The Clockwork Chartophylax

Some headlines that I wish were April Fool jokes, but aren’t:
Pope to give ‘moral guidance’ during UK visit
Child victim of human trafficking in India consoles distraught Lindsay Lohan

Posted on April 1st, 2010 under Crazy, Stupidity, religion, wtf?. Tags: april fool, bbc, catholic church, lindsay lohan, pope. Comments: None

The Irish Times:
Dozens of people queued inside a Co Kerry courthouse yesterday to shake hands and sympathise with a man who was jailed for five years for sexually assaulting a woman in Listowel.
In her victim impact statement, the woman spoke of being “judged” in north Kerry, but said she was not sorry for telling the [...]

Posted on December 17th, 2009 under Ireland, religion, wtf?. Tags: catholic church, Ireland, listowel, shithole. Comments: None

It’s really hard to concentrate on the Lisbon II campaign when there’s stories like this happening in the world:
Yahoo News (increasingly, a bizarro aggregation service):
Fanatic hijacked Mexican plane after ‘revelation’
MEXICO CITY – A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday, police [...]

Posted on September 13th, 2009 under Strangeness, religion, wtf?. Tags: hijack, mexico, religion, weird. Comments: 1

Via Yahoo News:
The bodies of three newborn babies were found when police were tipped off following a drunken row at a sexy lingerie party, it was claimed.

Posted on September 3rd, 2009 under Britain, wtf?. Tags: Britain, lede, wtf?. Comments: None