[322] in Humor
HUMOR: "I didn't know she was dead"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 14 11:25:03 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 11:21:00 EDT
Date: 14 Jun 1994 10:58:55 +0500
From: "Sharalee Field" <sharalee@planning.mit.edu>
From: mjcarley@unix2.tcd.ie (Michael Carley)
Subject: "I didn't know she was dead"
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 13:18:54 GMT
From The Nation(Indonesia) via Private Eye(London)
"I am a saintly man. Things are never what they seem," protested Thai
monk Samai Parnthong to a Bangkok court. "It was dark and she did not
resist my advances. I did not know she had been dead for three days."
Parnthong, who has since been expelled from his monastery, admitted to
committing a variety of sexual acts with a corpse. Bum Wo, prosecuting
counsel, told the judge:"The dead woman's relations were midway through
the third night of mourning and prayer in the Rassadorn Pathong temple
when they heard sounds of splitting wood. Discovering Parnthong on top
of the corpse, theybegan beating him senseless while shouting: `He is
damaging the coffin, kill him, kill him.' His life was only saved by the
police, who placed him under arrest."
Parnthong was fined 500 baht for creating a public nuisance while drunk,
and given two years in prison for damaging the coffin. Necrophilia is
not an offence in Thailand.
