Priest vs skaters

[Tale]

Reverend Monsignor Geoffrey Baron, Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, gets the kids off his lawn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OLkLPWKfDM

Some people will have no sympathy for the trespassing teenagers, but the aggressive part begins when the priest slaps one of them on the side of the head. Then he starts making racist remarks and appears to have a suspicious obsession with their sperm and anal sex.

Cue media controversy and racist supporters.

[Tale]

I have to add I am enjoying the video comments on YouTube :)

fkotz   (1 hour ago)
He was defending church property. All of you mongrels can expect full pay back from God. God will punish you with great fury and vengeance!

depaffect   (1 hour ago)
will he call us fucking cunts too?????

Sjury07igs (1 hour ago)
I've met the Monsignor Baron before. He is really quite friendly. He just can't stand it when people like this don't respect the authority of the church.

cc5680 (1 hour ago)
I have black hair...is he going to slap me across the head too?

jamespaul1977 (58 minutes ago)
lol did he mention sperm at all when you met

shurekosta (1 hour ago)
If I was there witnessing this shit, I would have broken all legs belonging to those little gay faggoted kids, dragged them back into the church and rape every one of their hot fresh young assholes and then we'll see if they do that again.

nellydean (1 hour ago)
I take it you are a priest as well then?

[Signe]

I know I'm rooting for the skate punks!

[Strazos]

They're all a bunch of tools.

I mean, seriously. I have no love for the church at all, but I would still have enough respect to not skate at one. Idiots.

[Signe]

When I was a kid, I hated priests and nuns.  Of course, I went to parochial school and they very much abused us.  If I had any balance at all, I would have skated outside the church, inside the church, on their feet, on their faces, anywhere I could that would annoy them.  I'm not such an angry person now, though.  I hardly ever even shout abuse at them from the car anymore.

[Tebonas]

The fact that he is a priest has nothing at all to do with this whole thing.

Being little fucktards on private property that they were, up to the smack on the head it was ok. He got carried away after that, but since most priests have neither weapons nor martial arts training he couldn't give them whats their due.

[Phildo]

I thought that him being a priest had a LOT to do with it... aren't they supposed to, you know, turn the other cheek and that sort of thing?  And there are almost definitely rules against swearing, right?  Yeah, they deserved a smack on the head, but having the reverend do it himself sets a bad example for the churchgoers.  At least, that's what I'd imagine if I was Christian... am I wrong?

[Signe]

The fact that he is a priest has nothing at all to do with this whole thing.

Being little fucktards on private property that they were, up to the smack on the head it was ok. He got carried away after that, but since most priests have neither weapons nor martial arts training he couldn't give them whats their due.

  Get off my lawn, you goddam kids! 

That is you, that is.

[Tebonas]

If you buy into that "Priests are Gods representatives on earth" spiel, then yes you would be right Phildo. But Priests have shown numerous times that they have the same human faults everybody else has. They range from virtuous examples to depraved child molesters, so am I surprised by a vulgar priest that slaps another person? Hell no, I was born catholic.

What exactly is wrong with deciding who can and can't mess around with my lawn, Signe? Just because todays youth is cuddled into a disproportional sense of entitlement doesn't make it true. Adults can go fuck themself as well if they abuse my lawn instead of planting their own.

Hey, now I really gotta buy me some house with a lawn. I really miss out on crotchety old man antics on the 8th floor here!  :-D

[Signe]

I would so abuse your lawn!  Just for a larf, too. 

[schild]

I've done some terrible things in churches.

They're tax-free properties. As far as I'm concerned, skaters should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want there.

It actually has nothing to do with The Actual Religions or The Church for me so much as all organized religions are swimming in money that doesn't seem to get used for any Good other than things they consider good, like Missions and shit. That just rubs me the wrong way.

[Tebonas]

The tax exemption is actually a fair point. Their parents can skate there, they paid for it.  :-D

[CmdrSlack]

Meh. Seems like a lack of respect on all sides to me. The kids should have respected that, hey, some people care about that place and don't want kids skating there. The priest should have respected the kids enough to not be an utter tool. After a certain point though, the kids were just egging the old fart on.

That's when it got hilarious.

[Engels]

I'm trying to imagine some day-to-day scenario in the lives of priests everywhere where this particular priest got to polish his colourful insult repertoire.

[Tale]

I'm trying to imagine some day-to-day scenario in the lives of priests everywhere where this particular priest got to polish his colourful insult repertoire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5snc_LYSY

[Oban]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T5snc_LYSY

What show is that from?

[Tale]

What show is that from?

Wow, I didn't expect that question from someone in the UK! It's Father Ted, very successful 1990s comedy series set among Irish Catholic priests living on an island, from people who went on to write Black Books and other cult classic comedy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Ted

It was very funny stuff - there's a goldmine of clips on YouTube if you want to watch some.

It came to a sad end because 24 hours after filming the final episode, the actor who played Father Ted died of a heart attack. So it was aired to a shocked and moved audience, and that was the end of it all.

