If you thought you'd heard it all with Lorain Bobbitt, think again...seems a Monk, disturbed at getting an erection during his meditation WHACKED THAT SUCKER OFF, and with a machete no less. It's a GUY THING, but I winced when I read the story. Any thoughts I EVER HAD of joining a monastery, running around in a brown robe and drinking really great ale ARE GONE, out the window with this story. Gives a whole new meaning to taking a vow of Celibacy! Even funnier...this penis whacking occured in Bangkok! You have to love it, could not make up news any more off beat.
Buddhist monk cuts off penis and renounces refix
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_life_thailand_monk
Wed Nov 22, 6:23 AM ET
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai Buddhist monk cut off his penis with a machete because he had an erection during meditation and declined to have it reattached, saying he had renounced all earthly cares, a doctor and a newspaper said on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old monk, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, allowed medical staff at Maharaj hospital, 780 km (480 miles) south of Bangkok to dress his wound, but refused reattachment, hospital chief Prawing Euanontouch said.
"We cleaned up the wound, gave him some stitches, but he declined to have it reattached because he said he had abandoned everything," Prawing told Reuters by telephone.
Prawing declined to comment on the monk's erection, which Bangkok-based Kom Chad Luk tabloid reported on its Web site.
Buddhist monk cuts off penis and renounces refix
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_life_thailand_monk
Wed Nov 22, 6:23 AM ET
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai Buddhist monk cut off his penis with a machete because he had an erection during meditation and declined to have it reattached, saying he had renounced all earthly cares, a doctor and a newspaper said on Wednesday.
The 35-year-old monk, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, allowed medical staff at Maharaj hospital, 780 km (480 miles) south of Bangkok to dress his wound, but refused reattachment, hospital chief Prawing Euanontouch said.
"We cleaned up the wound, gave him some stitches, but he declined to have it reattached because he said he had abandoned everything," Prawing told Reuters by telephone.
Prawing declined to comment on the monk's erection, which Bangkok-based Kom Chad Luk tabloid reported on its Web site.
