Im all for honoring and understanding cultures around the world. Im a live and let live kind of guy, but this just seems like an accident waiting to happen.

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Devotees of the Chinese Shrine Bang Neow march in a procession at the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 4. The festival celebrates vegetarianism and calls on devotees through acts of mortification to purify themselves as they take on the sins of the community.