God speed nun in mercy dash to aid the Pope
Hallo, hallo, hallo, what have we got here then? I am having nun of that...
In a country where speeding is a national sport, Italian traffic police are used to hearing the most colourful of excuses from drivers.
But the patrol that pulled over a Ford Fiesta on Friday doing 112mph was surprised to find at the wheel a 56-year-old nun who claimed she needed to be at the pope's side after the pontiff lost his balance in the bathroom and broke his wrist.
In the back were two fellow Salesian nuns, aged 65 and 78, who had jumped in the car in Turin when news broke of Pope Benedict's fall near Aosta, where he is spending his summer holiday.
"The police chose not to forgive the nun, pointing out that she was 30mph over the limit. They suspended her licence for a month and issued a €375 (£323) fine. But AM is a "determined sort", said her lawyer, Anna Orecchioni.
"She is planning to appeal and we think we can invoke the 'state of necessity' in the law that allows speeding," Orecchioni said".
The lawyer is also defending a priest who claims that communion wine pushed him over the drink drive limit, and she convinced a court that a Muslim imam's asthma medicine had given him twice the legal limit of alcohol!
The Lord and the law works in mysterious ways...
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