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12/19/2005 Entry: "strange stories of 2005"
Chicago gets mention in AFP's strange stories of 2005. Oh right, the smudgy water stain 'vision' of the virgin under the Fullerton overpass. Sadly, there are still many pathetic people who leave flowers and other junk there.
- Tourism authorities in Switzerland decided to wrap an entire glacier in PVC foam to try and stop it melting during the summer months.- Christian believers in Chicago flocked to a highway retaining wall after a stain that was said to resemble the Virgin Mary appeared on it. A graffiti artist then scrawled "Big Lie" over it, before the city authorities had the whole thing painted over.
- A pastor in Denmark's established church who had been suspended because he did not believe in God was allowed back into the fold. "We're giving him another chance," said the religious affairs minister, who oversees the Lutheran Protestant Church.
- A mute young man who was found wandering on a southern English beach, and who was reported to be a virtuoso piano player, had media around the world fascinated for months. He was later found to be a German fame-seeker -- and it turned out he didn't play the piano all that well either.
The Piano Man has been mentioned
here before. He actually got some kind of regular writing gig after his crazy hoax. This just proves that there's no such thing as bad publicity.
