Upon entering her home, I found the radio playing in the bathroom.
Why you may ask?
Apparently, the land behind her home had recently been cleared - before it was a thick tropical forest that covered a couple acres. Because it was now an open field, Nuch's mother needed some way to scare off any would be burglars that would dare traverse the swampy field, scale her 10 foot barbed fence, and break through her wrought-iron barred windows to steal her collection of empty boxes and plastic bags.
Playing the radio was supposed to make burglars think that someone was home - the fact that she set the radio on a station that played non-stop lectures on the teachings of the Buddha was just to make them feel guilty for even thinking about it.
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