Cause and effect
Oh for fuck’s sake…
FIVE people who stared at the sun in the hope they might be witnessing religious apparitions are being treated for serious eye damage, a top eye surgeon has revealed. Reports of pilgrims to Knock seeing the sun dance in the sky and changing colour indicate serious eye damage.
It’s irony on the base level, but self-proclaimed spiritual healers and visionaries Joe Coleman and Keith Henderson are actually harming people and causing them to lose their sight.
Dr O’Donoghue [the aforementioned eye surgeon] said that it was “monstrous” to mislead people into thinking that altered vision and effects, such as seeing the sun dance, were a religious apparition when they were classic symptoms of solar retinopathy.
“If it did not have such monstrous effects you could describe it as a cheap circus trick,” he said.
Given that county councils can be sued for thousands for cracks in the pavement, I think Messrs Coleman and Henderson can be expecting some law suits in the near future.
Of course, if I were their lawyer, I’d argue that if you’re stupid enough to stare at the sun long enough to go blind on the word of a pair of two-bit snake-oil salesmen, then the blame lies with you.
