Man jailed for letting young daughter wear sporran.

[Dall_Piobaire]

....and here I thought most of the media, these days, was all about satire!

[sydnie7]

Great site, thanks for the link even if you were spoofed at first. Especially like the one about Time Team website (geekette that I can be, on occasion).

[O'Callaghan]

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/10/1...-wear-sporran/

"A man has been jailed for 18 months for allowing his three-year-old daughter to wear a sporran.

Jack Gascoigne, 38, allowed his daughter to wear the offending kilt accessory and filmed her on his mobile phone. Nursery staff spotted the abuse when the child, known only as ‘Girl McA’, spoke at daycare about the great empiricists, insisted on watching repeats of Balamory, and refused to sing nursery rhymes which did not go to the tune of Mull of Kintyre. They alerted the police, who arrested Mr Gascoigne immediately.

Sentencing, Judge Nesmyth said: ‘Had the nursery workers not called the authorities, I am convinced you would have allowed your daughter to wear a kilt and play the bagpipes. A custodial sentence is the only suitable punishment for such wickedness. Take him doon, laddies.’
Fernandomando"


Am i missing something? How is letting his dauhgter wear his sporran considered child abuse?

I think the subtitle "The news before it happens" is the clue.

[BroosterB1]

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Of course he's real! he's on the internet!

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Lol, just had to respond to the dog and horse picture with a real one...



Gus is the horse with his tongue hanging out.
(he's not mine, he belongs to a member of my dog sulky group)

--Chelsea McMurdo--

[beloitpiper]

What's "Balamory"?

[cessna152towser]

What's "Balamory"?

Its a television series for children, set in Tobermory on the Island of Mull.

[CDNSushi]

Waaahhahahahahahahaha! Oh jeez that was funny!

Reminds me of THIS news story that made my morning news feed a couple years ago.

http://www.theinsider.com/news/14677...p_For_a_Poodle

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article....&in_page_id=34

(Yeah, I fell for it)... But then again, I know Japanese women and I can totally see this actually happening.

[Garry Oak]

Sure; you've all had me believing that the Kilt Police weren't real...

[ForresterModern]

The US version of the satirical newspaper is known as "The Onion". Irreverence is its motto. Nothing is sacred, although I doubt there have been many kilt or accessory related articles published in it. Many a howling good laugh hath been spawned in those pages, however.

http://www.theonion.com/content/index