A different type of house of worship…
In a crazy move that’s equal parts hilarious and just straight up outrageous, a UK tequila bar owner has applied to register his venue as a place of worship, in a desperate attempt to get around UK COVID-19 measures.
James Aspell, owner of the 400 Rabbits bar in Nottingham, has specifically applied for the bar to be registered as “The Church of 400 Rabbits” and is now trying to get a congregation together (this just keeps getting better).
He’s really gone to a lot of effort for the whole shebang, creating a site for the pending church that reads “Join us as we begin our journey to answer absolutely none of life’s big questions. Such questions as why are we here, what’s the meaning of life, why didn’t they just fly the eagles to Mordor and why did Dominos stop making the double decadence pizza base?!
“Our aim is simple, to offer a place of worship to our deity the mezcal bunny. A place where you can drink mezcal without having to order a carvery dinner alongside it, a place where you aren’t kicked out into the cold heartless night at 10pm.” That last part really hits close to home.
The move comes as the UK prepares to ender Tier 3 restrictions on December 2, which will make places of worship one of the few places to remain open throughout the lockdown. Even though the whole plan might just seem like a bit of a piss-take from Aspell, it comes from a serious place, with the bar owner saying “With the new restrictions we’re forced to close and it could be months before we can reopen. We don’t have a food offering so even if we were in tier two, we couldn’t open.
“We feel like we’ve been targeted unfairly, to an extent and it seems wrong. Everything from gyms to massage parlours can stay open and even the Christmas markets are happening – that was the point when I thought, this is ridiculous. So we have sent in an application to register as a place of worship.”
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