Pipeaway Newsletter #143: On Black Friday, shoppers forget human decency and perform insatiable, almost animalistic product hunts. Sort of like Lopburi monkeys on their day.
This town northeast of Bangkok has 60,000 human residents, and 3,000 monkeys sharing the territory. The presence of the latter was so overpowering that Lopburi quickly became known as the Monkey Town.
An October dawn spills over the Jor Soo Gong Naka Shrine in Phuket, bathing the gathered crowds in soft light. A barely teenage boy stands still while a father-figure man attaches a flower garland ...