They Paved Paradise and Put Jesus in a Parking Lot!
Right here in my home state of Oregon (pronounced "Oh-Ree-Gone" by virtually everyone except those who live here), the Corvallis Gazette Times reports that some nutball "dressed as Jesus Christ made a brief appearance Saturday in the parking lot of an Albany shopping center. According to a police dispatch report, Albany officers received a call at about 3:25 p.m. from someone complaining about a man dressed as Jesus, covered with fake blood, being scourged by another man with a rope in a 14th Avenue parking lot near Safeway and G.I. Joes. The caller said his children were upset by the display and that shopping plaza employees were trying to get "Jesus" to leave. The dressed-up man kept walking, the caller said. The dispatch report stated that police checked the area and did not locate anyone matching the description, nor did they receive any other calls. However, one officer wrote, "I am confident that (Jesus) will be back some day soon."