From Monk.. to Nun

As painful as this may seemed, I just can't help laughing...

Monk uses machete for unkindest cut

Bangkok - A Thai Buddhist monk cut off his penis with a machete because he had an erection during meditation(???) - and declined to have it reattached.

A doctor and a newspaper stated yesterday that the monk said he had renounced all earthly cares.

The 35-year-old monk, whose name was withheld, allowed medical staff at the Maharaj hospital, about 780km south of Bangkok, to dress his wound, but he refused reattachment, hospital chief Prawing Euanontouch said.

"We cleaned up the wound and gave him some stitches, but he declined to have his penis reattached because he said that he had abandoned everything," Prawing said.