Posted on 03/06/2013 11:45:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
A retired lawyer was so offended when his local church placed a wooden cross in the village green for Lent that he threw it into a duck pond in anger.
The five feet cross was placed on the small green in the upmarket village of Brearton, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire, for the duration of the Christian festival.
But retired lawyer Alan Pickard, 82, took exception to the “arrogance” of St. John the Baptist Church, tearing the cross down and dumping it in the water. …
Josephine Johnston, 85, who has lived in the village of Brearton for 35 years, described Pickard’s actions as “sacrilege”. … “Mr. Pickard said he was going to dump it if it happened again. He has no legal right; it is not his property. He was a judge, but he is behaving like a hooligan.” …
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Make the cross out of those mouse trap pads sticky stuff. Then sit back with a camera.
Or to keep tossing him back in the pond everytime he gets out.
What a sad, disordered individual.
Cast iron. Bolt it down.
This sounds like an episode of Midsomer Murders.
Piers Morgans’s father?
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