Dispensing Faith

An inventor in Italy has devised an electronic holy water dispenser after worrying over the possibility of people in public places contracting swine flu.

An inventor in Italy has made it easy for priests, perhaps for doctors and maybe for God. Luciano Marabese, from the romantically named northern Italian town of Fornaci di Briosco, has devised an electronic holy water dispenser after worrying over the possibility of people in public places contracting swine flu. The terracotta dispenser works like an automatic soap dispenser in public washrooms. You put your hand under the contraption and the sensor gets into the action and holy water issues forth. Now that he has outsourced God’s work to a machine, Marabese’s place in ‘paradiso’ seems assured.

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