Pope may be infallible, but not unfallable!

[Dale]

Pope falls, breaks wrist.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07 ... index.html

[mutepointe]

Headlines like that you just have to wait for.

[dubhlinn]

A very unpleasant experience for a man of his age.

Man to man...I hope he's O.K.

He is human ..after all.


Slan,
D.

[Innocent Bystander]

Accident provokes incident...

Three nuns who hurried towards Pope Benedict XVI's holiday home after learning that he had suffered a minor accident were stopped by police for speeding at 180kph.

Sister Tavoletta, who also lost her driving licence for a month, has not meekly accepted this rebuke. Instead, she will appeal against the fine with the aid of Italy's best known lawyer in driving cases, Anna Orecchioni

.


http://www.independent.ie/world-news/eu ... 31579.html

[Denny]

180kph (112mph) in a Fiesta!

I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield, Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station, And the preacher said 'You know, you always have the Lord by your side', And I was so pleased to be informed of this, That I ran 20 red lights in His honor, Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord

[jim stone]

One of several features of a story that doesn't add up.

[dwest]

180kph (112mph) in a Fiesta!

Not at all impossible for the Euro version, just seems to be an inappropriate car for nuns, Fiesta! Plus all the nuns I knew who could drive drove with one foot on the brake and one foot on the gas, I always thanked God each time we made it through an intersection before the lights changed.

[crookedtune]

180kph (112mph) in a Fiesta!

Not at all impossible for the Euro version, just seems to be an inappropriate car for nuns.

[dwest]

[jim stone]

Okay, I’ve tried to do some research. As far as I can tell, the top horsepower Ford fiesta is 120. Unless you get a souped-up version, and these are rare. That’s the power of my Honda civic hatchback. There have been moonlit nights in places like Wyoming, at about 3 AM, where I crossed the hundred mile per hour line, but I’ve never done 110. It’s doable I think, maybe, but one would be flat out. The driver is a 56-year-old nun accompanied by two much older nuns. They are going to the pope’s side to do what? There is, on the face of things, no possibility that they will see him. These women are under discipline. It’s not entirely unlike privates in the Army speeding in a Jeep to be by the side of the general. According to another story, the driver is contesting the ticket under the “law of necessity”. She has a lawyer, a woman experienced in defending clergy against such tickets. What is the necessity? It’s conceivable the story is true, but I don’t believe it.

perhaps I have underestimated Italians.

[jsluder]

It’s conceivable the story is true, but I don’t believe it.

You ol' skeptic, you.

[dwest]

I don't claim to know what model the Sisters were driving but some have engines more than capable of 130mph. Add to that a wing and a prayer and those cars can fly.

[s1m0n]

The driver is a 56-year-old nun accompanied by two much older nuns. They are going to the pope’s side to do what? There is, on the face of things, no possibility that they will see him. These women are under discipline.

The pope's household staff are usually nuns.

[Denny]

any of these?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-wo ... -21536964/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -home.html
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 16,00.html
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/323956.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... -Pope.html
http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/aosta-p ... refuse-pay

or pick one yerself:
http://www.google.com/search?q=three+nu ... +tavoletta

[jim stone]

The driver is a 56-year-old nun accompanied by two much older nuns. They are going to the pope’s side to do what? There is, on the face of things, no possibility that they will see him. These women are under discipline.

The pope's household staff are usually nuns.

I wrote: 'These women are under discipline. It’s not entirely unlike privates in the Army speeding in a Jeep to be by the side of the general.'

I didn't mean that their discipline precluded them from seeing a man. Monks would have had
the same problem. They say they were going to 'visit' him. It makes no sense.
Suppose Obama breaks his wrist and I speed off to Washington to be
with him..... I'm a soldier; he's the Commander and Chief, you see.

Denny these are all the same story, as far as I can tell, just printed in
different places.

No big deal and it doesn't make sense. Oh well. Such is life.