Councillors in Lodz, Poland, replaced all 4,000 of the town's manhole covers after the new ones had been blessed at a church service to keep them safe.
Town sewage department president Wlodzmierz Tomaszewski explained: "Lodz's holy patron is Saint Faustina who walked the streets helping the poor and underprivileged. "By blessing the manhole covers we are blessing the streets and spreading her goodness," he added.
But locals think the project is money down the drain. "If they think a few prayers will keep all those new manhole covers safe from thieves they need to think again. There won't be one left within a month," said one.
2 comments:
wouldn't it be better to just replace them with non-metal ones?
I'd be interested to see that stats pre- and post-blessing.
What if that man in the dress with the magic wand had said the wrong incantation accidentally and turned the manhole covers into Jesus wafers?
Then cars would be RUNNING OVER JESUS!
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