A scene from a Christmas Episode

[Oban]

Ah, '95-'98, that explains it...

Will have to see if I can pick this up on DVD.

[Engels]

I can't emphazise the greatness of Father Ted enough. My girlfriend and I still quote it to each other like a pair of 14 year old monty python fans.

"Fek, arse, gurls, drink!"

[DraconianOne]

I can't emphazise the greatness of Father Ted enough.

I concur.  I have, however, found that non-catholics don't "get" some of the funnier bits. 

I thought that him being a priest had a LOT to do with it... aren't they supposed to, you know, turn the other cheek and that sort of thing?  And there are almost definitely rules against swearing, right?  Yeah, they deserved a smack on the head, but having the reverend do it himself sets a bad example for the churchgoers.  At least, that's what I'd imagine if I was Christian... am I wrong?

I bet if Jesus was around today, he'd probably have a thing or two to say about it too.  Matthew 21:12 - "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves."  If there were dope smoking skaters around in Jerusalem back then, it would have been like a precursor to the running street battles of the Great Hippie/Skater Bitchslap of Haywards Heath in 1998. 

I'm trying to imagine some day-to-day scenario in the lives of priests everywhere where this particular priest got to polish his colourful insult repertoire.

You don't know many priests, do you?  :-D

[DraconianOne]

From Herald Sun

But one of the skaters, who gave his name only as Adrian, said the priest had sworn at them before, on catching them trespassing on church grounds.

He said some of his mates "got a little bit too excited" this time but blamed the monsignor for stirring them up.

"He's notorious," Adrian said. "We shouldn't have been there . . . but he has no right to swear profanities at us.

So, they'd been there before and been sworn at before.  I wondered why they had an obviously hidden camera with fisheye lens.  Reeks of pre-meditation to me. 

[Tale]

From Herald Sun
I wondered why they had an obviously hidden camera with fisheye lens.  Reeks of pre-meditation to me.

Not at all. The fisheye lens and camera are standard teenage skater gear, to film each other and make themselves a skate video. Nothing to do with filming priests.

[Lantyssa]

I thought that him being a priest had a LOT to do with it... aren't they supposed to, you know, turn the other cheek and that sort of thing?  And there are almost definitely rules against swearing, right?  Yeah, they deserved a smack on the head, but having the reverend do it himself sets a bad example for the churchgoers.  At least, that's what I'd imagine if I was Christian... am I wrong?

I bet if Jesus was around today, he'd probably have a thing or two to say about it too.  Matthew 21:12 - "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves."  If there were dope smoking skaters around in Jerusalem back then, it would have been like a precursor to the running street battles of the Great Hippie/Skater Bitchslap of Haywards Heath in 1998. 

Those don't seem to be related at all.  That line seems far more applicable to what Schild was saying...

[DraconianOne]

Those don't seem to be related at all.  That line seems far more applicable to what Schild was saying...

You're not wrong - it was tenuous at best.  How about "I bring you not peace but a sword and I'll stab your skateboarding arse if you come anywhere near me, bitch!" I'm sure he said that too.

[Yegolev]

If God had intended for me to not skate in church, he'd have not placed such smooth marble floors in them.

[CmdrSlack]

Yes, but He also would have added a halfpipe.

ETA -- Actually, converting a former church (you can find plenty of Generic Nutty Christian Sect churches, I'd imagine) into an indoor skatepark would be kinda boss.

[Oban]

Skate Church:

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=26132&category=34029

[Phildo]

There's one in Pittsburgh that got turned into a brewery.  They also have great frisbees in the gift shop there, for some reason.

[Tale]

New video emerges of the same priest, different incident: clicky

[Samwise]

It actually has nothing to do with The Actual Religions or The Church for me so much as all organized religions are swimming in money that doesn't seem to get used for any Good other than things they consider good, like Missions and shit. That just rubs me the wrong way.

Spoken like someone who's never done a day of volunteer work in his life.  Am I rite?

[Lantyssa]

He's been put on leave.

[stu]

My Lvl 40 Holy spec Priest would whoops that priest's ass.

[UD_Delt]

I've done some terrible things in churches.

They're tax-free properties. As far as I'm concerned, skaters should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want there.

Don't forget to spend time skating out in front of government buildings... The courthouse, the jail, the police station... All sorts of places to go do terrible things if tax-free is your criterion.

[Samwise]

I've done some terrible things in churches.

They're tax-free properties. As far as I'm concerned, skaters should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want there.

Don't forget to spend time skating out in front of government buildings... The courthouse, the jail, the police station... All sorts of places to go do terrible things if tax-free is your criterion.

I like to go down to the local animal shelter and make fun of the puppies that are on death row.  The little freeloaders don't have to pay any taxes, so I should at least get some jollies out of them before they get the needle.

[stray]

Bit of a derail, but...


ALL HAIL MIKE MOTHERFUCKING V!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCVreZstk84

Heh

Luckily, that guy wussed out in the end. He would have turned out like this