"This is no laughing matter," Jean-Pierre Delord, the mayor, told The Daily Telegraph.What isn't?
This:
...in the past few months, the quiet village has been inundated by groups of esoteric outsiders who believe the peak is an "alien garage".*chuckle*
According to them, extraterrestrials are quietly waiting in a massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end, at which point they will leave, taking, it is hoped, a lucky few humans with them.
Most believe Armageddon will take place on December 21, 2012, the end date of the ancient Maya calendar, at which point they predict human civilisation will come to an end. Another favourite date mentioned is 12, December, 2012. They see Bugarach as one of perhaps several "sacred mountains" sheltered from the cataclysm.
Still, the mayor has contingency plans:
"If tomorrow 10,000 people turn up, as a village of 200 people we will not be able to cope. I have informed the regional authorities of our concerns and want the army to be at hand if necessary come December 2012."The army!?
The Army indeed! Boy do these French mayors weild some serious clout! Don't tell Boris.
ReplyDeleteAn army of coffee and hotdog sellers would probably be best.
ReplyDeleteYou could charge anything you want, if they beleive the world is about to end.
What is really needed isn't the army, just a whole lot of men in white coats.
ReplyDeleteAn army of coffee and hotdog sellers would probably be best
Plus a good supply of portaloos.
In Hitch-hiker the dolphins just left saying 'good-bye and thanks for all the fish'.
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit a bunch of New Age hippies and UFO abduction nuts getting machine-gunned by French paratroopers would be seriously good TV.
ReplyDeletewhy not the army. They aren't doing anything else.
ReplyDeleteCould use this idea in the UK and rest the police.
He was wrong about hearing aliens hammering away beneath the mountain. It was the dwarves
ReplyDelete"Boy do these French mayors weild some serious clout! Don't tell Boris."
ReplyDeleteHeh!
"An army of coffee and hotdog sellers would probably be best."
It's got to be the best marketing opportunity in the world.
"He was wrong about hearing aliens hammering away beneath the mountain. It was the dwarves"
:D
Message from the "Aliens"....
ReplyDeleteHi Hoooooo!!!!
(Put your best foot forward,
Go boldly on your way,
Never once forgetting there's one born every day...)
TTFN :)