You couldn't make it up dept. no.63: a new reason to end up before the beak

[fpb]

What follows is probably very imprecise. I have not been able to find it on any British news site, but it was reported in different forms by two Italian newspapers. This is my translation of the longer report, from today's La Repubblica.

Comments

[filialucis]

*facepalm*

I. Have. No. Words.

[patchworkmind]

Sounds like a story arc for Desperate Housewives.

[theswordmaiden]

I'm off to exciting Shrewsbury.

Seriously ... Suzanne's opinion of this wedding is difficult for me to grasp.

[bufo_viridis]

There once was an old man of Lyme
Who married three wives at a time
When asked, "Why a third?"
He replied, "One's absurd
And bigamy, sir, is a crime."

- William Cosmo Monkhouse

[wudjuwait]

'the very type of the quiet English country town'
just my view but they, especially the market towns in the sticks, invariably have a nasty, dark little underbelly. dependending on how well they are connected to the metropolitan areas, alcohol issues are a given, drug use is prevalent in certain groups of society as are it's associated effects. often the services in these places are not geared to deal with arising issues in a joined up fashion, although the situation has been improving over the past 5 - 10 years or so. seaside towns are no less exempt.

[fpb]

I know. One jut has to read what Alan Moore had to say about his native Northampton. And we all know what Sherlock Holmes had to say about "the smiling and beautiful countryside" - and he was right, too. I was dealing in stereotypes - and, as I said, Shrewsbury had been in the news more often than usual, lately.