Give Me a Break...
In the English town of Derby, some people are protesting the restoration of a statue that has been standing for over 100 years. As reported by
CNN/Money
Hat tip to the
Politburo Diktat.
bq. For more than 100 years it stood proudly as the centrepiece of England's oldest public park before being decapitated during a Second World War air raid.
Now a row has broken out after plans to replace Derby's historic Florentine Boar statue were abandoned for fear of offending Muslims, whose religion considers pigs to be 'unclean'.
From the article:
bq. A replica of the statue, a crouching wild boar, was intended as the jewel in the crown of a Pounds 5 million National Lottery- funded restoration of the city's Arboretum Park.
bq. But councillors have called for the proposal to be scrapped amid
sinister warnings that the statue would be vandalised or stolen.
Bunch of wankers...
Posted by DaveH at March 29, 2004 12:45 AM