Cuppacafe

By now I’m sure that many of you have already heard about the Christmas Eve attack on the pope. Here is some raw video footage of the attack (it happens almost immediately in the vid, and then repeats halfway through):

The attack, which was captured on video by a witness and rocketed around the Web yesterday, occurred as the 82-year-old pontiff was preparing for Christmas Eve Mass. As he moved toward the altar at St. Peter’s Basilica, a dark-haired woman, wearing a red top and what appeared to be blue jeans, leaped over a barrier.

When papal security guards tackled her immediately, she grabbed the pope’s vestments and dragged him to the ground. The woman, identified by the Vatican as a Swiss-Italian named Susanna Maiolo, 25, was taken to a clinic for mental health treatment.

I guess the world really is full of crazies, eh?

The Perfessor

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