The chief priest (41) of a Buddhist temple resolved in an act of Buddhist compassion to burn out a nest of wasps, and in doing so duly had his temple smitten and reduced to ashes, destroying the entire temple complex.
The priest was infuriated by the nuisance a nest of wasps was causing, it having been established in a closet in the temple’s dining hall, with the wasps regularly and uninvitedly calling in for tea. His rage that of an Ashura, he resolved to punish the defiling insects with purifying flames.
He took a bamboo stave, set the end on fire, and proceeded to go about setting the hive aflame.
However, this was not agreeable to the wasps, which launched a spirited counterattack, swarming and stinging the unprotected man, and putting him to flight, giving chase.
In his rush to flee the frenzied insects, he cast away his flaming staff, and it soon caused the building to catch light.
With the temple complex being of wooden construction, the flames soon spread and a general conflagration ensued, emergency services being too late to do aught but sift the ashes.
The would be exterminator suffered not only stings but burns to his face and other parts of his body, as you can see above, but his injuries are far from life threatening.
Police have questioned the priest, though it seems charges will not be forthcoming.
Via Itainews.
As even the average halfwit knows, wasp’s nests are highly dangerous affairs, with their denizens prone to persistently chase down and aggressively chastise any interlopers – perhaps he was counting on the divine protection of Buddha? If so, perhaps he should have paid more attention to his teachings…
You’re pathetic if you think your childish little write up is funny.
What scathing words. You are either a Buddhist, or a wasp-lover, I take it?
You should’ve heard what 2ch’s response was like…
Why are you so upset?
does this fit you?
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/
Hailing from where he did I think he might’ve had a rather more directly religious reason for taking offence.
Someone’s butthurt~
heh, I remember something similar on Something Awful a while back, dude had a wasp/bee’s nest hanging off a backyard swing set, so he lit a giant fire under it. Though he was smart and made it so he could run once the fire was set. >__>
I would pile a bunch of sticks under the nest, uncoil a line starting from the sticks to where I would stand far far away, strike a match and wait for my *BOOM*.
Isn’t it smarter to call an exterminator or use smoke to smoke out the wasps?
Seeing as he was willing to kill with fire, couldn’t he have just used a pesticide spray or fogger?