BBC is obviously bored

[Richard]

This is front page news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4151230.stm

Teen tied to post in paint attack

A teenager has been tied to a lamppost and covered in paint in south Belfast.

The attack was carried out outside a women's centre at Broadway, just off the Donegall Road, by three men wearing balaclavas at about 1345 BST on Sunday.

When an ambulance arrived, the 15-year-old boy was still attached to the lamppost by cable ties. He has been taken to Belfast City Hospital.

According to local residents, a crowd had gathered to watch the scene. Police have appealed for information.

How come I didn't get to be on the front page?  Mind you, I wasn't painted all over, but I was naked when the campus police came around.

Is there something significant about this that I'm missing?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's the main news item in Northern Ireland today and the BBC sticks the headline up from each part of the U.K on the front page.

[patrick1]

This also must be put into context because tying someone to a lampost with barbwire was once a common practice among the Loyalist death squads; chief among them the Belfast branch of the UVF known as the Shankill butchers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankill_Butchers