Beckham/Posh Spice Nativity scene physically attacked

[KurtNYC]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/13/beckhams.nativity.reut/index.html

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A protester has attacked a controversial waxwork Nativity scene featuring England soccer captain David Beckham as Joseph and his pop star wife "Posh Spice" Victoria as the Virgin Mary.

"He pushed Posh and Becks over. It caused some damage but we don't know how much. The baby Jesus is fine," said a spokeswoman for Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum in London on Monday.

[Menshevik]

1. lol

people are nuts. I bet it was some American fundie on vacation.

[passy]

2. The most sickening bit is this though.

"Tony Blair, George W. Bush and the Duke of Edinburgh star as The Three Wise Men."

[morgan2]

4. I think they were going for irony

they did put someone whose famous for dressing like a whore and singing as the virgin mary.

[passy]

7. At least the rest of them aren't war criminals.

[Chandler Stork]

3. I assume it was an eveangelical type?

The irony is delicious - a true-believer destroying a nativity because it contains a couple of celebrity simulacra? My sensibilities are far more offended by the plastic front-yard nativity scenes that seem to show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus in attendance at the birth of the Lord.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Nah, probably a Geri Halliwell groupie

or a disgruntled football (sic) fan....

[KurtNYC]

6. They haven't caught the person yet but

that would be a great ironic headline "Fundie Vandalizes Nativity Scene."

[passy]

8. I would have decapitated * and run away with his head.