SURGEONS REATTACH YOUNG SHEPHERDS PENIS

Thessaloniki, 12 May 2000 (10:31 UTC+2)

Thessaloniki surgeons have successfully reattached a 13-year-old's penis that was torn off in a freak machinery accident on Wednesday.

The young shepherd, whose name has not been disclosed, was grazing his family's flock of sheep when he stood too close to machinery located at a sewage treatment plant outside his village in Halkidiki.

According to his statement, his shoelace became entangled in the machinery before he felt an excruciating pain in his groin area. Despite the massive hemorrhaging, the young boy walked back to his village clutching his detached penis inside a bag of fertilizer.

Hospital officials have stated that, while the penis has been successfully reattached, tests over the next few days will show whether the organs functions will fully recover.

A.F.

Hmmm, well .... makes one wonder what this little fellow was up to, doesn't it?! One also has to wonder if that when the Heavenly Host descended upon the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks in the fields by night, if they didn't interrupt anything when they announced Christ's birth! After all, the shepherds are described as being "sore afraid." No mention as to how the sheep felt, in the King James Version. :p