We don’t get that much news from Guatemala and this month is no different, with the following story being just about on the limit of tastelessness and idiocy.
Step up, Tun Jonah Gómez, an interesting chap from the town of Retalhuleu, which is around 250 kilometres south of the capital. He has an issue with purple men, who follow him around and tell him that he has powers… yes you’ve guessed it, Tun is a pubic hair short of a plug hole, a sandwich short of a picnic, a neuron short of a synapse… completely mad.
Just to prove his insanity to the world, Tun dug up his mother who had died some three years ago and was arrested trying to raise the remains back to life, “God told me to show the world that He exists,” Tun explained to the astonished officers, “I’ve seen purple men who follow me and they always say I have powers.”
Needless to say, Mr. Gómez (not the Gómez from the Adams Family), is being detained as a psychiatric case as opposed to a criminal one at this stage, unless of course he can come up with a sentence that doesn’t contain a reference to purple men.