Beebs reports[thanks Ramya] on a council that pandered to a family's delusions to save tax payer money.
A psychic was paid £60 by a council to rid a County Durham home of a "poltergeist" after ghostly goings-on.
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A council spokesman said it paid half the psychic's fee as it was the most cost-effective solution.
It is a cost effective solution for the council but what about the ghost that is not homeless? Who's gonna care for it now? I must say, Durham county council is full of heartless councilors with noses pressed deep into their budget books.
I read this and needed some exorcism myself, you know, to get rid of the Fatal Hilarity Ghost that had gotten into my head:
"He said my dressing gown then came floating down the stairs and landed at his feet."He ran out and rang me crying like a girl saying something awful had happened - I thought he was drunk, but when we came back we heard the bangs and whispering."
More like this
Press release (in Swedish - translation from the Swedish by Ingegerd Rabow):
Score one for Oceana and the New England Fisheries Management Council. Actually, score them fifteen.
The Family Research Council asks, "Do you believe that America, as a nation, was founded upon Christian principles?
97% of the clueless ideologues at the Patriarchy Research Council think so.
When George Bush quietly dismissed two members of his Council on Bioethics on the last Friday in February, he probably assumed the news would get buried under the weekends distractions.
Here on Science Blogs, Ed mentioned exorcism and I commented on the story two full days ago. I even linked to the same beeb story in my blog yesterday evening. Ramya/Rana ... close enough?