We can all remember at least two or three interesting newspaper headlines from years gone by but few have the shock value of this one.
If the editors had used something a little less descriptive perhaps it wouldn’t have had the impact that it did. If ever there was a knockout hook then this is it. I doubt we would ever get away with that in the this country. The famous “Freddie Starr ate my hamster” headline seems tame by comparison.
It’s even more eye-wateringly unbelievable when you get to the sub-heading. As if the whole experience of being taken up the wrong ‘un by a man of God (which no doubt lends itself to another blog post for another day) wasn’t painful enough the headline refers to his fallus as being rather sizable in it’s proportions. How far along the embarrassment scale is this going to go?
For some this may be a relatively normal occurrence but surely getting your poop shoot bludgeoned by a well-hung priest can’t be much fun? To round off this sorry episode it appears that the boy, unhappy at the way his dignity has been cruelly stripped away, has somehow managed to get the boy-buggering bible-basher to a police station. I cannot imagine, for a single moment, how this lad would have replied to the question “How was your day?”.
If you were the desk sergeant that day I wonder how long you would have kept a straight face for?