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Run No:- |
1048 |
Date:- 21 April 2003 |
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Location:- |
Railway Park |
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Hare:- |
Teerachai and Alastair Atkinson |
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Scribe:- |
Peter 'Maverick' Laverick |
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Town runs always bring out a big crowd, and yesterday's run at Chatuchak was no exception. No less than eight of us met up outside Morchit station and squeezed into two cabs for the last mile to the Railway Park (nee Railway Golf Course) where the throng was beginning to gather. The place where the Hash normally assembles has become a restricted area, but most driving hashers managed to circumvent the restrictions. Pitak's piss truck had to complete one circuit before it found its way in. While we were waiting for the run to start a parking attendant came to move us on, but Noriega told him that he was a Burmese warlord and unless the parking attendant wanted to become another statistic in Taksin's war on drugs he should let us stay where we were (or words to that effect).
The run was to be a live hare run by the Pink Panther (Teerachai), assisted by Beefeater Alastair. However, despite more and more runners arriving, by 5:30 there was still no sign of the hare, alive or dead. Narest called him up and the truth was revealed - the hare was stuck in a traffic jam. We didn't learn where the traffic jam was, but the fact the hare was alive and well seemed to soothe the pack. Five minutes later the hare arrived dressed in a suit. We could tell how late it was getting as not long after that George 'of the jungle' Morgan arrived, amazed to find the pack still standing around.
Eventually the hare and co-hare set off, and after the GM timed ten minutes while showing off his brand new running shoes the pack set off in pursuit. The hares had decided to forego the usual route through the three parks, and headed west instead. After a stretch of road passing 'rot tour' buses preparing for their overnight journeys to the far-flung corners of the Kingdom we turned left and someone commented that we had reached some greenery. I hope they enjoyed it, as it wasn't long before we were walking over a mini-rubbish dump and then across another road and into the maze of railway lines near Bang Sue. I suspect that the hare might be a frustrated train spotter, as the trail took us up and down and across all manner of tracks. At one point it took us along a wooden beam set in the middle of a pond of used oil.
We eventually came out on a soi at the far side of the railway yard, but after 200 metres we went down an alley and back into the railway yard. The trail took us further north this time, but then back across the tracks and home past the bus drivers who by now were on their second or third Beer Chiang.
In the circle the GM complained that it was the most polluted run he had ever been on - not because of the environmental pollution but because we had Katoey Kickboxer fresh from Singapore running with us, spreading SARS to the whole pack. Co-hare Alastair got compared unfavourably with the youthful demeanour of the Hare, and later he got more stick in the circle when his namesake Alastair McManus asked him why he didn't use 'Grey Away' like everyone else who has greying hare (isn't that right, Stumbles?). Pam was called in to explain what it was like spending weeks in Nepal with the Hash Heckler bombarding her with trivia all day long, and Tom 'Pussy Virus' Ellefsen got a down down for his 32nd birthday.
Prick of the Week was awarded jointly to two virgins, one of whom was a bit coy about putting the appendage on. Even after Pussy Galore had shown how easy it was the virgin was still apprehensive, and the Hasher who brought them had to wear it instead.
There were a host of returners, including BMH3 veteran Alastair 'Tablebreaker' McManus, Derek 'Muffdiver' Tavender, Paul 'Katoey Kickboxer' Loke, Dick 'Lick Dearly' Leary, Lem 'No Good Boyo' Morgan, Pam 'Twin peaks' Carter and Ian 'Archarn Khee Maow' Slater.
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