"... smote and rendered asunder...."

I think I’ve got a new favorite newspaper lead of all time, written by Tony Tharp of The Pamlico News:

“BEAR CRASHES CHURCH EVENT
Surprise visitor shatters glass door and streaks down hallway

And it came to pass at 9:30 p.m. Thursday that a huge black bear emerged from the wilderness and smote and rendered asunder a glass door at the Bayboro Baptist Church and entered therein, frightening a wedding party and setting off a rash of jokes as bad as this lead.”

Seems like a really neat paper, coming out of Oriental, NC, weekly. Check it out at www.pamliconews.com....