Roads in Mayo get prayers and blessings in a bid to reduce road deaths

Hotblack Desiato

The road safety officer, a council employee, is wasting some of his time organising this crap instead of doing something useful.

Obliq

ninja900 wrote: »

The second motorbike I bought (in 1996) came with a St. Christopher medallion glued to each side of the frame.

I ditched 'em

My old micra came with a St. Christopher and a cross with jebus nailed to it, both industrially glued to the dash, and a bottle of holy ghost water in the glove box. I left them ;-) I did stick a toy porsche to the jebus though, and used the holy water in the washer bottle in an emergency (thank you jebus).

PopePalpatine

Obliq wrote: »

My old micra came with a St. Christopher and a cross with jebus nailed to it, both industrially glued to the dash, and a bottle of holy ghost water in the glove box. I left them ;-) I did stick a toy porsche to the jebus though, and used the holy water in the washer bottle in an emergency (thank you jebus).

Out of curiosity, have you ever tried drinking the holy water?

Obliq

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Out of curiosity, have you ever tried drinking the holy water?

EW! No. No, I haven't. Who knows where it's been, or how long ago?! Could have been rolling down the leg of a well licked statue of jebus in medjagorje (or however it's said/spelled). Worked fine in the washer bottle though.

Have you?

PopePalpatine

Nope, I haven't drank holy water either.

bumper234

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Nope, I haven't drank holy water either.

I once necked a glass of potin (firewater) that made me say "Well holy God" Does that count?

weisses

ninja900 wrote: »

The road safety officer, a council employee, is wasting some of his time organising this crap instead of doing something useful.

And what would be useful ?

Should he be barred from organizing non religious crap as well when it comes to road safety during events ?

Council employee wasting some of his time?! I thought that was a job requirement.

pauldla

weisses wrote: »

And what would be useful ?

Maybe some form of data analysis of accident blackspots? Ensuring standards of road maintenance so that they are adequately surfaced, signed and trafficworthy? A campaign in the local press to remind drivers of the dangers of speeding? I’m not an expert, but if ‘Pray’ is on his list of things to do to make Mayo roads safer, perhaps he is not equal to the job?

Should he be barred from organizing non religious crap as well when it comes to road safety during events ?

I’d hope his job description would bar him from holding any crap event that is highly unlikely to have an impact on road safety. Praying to make the roads safer is as relevant and as useful as eating corned beef and tomato sandwiches to make the roads safer.

Brian Shanahan

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Out of curiosity, have you ever tried drinking the holy water?

I did once when I was about ten. It was green.

Fred Swanson

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Pherekydes

More likely from the algae.

Brian Shanahan

And not one mention of the obvious Star Trek reference. I am very dissapoint.