What did the good bishop do?
Bishop Jonathan Blake of the Open Episcopal Church helped his sons, Nathan, eight, and Dominic, seven, to the top of the chimney of their two-storey home.
Horrible. What sin did the two boys commit to be punished thus?
Not punishment. It was all in a good cause. There was a competition in their school- find the most unusual place to study a book. The good Bishop thought reading a book called,"The Killer Underpants", sitting on top a chimney on top of two storeys (more than 40 feet high) would be a sure winner. He took a photo.
Brilliant!
Not so. A neighbour called the police, and the police came and put the bishop in the cage in the back of a van and kept him in a cell for a night.
Poor man...
Yes, "I was taken out in handcuffs in front of the whole neighbourhood while my children were in tears. I was kept in the cells without any information about what was taking place from 7 pm until 10 am the following morning. I am appalled and incredulous. I would never have imagined in a thousand years that this could have happened," Reuters reports Bishop Jonathan Blake as saying.
But may be, the Bishop should not have risked the life and limb of his children?
The Bishop has a strong line of defence to that. The children were wearing safety harness, and climbed the chimney through a flat roof at the back of the house!
I suppose it is the turn of the school teacher who organised the competition and the police officials to get into the cage and get driven out of the town!
winters are welcome; especially if they promise the renewals of spring
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