Man arrested while attempting to destroy the Magna Carta

elodieunderglass:

mostlysignssomeportents:

The Salisbury Journal’s Rebecca Hudson reports that a 45-year-old man was arrested today after “smashing the case of the Magna Carter with a hammer and trying to destroy it.”

A spokesman for Salisbury Cathedral said: “We can confirm that at the
end of the afternoon yesterday, a man attempted to break into the case
which houses Magna Carta in the Cathedral’s Chapter House. He was
arrested by police shortly afterwards and taken into custody. We are
very relieved that no one was hurt during the incident and that the
Magna Carta itself is undamaged.”

Magna Carta 1215 is the best surviving copy of one of Britain’s most
influential legal documents, and is on permanent display at Salisbury
Cathedral. It is regarded by historians as the foundation of
constitutional liberty in the English-speaking world.

Raging at limits on a monarch’s absolute authority over other agents of the feudal state? Now that’s dark enlightenment. The Forest Charter was the good one anyway, as far as the rest of us are concerned.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/26/man-arrested-while-attempting.html

Hey but seriously Terry Pratchett was the only thing keepin The West Country from PHYSICALLY flinging itself into orbit, and this is just going to happen more and more often until someone restores a haunted gold torc to the barrow under the chalk.