NRO's The Corner amazingly found time to look at this, and then I decided it was too good to pass up:

Fairies stop developers' bulldozers in their tracks

By Will Pavia and Chris Windle

VILLAGERS who protested that a new housing estate would “harm the fairies” living in their midst have forced a property company to scrap its building plans and start again.

Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him £15,000. His first notice of the residential sensibilities of the netherworld came as his diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts of the village, which crowns the easterly shore of Loch Earn.

He said: “A neighbour came over shouting, ‘Don’t move that rock. You’ll kill the fairies’.” The rock protruded from the centre of a gently shelving field, edged by the steep slopes of Dundurn mountain, where in the sixth century the Celtic missionary St Fillan set up camp and attempted to convert the Picts from the pagan darkness of superstition.

“Then we got a series of phone calls, saying we were disturbing the fairies. I thought they were joking. It didn’t go down very well,” Mr Salter said.

In fact, even as his firm attempted to work around the rock, they received complaints that the fairies would be “upset”.

The only trouble I see here is that we've probably now got a bunch of lawyers in the United States working on how to bring this before a court. You can hold a developer up for ransom with something like this, especially as we've got as many superstitious dolts in the States as they do in Scotland. Next thing we know, building a new home will be blocked because the ghosts in the old home would be upset...

Posted by Mark Noonan at January 25, 2006 12:43 PM

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Did these people escape from their handlers? ;-)
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Posted by: Chris Meisenzahl at January 25, 2006 01:47 PM

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Posted by: george at January 25, 2006 02:14 PM

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These are the same Moon Bats that think Keebler REALLY has Elves...

Posted by: TexasFred at January 25, 2006 03:44 PM

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Read this closely and you see why. Someone tried to lift a group of pagans from the darkness of superstition and primitive thinking. The Left will fight this effort everywhere, especially in the House and Senate.

Posted by: Gannymede at January 25, 2006 03:49 PM

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How very typical, fairies living under a rock. At least mine live under my maple trees. Thanks for the laugh Mark. Too cute.

Posted by: uffy at January 25, 2006 07:25 PM

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*Chuckles*

I'm quite superstitous myself so I'm not quite as apt to just "blow off" what these folks are saying. Personally I would have gone out there and had someone help me "move the faries" before we got back to work. It doesn't cost much to deal with folks in a way that allows me to get my job done.

That's just me though.

Posted by: Gozer at January 25, 2006 07:46 PM

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No harm...the world can use a little magic in it

Posted by: Serapheem at January 26, 2006 02:11 AM

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You eejit. There not trying to protect fairies. They are attempting to preseve St Fillan's landmark. I thought Republicans were about preserving all things Christian.

The commission rejected preserving the spot because St. Fillan is not a well-recognized saint. Fairies are the best way to catch the attention of the world to preserve this historical Christian landmark.

Posted by: Emur Mulandry at January 26, 2006 07:39 AM

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Thats amazing...fairies living under a rock. Should be interesting to see where this goes...if anywhere.

Posted by: Sam28 at January 26, 2006 02:41 PM

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