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Pratt's Bottom P.A.N.T.S Crank Proceedings up a notch
with Wonderful World of Wax!
Pratt's
Bottom's dalliances with the world of psychotic
criminality have once again paid big dividends this
year. The Pratt's Bottom Psychotically Angst &
Neurotically Tense Society (P.A.N.T.S) have come up
trumps in repaying the faith of the villagers by
producing some wonderful waxworks to be displayed at
this years Christmas Bazaar. The Society (which is based
at the local minimum security facility on the site of
the old Regal cinema) has courted controversy since it
was first conceived of five years ago by former village
stalwart Marjorie Stewart-Walker. Marjorie was dismayed
by the treatment handed out to her own husband (Cuthbert
Stewart-Walker) when he was sectioned for self harm in
the late 1980's. 'Poor Bertie was trussed up in a strait
jacket and force fed tranquilisers for six weeks at the
traditional asylum he was in. The facility was more
familiar with treating criminals and did not believe in
allowing him any freedom. I won a court case and had him
returned home so that I could take proper care of him. I
vowed from then on that I would not rest until a more
understanding facility had been established in the
locality', explained Marjorie. Cuthbert passed away
peacefully in a drug induced overdose thirty-eight
minutes after returning home with Marjorie. Marjorie
blames Cuthberts death on the way he was treated in the
asylum, 'I accept that his 216 attempts at suicide did
make it seem as though he may have been unhappy before
being sectioned, but it was only once he had been
sectioned that he actually followed through with it!'
Although
faced with almost unanimous opposition to her scheme at
first, villagers warmed to the idea of housing lunatics
and sex cases in the heart of their community when the
EU pledged 32million euros in support for the facility.
Now, a
fully fledged part of Pratt's Bottom life, the P.A.N.T.S
members (as we like to call them) try to help raise
funds for the Bazaar charities every year. Last year's
sponsored baking challenge was cancelled when security
forces became concerned about forty-three participants
all ordering ingredients for a cake that consisted
purely of Sugar and weedkiller.
This year
has seen the inmates pooling their creative juices and
producing a selection of wax works purely from sketches
and C4 plastic explosive.... And what a collection it
is! Click on the image below to be transported to the
wonderful world of P.A.N.T.S Waxwporks:
 Jim
Davison - P.A.N.T.S style.
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