⛪️ Nuns Flee Care Home For Their Abandoned Convent

Nuns on the run!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. It's time once again for Amanda's
evening Scroll. This is just a couple of things I
saw on my evening scroll. This is a story from Austria.
Three nuns in their eighties have run away from their
retirement home. They were placed in the retirement home. They
weren't happy, so they've run back. They ran away back

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to their former convent. They're eighty eight, eighty six and
eighty two. Sister reader, she's the young feisty one. Yep,
so the last three nuns at their convent just outside Salzburg.
They regained access with the help of former students and
a locksmith because they'd been put They've been promised that
they could stay at that convent till they couldn't, till
they all passed away, but instead they were shipped out

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and put into a nursing home. A convent in nursing
home is well, one is one that's been their home,
probably for their lives, and a nursing home has a
very different vibe to a convent. If you're a Catholic.
Nuns aren't living like p Diddy. They've got you know,
they have a meager existence and maybe they liked the
more meager existence in the convent, the retirement. Her home

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is fancy. Ooh yu, I'm cruel again. Maybe we'll never
know that. But they said they've been given the right
to stay there until the end of our lives. That
was broken. So they've run away. They're happy and thankful
to be home. But then I saw this other story.
This is from nineteen eighty five. When you read it,
it sounds like something that happened in the nineteen thirties.
This story is quite extraordinary. So two boys in nineteen

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eighty five, they're from Dublin. One of them was ten
years old and one of them was thirteen. They made
headlines around the world when they made their way to
New York. Really yeah. So Keith, who was one of them,
spoke recently on a documentary. He said he and his
friends decided his friend decided that maybe they'd go to
New York because they wanted to meet Ba Baracus from

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the eighteen So here's what happened. Aspirational Their adventures started
when they went out to play before dinner, and Keith
said that his mum said, don't go far, your dinner's
near ready, and he said, I won't, so what they did.
They they took the train to Don Laguerre and they
snuck onto a ferry to Holyhead. Emboldened by that success,

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they avoided ticket checkers and got onto a train to London.
Eventually they found their way to Heathrow Airport. All they
had was a few coins between them that they'd taken
from a charity fountain. Once they were at Heathrow, they
asked a random passenger where that plane was going, and
he said that it was New York. So they told
the person checking the tickets and the security that their

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parents were behind them, and they got onto an Air
India plane. Oh, they said, the plane was only half full,
so no one came near us. So they flew to
New York on an Air India plane. But this was
extraordinary given that two months earlier, an Air India jet
had blown up off southwest of Ireland, killing three hundred
and twenty nine people. That's how lax their security was.

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Just a few months after that, it happens could to
say that Andy has got better as they've gone on.
So they say that they couldn't eat the hot curry
on the plane, but they did enjoy watching a view
to a kill, and so the journey version. The journey
came to an end when they left JFK Airport and
asked a policeman for the way quote into town. He
got suspicious. They were apprehended. This was hilarious. Authorities took

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no chances. They were put in a hotel suite with
five security guards. But Keith said, there were belts. There
were chips everything. We fed like lords. We loved it.
There was BLTs, but no b a barracus, No pity
of the fool. What an adventure. That is great. And
that's the fruits of your loins, of my scrolling. Okay,
do we have an intro for fruits of your loins