This is something I stumbled across in Joseph Harper's "White Board News:" This item comes by way of John Reiher: Bamford, England: A Vicar continued praying when a ferret disappeared up his cassock during a communion service. The Reverend Stephen Grey, of St. Michael's Church, Bamford, near Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was alerted to the interloper when a woman worshipper screamed and jumped upon a pew. "I looked up and there it was, staring at me," he said yesterday. "It went three times around my cassock and then stuck its head underneath." Eventually, the ferret -- believed to be a pet -- was ejected from the church after biting a parishioner's thumb. "I was trained to carry on regardless, but I must admit the prayers speeded up a bit towards the end," Mr. Grey said. -- John Campanie [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1559]