Funeral for lizard believed to be son

the Beaufort Gazette ^ | 04/14/03 | AP

[SquirrelKing]

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A woman in central Thailand held a funeral for a monitor lizard believed to have been the reincarnation of her 12-year-old son, who died in a road accident nearly two years ago, a report said Monday. Jamlong Taengnian, 53, and her relatives gathered at the family's house on the outskirts of Bangkok for the ceremony following the death of the reptile Saturday afternoon, The Nation newspaper reported.

A photo of Jamlong's deceased son, Charoen, was placed beside the reptile's lifeless body. "I am so sad. I feel as if I have lost my son a second time," Jamlong was quoted as saying.

Hundreds of people had visited the house in Nonthaburi, 6 miles north of Bangkok, in recent years to see the lizard allegedly possessed by the dead boy's spirit and thought to bring good luck.

The lizard was first found lying under a photograph of Charoen during his funeral in June 2001 and reportedly followed the boy's parents to their home.

Jamlong named the lizard Yui, her son's nickname, and allowed it to sleep in her bed and gave the lizard milk and yoghurt, her son's favorite foods, reports said.

Monitor lizards, which have gray skin marked by yellowish scales, live near water and are good swimmers and tree climbers. They are not aggressive.

[SquirrelKing]

There will be a similar hadline when Saddam is finally run to ground.

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[Illbay]

I wonder how old it was when it died, in "Monitor Lizard Years"?

[w_over_w]

funy = funny
series = serious
hugh = huge
bomging = bombing

and now . . . hadline = headline

I've said this before . . . why do we have to have all these code words?

I'm going to go take a shower . . .

[Conspiracy Guy]

Surely it was Chirac and not her beloved son. What do these people smoke?

[Blue Screen of Death]

That's nothing. My neighbor has a backward baseball hatted, slack jawed, belly button pierced, tatooed, live at home, unemployed, TV watching son that he believes is a lizard.

[Arpege92]

I didn't know they cloned in Bangkok!

[capitan_refugio]

Hey! Wasn't Jerry Van Dyke's mother a 1928 Porter?

(I date my self with that obscure television reference.)

[TopQuark]

Cloned? You must've meant "clowned."

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Here, hold muh monitor lizard...

[dfwgator]

"I am the Lizard King, I can do anything."

[ZULU]

"gave the lizard milk and yoghurt"

Monitor lizards eat meat - they are predators. Her "kindness" probably killed it.

[GSWarrior]

Radioactive worms discovering sex, deceased children returning as lizards? Is this a slow news day?

[SwinneySwitch]

Allan Colmes looks like a Lizard/Boy to me!!

[Constitution Day]

Crap, you beat me.

[Slings and Arrows]

I'm not dead!

[babble-on]

My Mother the Car

[CaptainJustice]

Bwahahaha.... "Jamlong"....

[Sockdologer]

Okay :P Where did this shower comment originate?