern Thailand

[Thaiger]

A monk allegedly fired shots at residents nearby a temple in the northern province Mae Hong Son yesterday. Reports say the monk fled the scene, but was later found and forced to leave monkhood. Officers searched the monk’s living quarters and found airsoft guns with equipment to modify the pellet guns as well as ammunition. The monk had gotten into an argument over land ownership, a community leader told Thai media. The suspect and other 4 monks were clearing the land, claiming that the Doi Ja Tee Temple owned the property.  But apparently, the land was public property and residents tried to […]

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[Dedinbed]

3 hours ago, Thaiger said:

A monk allegedly fired shots at residents nearby a temple in the northern province Mae Hong Son yesterday.

Shouting " go ahead monk , make my day ! ..

[HolyCowCm]

Ah the good old days with BB and pellet guns. When we were kids we used to have BB and Pellet gun team like war games. Now kids do it online. Time for this monk to go back to reality real world now.  

[joseph]

Yes, I remember shooting "friends" with BB guns. We loaded the barrel with strike anywhere matches to light them up.....yes, the good old days. I often wonder how we survived without helmets while riding bicycles.    

[vlad]

Luxury, we could only afford Spud guns.

[Fluke]

4 minutes ago, vlad said:

Luxury, we could only afford Spud guns.

We could nt even afford spuds , let along spud guns

[kalyan]

daily there is an incident about monks, mostly bad incidents, the people who are suppose to teach discipline do not learn discipline properly.

This all goes to their teachers who made them as monks.

People will loose faith on monks if such type of incidents continue unchecked.

 

 

[HiuMak]

On 2/22/2022 at 8:48 AM, kalyan said:

daily there is an incident about monks, mostly bad incidents, the people who are suppose to teach discipline do not learn discipline properly.

This all goes to their teachers who made them as monks.

People will loose faith on monks if such type of incidents continue unchecked.

too many examples of rouge monks

[palooka]

Might be a relative of Putin.

Putin likes to take over other peoples'  lands with guns.