Ghostbusting on the Taxpayers’ Dime in the U.K.

Today is chock full of religiously motivated stupidity, and I haven’t even had time to brush up on Christian News Wire.  But for today’s first post I’m going to shift gears away from mainstream religion for a moment and tackle some good old-fashioned superstition.

If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call?  The Easington Town Council in Britain, I guess.

The trouble all started over the Christmas Holiday with supernaturally levitated evening-gowns taking a stroll through the house and then escalated to menacing whispering, symmetrical book stacking, massive unexplained undersea sponge migrations, giant Marshmallow Men demolishing Central Park West, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

I might have confused the BBC story with the 1984 blockbuster Ghostbusters in that previous paragraph, but it still doesn’t sound any less ridiculous.

Sadly, we still haven’t reached the most ridiculous part of the story.  A sensible local government would just ignore these crackpots for the superstitious nutjobs they are, but the Easington Council decided to hire a medium to come in and perform an exorcism of the home.  I’m pretty sure that this is the first incident of a municipal government taking a proactive stance against the supernatural since the infamous New York City v. Vigo the Carpathian, though the methods and results were less spectacular in this case:

I put down a circle of salt, asked the family to be present and I have now sent him on his way.

Don’t cross the salt.  That would be bad.

Source: BBC News

Via: The Scientific Indian

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