Tuesday, November 22, 2005

You gotta be shitting me! Developer:0 Fairies:1

What else is there to say?

H/T Pambie
Genesis Properties ceased plans to develop a new housing community in St Fillans, Perthshire, because the locals believe they may be disturbing a small colony of fairies living under a rock.

Marcus Salter, head of Genesis: “A neighbour came over shouting, ‘Don’t move that rock. You’ll kill the fairies’. Then we got a series of phone calls, saying we were disturbing the fairies. I thought they were joking.”

The rock protrudes from Dundurn mountain, ancient site of St. Fillan’s attempts to convert the Picts.

Mr. Salter attended a community council meeting, and Jeannie Fox, council chairman, said: “I do believe in fairies but I can’t be sure that they live under that rock. I had been told that the rock had historic importance, that kings were crowned upon it. A lot of people think the rock had some Pictish meaning, it would be extremely unlucky to move it.”

Genesis relocated the entire project.

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