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18-12-2004, 13:05
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A carpenter has witnessed the second coming of Christ – on a crumpet.
But atheist Shaun Garrod initially believed his early Christmas present was more a gift from the rock gods – thinking the apparition was the Bee Gees frontman Barry Gibb.
Shaun, 31, from Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, said: “I was just toasting some crumpets and when I pulled them out to check they were OK my brother Elliott said ‘that looks like Jesus’.
“I thought he was messing me about but I had a look and thought it looked like one of the Bee Gees, the one with the hair.
“Later in the day I had another look at it and I thought it does look like Jesus.”
The timber recycling specialist was eating breakfast at the weekend when he made his startling discovery.
But he he is more interested in using his crumpet to raise a laugh than a fortune.
He said: “I took it to the pub and my mates thought it was great.
“A mate of mine is a regular churchgoer and he thought it was divine. I have had people asking me to bless them, I can’t believe the reaction.
“My Dad asked me if it was a Sunblest product and said he had had the Pope on the phone about it.”
But Shaun has no plans to cash in on Christ by following the example of an American woman who made £14,500 from selling a cheese sandwich carrying an image of the Virgin Mary.
Diana Duyser, from Hollywood, Florida, sold the 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich on eBay for 28,000 last week.
“It has shrunk a bit now and is about the size of a biscuit. It is in a cupboard on a piece of kitchen paper and its rock hard.
“People ask me if I am going to sell it but if I did put it up on eBay I think I could be done for selling a dangerous weapon.”
While he has ruled out selling his 37p snack on an internet auction site, he is thinking over an offer to display the crumpet behind the bar of his local, Zeus Bar, in Ashby.
“If they cross my lips with liquid I’ll think about it,” he said.
Is someone trying to cash in on something?
A carpenter has witnessed the second coming of Christ – on a crumpet.
But atheist Shaun Garrod initially believed his early Christmas present was more a gift from the rock gods – thinking the apparition was the Bee Gees frontman Barry Gibb.
Shaun, 31, from Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, said: “I was just toasting some crumpets and when I pulled them out to check they were OK my brother Elliott said ‘that looks like Jesus’.
“I thought he was messing me about but I had a look and thought it looked like one of the Bee Gees, the one with the hair.
“Later in the day I had another look at it and I thought it does look like Jesus.”
The timber recycling specialist was eating breakfast at the weekend when he made his startling discovery.
But he he is more interested in using his crumpet to raise a laugh than a fortune.
He said: “I took it to the pub and my mates thought it was great.
“A mate of mine is a regular churchgoer and he thought it was divine. I have had people asking me to bless them, I can’t believe the reaction.
“My Dad asked me if it was a Sunblest product and said he had had the Pope on the phone about it.”
But Shaun has no plans to cash in on Christ by following the example of an American woman who made £14,500 from selling a cheese sandwich carrying an image of the Virgin Mary.
Diana Duyser, from Hollywood, Florida, sold the 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich on eBay for 28,000 last week.
“It has shrunk a bit now and is about the size of a biscuit. It is in a cupboard on a piece of kitchen paper and its rock hard.
“People ask me if I am going to sell it but if I did put it up on eBay I think I could be done for selling a dangerous weapon.”
While he has ruled out selling his 37p snack on an internet auction site, he is thinking over an offer to display the crumpet behind the bar of his local, Zeus Bar, in Ashby.
“If they cross my lips with liquid I’ll think about it,” he said.
Is someone trying to cash in on something?