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Date: January 01, 2012 02:13PM
I've been sitting on a story for a couple of months now, waiting for the right time to share it. I figured everyone here at RFM could stand a good laugh to start out the New Year's, so here it goes.
I've got a good friend still in the church who is on his way out. He's waiting until his divorce in finalized and then he's gone, so good for him. I'm sorry about his divorce, but frankly his wife, well she gave me to heebie-jeebies. No kids, so this should make things a bit easier. Still, its been rough. Fortunately it hasn't ruined his sense of humor.
My friend is the Scoutmaster at my former local ward. The local bishop, who is an asshat of epic proportions, has this *thing* for Monson. So he managed to coerced the funding of this statue of Monson wearing a Scout Leaders uniform from the members. It was built and dedicated a couple of months back during the summer. They had some GA come and say some words, etc.
The funny part of the story is that this was the Scout's service project and involved a lot of their time and money raising effects. The church of course, paid nothing. A lot of arm twisting and threatening by the bishop pulled this project off, but in the process, made every scout invovled hate him.
I watched over the spring and summer as my friend when through the garbage of organizing workparties, paying off contractors, arranging shipments, even spending some of his own money so the job could be finished. In short, he ran the whole thing. Now you'd think there would be gratitude, right? Nope.
He didn't even get a thank you, in fact a left handed comment about his participation was all he got, then he was uncermoniously dumped from his calling to be replaced by the Bishop's son, who had just conviently returned from a mission.
He stayed in the calling long enough to take credit for the statue's completion, then was called in the EQP after it was over. To add insult to injury, they tried after that to call my friend back as a Scoutmaster! Can you believe the gall? My friend told them to shove it. Good for him!
Anyways, towards the end of the project, the boys had had enough. They pulled a prank that I'm still laughing about today. My friend told me when he got wind of it and totally ignored them, letting them get away with it.
These scouts snuck over to the church right after the statue was complete and drilled a small hole in the crotch of monson's statue. They filled the interior of Monson's state with blue dyed water, so essentially, Monson was peeing a blue streak!
The stream as it was just a dribble, but enough so you could hear it when it hit the pavement. It was like he was leaking.
They did this the night before the unveil, so it was hilarious hearing my friend talk about how embarrassed the bishop and his son were the next day in front of the GA. Every attempt to plug it failed. The whole front of the statue was blue and the boys were running around saying that Monson had blue balls!
The clever boys had even drilled holes in the statue's head so it could continue to forever pee as rainwater/condensation would continue to keep the statute topped off. LOL!
I understand the bishop had a witch hunt trying to round up the defacers of Monson's statute, but he failed. Oh, the misery.
Only in the morg...
LOL