The only fairies here are the ones in their brains

Wee, look at the pretty little fairies!

Just an amusing story to quote:

A BUILDER was forced to design a luxury estate around a rock – because locals said fairies lived under it.

Work on the multi-million pound development ground to a halt when villagers complained that the fairies would be “upset”.

Marcus Salter, of Genesis Properties, estimates the colony of fairies believed to be under the rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him £15,000.

He said he first noticed possible problems when his diggers moved on to the site outside the village.

He said: “A neighbour came over shouting, ‘Don’t move that rock. You’ll kill the fairies.’ 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.”

The bemused builder then went to a meeting with the community council, where chairman Jeannie Fox told him: “I do believe in fairies but I can’t be sure that they live under that rock.

“There are a lot of superstitions going about up here and people do believe things like standing stones and large rocks should never be moved.”

The new development now centres on a small park with the “fairy” rock in the middle.

The Planning Inspectorate have no guidelines on fairies but a spokesman said: “Local customs and beliefs must be taken into account when applying for planning permission.”

Oh, crazy people.

(via The Daily Grail)