Professional conduct…? They don’t have a prayer.
There are millions upon millions of people who believe in the power of prayers. Far from me to question the wisdom of the multitudes, of course. Who am I, for instance, to kick over the shrine of democracy, which has brought us such blessings as Nazi Germany, the Big Brother house and George Bush?
Still, sometimes prayer doesn’t work. Or, let’s say, that if it does, then it does so in highly inscrutable ways. What is absolutely certain though is that, if these two guys were asking the Lord not to lead them in temptation, God sure wasn’t paying attention at the time:
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — When the Rev. Fidelis Obdike opened his eyes after a prayer, the setting wasn’t the same. Gone were his laptop computer and the man with whom he was praying. Police arrested Carl Hagy, 41, on Wednesday on a theft charge after he allegedly pawned the computer.
Obidike told police officers he had bought a laptop computer from Hagy two weeks before. He said Hagy returned to the church on Friday and asked to pray. Obdike said he was praying with Hagy inside the church, but when he opened his eyes, Hagy and the computer were gone.
Of course, it might not have been absentmindedness on the part of the Creator. Maybe the good Reverend was just very bad at his job. That kind of thing does happen. People choosing or just ending up in jobs they’re not exactly suited for. (No, I’ve already done the ‘Bush is a the post turtle‘ joke. Let’s move on, folks!)
Right – so, I was talking about people not exactly being up to their jobs. Let’s give an example. If you had a product to sell would you hire the agency that came up with this idea…?
It is precisely the image of England usually guaranteed to keep tourists away in their droves, so it is perhaps a little odd for Eurostar to choose a picture of a skinhead urinating in a cup to promote travel to the UK.
The picture of a heavily tattooed, shaven-headed man wearing leather boots is part of an advertising campaign in Belgium designed to attract its citizens to London.
It’ a novel idea; I will give them that. A bit like shooting the next Coca Cola Light ad in Ethiopia. ‘Selling pork in Israel’ was what people used to call this when I grew up.
Anyway, there other folks who are not necessarily bad at their jobs but who do, at times, lack a certain professional judgement:
Seven air force crew including the two pilots are being probed by Thailand’s air force after they made the unscheduled hour-long stop in a rice paddy in western Kanchanaburi province on Tuesday, said air force spokesman Monthon Suchookorn.
Local press on Friday quoted villagers in Kanchanaburi who said they were perplexed when the chopper flew in low over the fields and then landed.
They asked the crew what they were doing, and one pilot replied that his mother had called and asked him to pick up some mushrooms, newspapers said.
Mind you, I would rather have an air force filled with people who went picking mushrooms for their mother occasionally than the trigger happy machos most armies seem to employ.
Still, when it comes to a total absence of anything like professional judgement and a devastating lack of suitability, look no further than a man called Vince Hogg:
An anger management counsellor has lost his job after beating up his partner.
Vince Hogg, 45, attacked Beverley Burns during a row at their Fife home, because he was angry about the fact a shower was leaking and caused a carpet to get wet.
The former psychiatric nurse tore the 42-year-old’s hair out and slammed her against a wall.
The assault took place shortly after he had taken up his counselling post.
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