We never had this kind of trouble when the mafia was running things…

File under “things that brighten a headline writer’s day” (via):

Priest ‘smashes chair’ over Italian restaurant owner’s head as nuns kick him in the stomach

In the southern Italian village of Rutino, near Salerno:

The clergyman and nuns allegedly hit and kicked the 49-year-old man in an argument over the lease on the restaurant, which is owned by the Catholic Church.

[...]

“I came down to try to calm things down but the priest hit me with a chair and I ended up on the floor. Then the two sisters started kicking me, insulting me with unrepeatable words,” the unnamed owner said in a statement.

[...]

“This establishment was being occupied illegally,” said lawyer Gaetano Di Vietri. “As to the alleged aggression, I would only say that the two nuns have a combined age of about 160. For the rest, it will be up to the magistrate to clear up, but the clergy members deny the allegations.”

The first rule of nun fight club is…

24 Responses to “We never had this kind of trouble when the mafia was running things…”


  1. 1 Pinko Punko

    I want to hear the sisters’ unrepeatable words. My goodness. I note they kicked in the stomach and not the sacred places. The sisters still recognize the magic seed.

  2. 2 ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

    Published by plover on November 11, 2008 in Uncategorized.

    Somewhere an unused tag named “Nunsense” cries out, “Put me in the game, Coach!”
    ~

  3. 3 Brando

    If they could find a way to combine mass with ultimate fighting, church attendance would skyrocket.

  4. 4 mdh

    ‘Nunsense’ for the win. I just can’t compete with that.

  5. 5 Pinko Punko

    I would have gone with Nunchucks.

  6. 6 zombie rotten mcdonald

    Is “Nuns Kicking You In The Stomach” too long for a ska band name?

  7. 7 plover

    Holy Order of the Perpetual Protection Racket (aka the HOPPRs)

    Nun Will Beat You Down

    And coming soon to a theater near you:
    Habit: The Kicking
    (The latest from the people who brought you Habit: Veiled Threat, Habit: No Prayer, and the often neglected Habit: Moose Stampede in Sunday School)

  8. 8 Mendacious D

    And the merchandising tie-in, of course, at the surplice store.

  9. 9 Mandos

    MenD mitre have won with that.

  10. 10 Mendacious D

    And it’s not true that I stole it.

  11. 11 Mandos

    I suppose a store like that could be a good in-vestment.

  12. 12 Mendacious D

    Although it sounds like the above fracas may have been caused by individuals suffering from Asperges Syndrome.

  13. 13 Brando

    The sisters beat that guy nunconscious.

  14. 14 Mendacious D

    I think a little Twisted Sister would be in order.

  15. 15 fish

    Their terrific mug “shot”.

    I hope that sentence displayed a proper use of pronuns.

  16. 16 ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

    Are you pro or anti-nunciation, fish?
    ~

  17. 17 fish

    I renunce pro-nunciation.

  18. 18 rotten mcdonald

    No, fish, they definitely look like amateurs to me….

  19. 19 Snag

    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Brawl.

  20. 20 Pinko Punko

    This thread is a baptismal font of wisdom.

  21. 21 ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©

    The fonts on this thread are sans-seraphical.
    ~

  22. 22 Pinko Punko

    Lots of mephistuffeles in this thing.

  23. 23 mdh

    Sounds like they beat the Mephistuphphing out of him.

  24. 24 Mendacious D

    I wonder if the accompanying photo includes a mephistogram.

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