On the front page of the Shropshire Star (yes, the front page) yesterday was a story about the statue of Charles Darwin outside Shresbury Library sprouting a traffic cone over the weekend.
This isn’t about the newsworthiness, or otherwise, of the Shropshire Star’s front page stories but the quote from the librarian, Mrs Buckley:
It’s something that does happen from time to time and I think it’s just people messing about
Erm … if it wasn’t just people messing about, what was it? Millitant WI members protesting at the blasphemous image of Satan’s worker, Charles Darwin? Aliens? Shropshire is supposed to be a bit of a UFO hotspot after all.
Someone’s trying to prove themselves the exception to the laws of evolution I think …
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It’s almost worth giving these people an honorary Darwin Award…
I saw that on the Shropshire Star website when I was having lunch yesterday and thought the standards had slipped from a few years back when they used to publish worthy news…
It seems to be the fate of great men immortalised in stone, either the pigeons express an opinion or some numty places a traffic cone on your head. I’ve seen it happen to the statue of Captain James Cook in Whitby.
Still that’s got to be better than the statue of a former victorian founder of Middlesbrough who for a couple of weeks was festooned with a pair of ladies unmentionables!
Hotbed of intrigue down that way.
and this time it wasn’t either of us…haha…
Boris says “Hi!” by the way.. 😉