A Timely Bit Of Advice

Take it from your pals at Blue Crab Boulevard, generally speaking, if a priest offers to let you play in a bathtub with his naked girlfriend, it is a pretty good bet that a) the priest is not really a priest and b) that the pair is trying to rip you off. How do we know this? Simple, we read this story.

VIENNA, Dec 6 (Reuters Life!) - A bogus priest and his girlfriend tricked an Austrian pensioner out of $200 after promising him a naked bathtub session with the woman.

"The bogus priest and his girlfriend ran a bath for the pensioner, who undressed and got in straight away," a police spokeswoman in the northern Austrian town of Linz said on Wednesday.

The pensioner waited in the tub for about 10 minutes, but when he heard cupboards being opened and closed in the living room, he emerged from the bathroom and chased the pair out of his flat, she said.

"The credulous 65-year-old pensioner was waiting in vain in the bathtub … while the suspect stole about 150 euros ($200) in cash from his living room," a police statement said.

I don't think 'credulous' is quite the word the police wanted to use in the report. Just guessing. Incidentally, the "priest" and his girlfriend have run the scam on at least four other people. Credulousness is catching, apparently.