the blog quebecois

Yet again I am in possession of a hot story which has eluded the attention of the blogosphere. It reminds me all too well of the critical flaw in Chrétien's "Me too, Bill!" Kosovo War: The failure to appreciate that these people were truly, deeply nuts.

Mind you, the Serbs come off as kind of weird, too:

THE BODY of Slobodan Milosevic, the late president of Serbia and butcher of the Balkans, has suffered the indignity of having a wooden stake driven through the heart in a ritual "vampire exorcist" attack.

Days before the first anniversary of Milosevic's burial in his home town of Pozarevac, a young self-confessed "vampire hunter" and paid-up member of the local chapter of The Resistance, presumably to the Undead, dealt with the mortal remains of the late dictator in the time-honoured Balkan fashion.

The first anniversary of a man's death is a significant date in the Vampire Hunters' Almanac, apparently a well thumbed handbook in Serbia and other, even darker corners of the Balkans. Milosevic's significant anniversary date fell yesterday.

Concerned relatives are anxious to avoid a repeat performance:

Slobodan Milosevic's daughter Marija Milosevic has hired security guards to protect her father's body from vampire hunters.

The self-styled vampire hunters have already made one attempt at driving a wooden stake through the former dictator's heart to 'stop him returning from the dead'.

Oh, sure. Now she thinks of it.