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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/s...94-954,00.html

• Buddhist monks 'slashed, beat taxi driver'
  From correspondents in Phnom Penh
  
  July 18, 2006
  This article from : AAP
  
  FOUR gambling Cambodian monks were charged with serious assault after they allegedly slashed and beat a taxi driver who tried to cash in his winning hand and go home, police said.
  
  Police chief of Kien Svay district just outside the capital, Mang Pech, said motorbike taxi driver Meas Buntheng, 29, had been playing cards with the monks last week at their pagoda when he decided to take his winnings and go home.
  
  "The monks did not want him to stop playing and leave, as he had won around 50 cents from each of them, so they lost their tempers," Mr Pech said.
  
  "Three of them beat him with the poles used to beat the pagoda's sacred gong, and another one returned with a cleaver and chopped him 14 times."
  
  He said Mr Buntheng remained in a critical condition in hospital.
  
  The four Buddhist monks had been disrobed and were being held in custody facing assault charges. If convicted they face up to 10 years in jail.
  
  "Both sides got angry with each other, but it was the monks who inflicted the injuries. Monks are not permitted to play cards. Monks cannot behave like this. This is against our tradition," Mr Pech said.

In Cambodia, lay people become monks for some period of their life, i.e., being a monk is a temporary thing. It is most common for young men to enter the monastery for a year or so. Likewise, older people who have raised their children and been widowed will often become monks. I'd wager that these monks were all young guys. Young guys getting into fights related to gambling? Shocking, it never happens here in the more civilized US, right?