Originally Posted by
piwanoi
Maybe a bit of both but its oh so easy to con some one who believes in witch doctors or the occult , and can't even read or write in his own lingo, and who believes that by buying a 200 baht Buddha amulet from some saffron robed parasite it will make them some how immortal when riding a Motor cycle or driving a pickup ain't it
I know this is off topic Pi but I thought you'd like it.
My BiL used to deal in amulets. Anyway, he'd just started doing his stint in the 'Saffron Robe Brigade' and he was doing a deal with this amulet that he believed to be fake. Knowing that I had a gun he wanted to come round to our house, his intention was to place this 'amulet' around a chickens neck and shoot the chicken. If the 'amulet' was genuine the gun would mis-fire etc etc proving it to be a fake.
So he come round the house, no chicken. Due to having joined the 'SRB' he wasn't allowed to kill an animal. So he got me to just fire straight at the 'amulet'. The gun fired and blew the 'amulet' to pieces. Both he and the seller walked off accepting that the 'amulet' was fake and both went their separate ways. Absolutely true story.