Rocket Festival Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand 10 May 2009 Part 1 of 2

The narrative about the betting is not entirely correct. As a wager you can only bet the "over" of the seconds given be the bookie. The seconds represent the time from take-off to when the finished rocket hits the ground. My reference to the young man being shot in the head during the festival (not shown) should have been as follows; the shooter and the victim had been in high school together. There was a dispute about a girl they both new. On this day the shooter came from another village and when a rocket went off he walked over to the victim and shot him in the side narrowly missing his liver. (the victim is recovering.) in the meantime to shooter ran through the village and escaped into the jungle. I saw the chase because they went right by my wife's family house. Pretty dramatic really.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXX-JB3uB2w&hl=en
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