More Historical Apologies

Other countries follow Belgium's lead.

Following the admission of historical wrongdoing by the Belgian town of Lier, municipalities all around the world are lining up with their own apologies.

According to the UK's i newspaper, the town of Lier is "sorry for burning woman 431 years ago" as a witch.

FNN has learned that other admissions of wrongdoing include:

  • Hong Kong - for looking up that Scotsman's kilt during the handover ceremony in 1999
  • Hawaii - for bludgeoning Captain James Cook to death in 1779
  • London - for burning Guy Fawkes at the stake for trying to blow up the houses of Parliament
  • San Francisco - for incarcerating the birdman of Alcatraz
  • Rouen - for William the Conqueror's "harrying of the North" of England
  • Stockholm - for stealing the recipe for Swedish meatballs from the Turks

Here at FNN we are sure that a flood of admissions of past wrongdoing is in the pipeline. 

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