There seems to be a growing trend of interrupting religious services at churches and what follows is just one more case of this. A man stripped off his clothes at the altar and launched a tirade of invectives towards the congregation.
Thankfully, it was not a Sunday Mass, but even so, the sensibilities of many were seriously upset when a man staggered in off the street, making his way, laboriously, to the altar, as the priest was giving his sermon. The man was staggering because he was quite obviously drunk, with a glassy stare fixed on his objective… there was left little doubt that his presence did not bode well.
Once he reached the altar, the 51-year-old man turned round, facing the congregation, and to the priest’s consternation, began by stripping off his shirt, followed by his trousers and then finally liberating himself of even his underpants… which is no mean feat when your are the worse for drink.
So that nobody became bored during his ‘transition,’ he launched a florid and inventive stream of curses, insults and strictly non-PC observations. At this point several male members of the congregation grabbed him and dragged him – offering pretty impressive resistance, to the exit, while others phoned the Policia Nacional to come round and ‘take care of him.’
When the police did get there, he explained that he had stripped off because he considered that ‘Christ would find it easier to enter into him,’ in this uninhibited state. Hopefully, he was dressed by the time that he reached the police cells, because it would only be the Lord that might have been tempted to ‘enter.’ The man in question, is a main feature in a nearby square where he spends most of his lubricated moments.
(News: Granada, Andalucia)