He took a good beaning

A 56-year-old man was killed on Thursday when he was buried under a 20-foot (6.1 m) mound of pinto beans at a warehouse in Colorado. Raymond Segura Junior was pronounced dead at the Kelley Bean Company's facility in Brush, Colorado after dozens of rescue workers and even four inmates from the county jail had spent an hour digging through all those legumes to get to the trapped worker, but he was dead when the crews reached him. This should never have happened and neither should this: the BBC said yesterday that blasphemy is part of "everyday language" and refused to apologise to a vicar who complained about comments made by Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson. Mr Clarkson was filmed shouting "Jesus wept" while driving a KTM X-bow open top sports car in an episode that was broadcast on the 4th. He also said "God Almighty" while driving a Bentley powered by a Spitfire engine. The vicar of St Mary's church in Radcliffe-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire said he would avoid the motor show in future, accusing the BBC of double standards where religion was concerned. Even though most religions are all the same rubbish, we should respect them.