🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:32:25 +0100, Michael Baldwin, Bruce <mbb@mighty.co.za> wrote:

> Peter Hucker wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:28:39 +0100, Michael Baldwin, Bruce <mbb@mighty.co.za> wrote:
>>
>> > Ted wrote:
>> >> On Sep 12, 10:46 am, Rere <rair...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > An American tourist who ran naked through a peaceful Swiss town,
>> >> > vandalized a church and escaped from police clutches by jumping into a
>> >> > lake could have been on hallucinogenic mushrooms, a local magistrate
>> >> > said.
>> >> >
>> >> > The 34 year-old from Massachusetts, who has since been allowed to
>> >> > return home, ran amok in the western town of Morges, by Lake Geneva,
>> >> > two weeks ago,
>> >> >
>> >> > He started babbling incoherently in the hotel lobby, stripped and ran
>> >> > naked along the quayside, broke a stained glass window in the nearby
>> >> > protestant temple with a stool and set a precious 1898 bible alight,
>> >> > police in Morges said.
>> >> >
>> >> > After being seized and handcuffed by police, he made a leap for
>> >> > freedom into the lake and bit two people who tried to help him while
>> >> > he was hanging on to a boat.
>> >> >
>> >> > Having recovered his senses, he later appeared before investigating
>> >> > magistrate Gilles Riva and "coherently" explained that he had eaten
>> >> > 'magic mushrooms' that he had bought in the Netherlands during a trip
>> >> > through Europe.
>> >> >
>> >> > "He said he had lots of regrets and said sorry at least fifty times,"
>> >> > Riva told the Swiss news agency ATS. Riva said the mushroom theory was
>> >> > "possible".
>> >> >
>> >> > The tourist, who also offered 250 dollars for each of the people he
>> >> > bit, was not named.
>> >> >
>> >> > http://tinyurl.com/27lbrq
>> >>
>> >> Major crime here was being a fat bastard. It appears that most folks
>> >> from America have round faces.
>> >
>> > Jumped in a lake, eh? I bet he had a wetback too.
>>
>> What exactly was the crime?  Being naked doesn't hurt anyone, and who needs churches anyway?
>
> Why ask me, PHucker? I wasn't there now, was I?

It was a general question to the whole group.
[waves hand thus]

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