Story of drunk lad who steals statue goes viral because it sounds like a sitcom
Over on Twitter Connor McLaughlin has been remembering when he got drunk with his mates and stole a statue of the Virgin Mary.
6 years since I got drunk with my mates. Brought a Mary statue home and left it in the garden. Forgot about it and had to pretend I had no idea about it and the newspaper came to take a photo to find out where it came from. look at my Dad pic.twitter.com/6Al3qlWlTN
— Connor McLaughlin (@_ConnorM) February 5, 2018
This is how the local paper reported it.
Tim McLaughlin thought his son had been drinking when he told him the Virgin Mary was in the front garden.
Drawing back the curtains of his Whalley Road house in Clayton-le-Moors, the support worker could hardly believe his eyes when he saw the biblical statue.
The 4ft tall plastic holy figure mysteriously arrived during the hours of darkness last Sunday.
Tim, 49, who works for Calderstones NHS Trust in the Ribble Valley, said: ‘I got up on Monday morning and discovered she had just been left in my garden. My son saw it first. When I opened the curtains she was just stood at the bottom of the garden facing the house.’
And that wasn’t all.
Then a couple of weeks later the church contacted us and came to pick her up pic.twitter.com/CVEv4b33KR
— Connor McLaughlin (@_ConnorM) February 5, 2018
This is what Father Peter Birmingham had to say.
“It was probably a drunk playing a prank as he walked down the street.”
Indeed.
“she was just sitting in the lounge I was wondering what I was going to do with her” looooool your dad
— court (@courtneybithell) February 5, 2018
Took me years to admit the truth to him
— Connor McLaughlin (@_ConnorM) February 5, 2018
You didn’t find Mary…SHE found YOU.
— Fr. Paul Stone (@FrPaulStone) February 5, 2018