Touchdown Jesus Ohio torched by lightening strike

[pchall]

The I 75 eyesore and affront to art and religion burns to the ground.

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2009/06/17/king_fount_big.jpg

link (http://www.nesn.com/2010/06/touchdown-jesus-destroyed-by-lightning-in-ohio.html)

Thank you, Mother Nature!

[WickerBill]

That was known as Big Butter Jesus, I thought.

[Don Quixote]

Burned to the ground? What was it made of? Question for you lawyer types: Will this be considered a "hate crime". If you burned a church or a synagogue or mosque it would be, right?

[pchall]

Burned to the ground? What was it made of? Question for you lawyer types: Will this be considered a "hate crime". If you burned a church or a synagogue or mosque it would be, right?

Styrofoam, plaster, chicken wire, and wood.

Suing god over a "hate crime" -- there are Hawaiian lawyers who'll do that for ya. ;)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2292773034_7b5f18d676.jpg

[devilmaster]

Burned to the ground? What was it made of? Question for you lawyer types: Will this be considered a "hate crime". If you burned a church or a synagogue or mosque it would be, right?

Article says foam and fiberglass over metal frame.

I like how they built it so bloody close to the building too. Wonder if any of the parishoners are wondering about the wrath of God right now... :rofl:

The pastor of Solid Rock Church says the church does plan to rebuild the statue. damn.

[cameraman]

That thing was a hideous pile of styrofoam that was smote by an angry God.

[Don Quixote]

:o Oops, lightning. I was thinking vandalism. Styrofoam? I am surprised that it lasted this long.

[opinionated ow]

that thing is frankly hideous...church's that build those sort of monuments really should think about what it is they're trying to achieve.

[TrueBrit]

that thing is frankly hideous...church's that build those sort of monuments really should think about what it is they're trying to achieve.

Making money?

[dando]

@ first I thought you were writing about the one up in South Bend. Punishment for not joining the Big 10+2. :gomer:

-Kevin

[Al Czervik]

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2009/06/17/king_fount_big.jpg

link (http://www.nesn.com/2010/06/touchdown-jesus-destroyed-by-lightning-in-ohio.html)

Why does Jesus need two bidets?

<everyone around me takes three giant steps back>

[SteveH]

Thou Shalt Not Make Graven Images


just sayin'

[Michaelhatesfans]

That thing's a coat of paint away from being Bionic Bigfoot.




http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2292773034_7b5f18d676.jpg

[devilmaster]

Why does Jesus need two bidets?

<everyone around me takes three giant steps back>

F**k that. I'm hugging ya buddy. :rofl: :laugh:

If that's wrong, may God smite me down right now....

[edit]Still here! wait wait wait, my left n*t hurts....

[cameraman]

Thou Shalt Not Make Graven Images


just sayin'

+1:thumbup:

[Don Quixote]

+2

Statue cost $250k. I'm sure that's the way God would want that money spent. :thumdown:

[Gnam]

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/8931/buddychrist.jpg

This is why the Greeks and Romans started putting their giant styrofoam statues inside temples.

[dando]

http://jeeebus.wordpress.com/

http://www.vividideas.net/jeeebus/imgs/10tv.jpg

:gomer: :thumbup:

-Kevin

[Gnam]

:laugh:

[SteveH]

It all makes sense now.....

http://rlv.zcache.com/hook_em_horns_sticker-p217833362109390530qjcl_400.jpg

[SteveH]

IAAj1OiH-WA

[TKGAngel]

+2

Statue cost $250k. I'm sure that's the way God would want that money spent. :thumdown:

$250k for foam & fiberglass? :saywhat:

I can't fathom what the price tag would be if it was built out of stone.

[Napoleon]

I wonder it the statue will rise again in 3 days?

[TrueBrit]

I wonder it the statue will rise again in 3 days?

:rofl::D:laugh::D

[Methanolandbrats]

[QUOTE=Al Czervik;277869]Why does Jesus need two bidets?[QUOTE]

One for him and one for his boyfriend. (going outside to install a big ground strap on my house) :gomer:

[dando]

ZtlhKA7OE04

:gomer:

-Kevin

[Elmo T]

In the less PC days, we'd classify the fire cause for a lightening strike as an "act of god". ;)

[BarillaGirl]

In the less PC days, we'd classify the fire cause for a lightening strike as an "act of god". ;)

I've seen that monstrosity in person. I don't pretend to know the mind of God, but it's my opinion he wasn't as impressed with it as the builders were.

:flame::flame::flame:

[Michaelhatesfans]

Sarah Connor is safe until the next one, I guess.

http://www.vividideas.net/jeeebus/imgs/10tv.jpg

[Michaelhatesfans]

I wonder it the statue will rise again in 3 days?

I believe this is what fighter pilots refer to as a target rich enviornment...:laugh:

[Napoleon]

In the less PC days, we'd classify the fire cause for a lightening strike as an "act of god". ;)


What I find most amusing about this is that there is a certain segment of the religious population who is willing to publicly claim that things like 9/11 or Katrina is God taking retribution for things like a gay pride parade having occurred 10 weeks earlier, or something similar. I am going to guess though that we are going to hear nothing but crickets from that gang even though you know if that lightning strike hit, say, a minaret of a mosque being built in Rochester Minnesota for a congregation consisting largely of doctors who work at the Mayo Clinic it would be a whole different story.

[Napoleon]

Awesome, this story (http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/middletown-news/jesus-statue-fire-damages-estimated-at-700-000jesus-statue-fire-damages-estimated-at-700-000-762245.html) contains this quote:

“I can’t believe Jesus was struck,” said his brother, who noted the giant Hustler Hollywood sign for the adult store across the street was untouched. “It’s the last thing I expected to happen.”


And this quote from a local in this story "it's a sign, and not a good one."

http://www.whiotv.com/video/23901994/index.html

[cameraman]

And this quote from a local in this story "it's a sign, and not a good one."

Yeah, it's a sign that they didn't ground the stupid thing. ****wit.

[dando]

WVAZYI6IDTM

:gomer:

-Kevin

[Indy]

You are all going to burn for your comments.

Oh, wait...

[grungex]

I just want to be a part of this important thread...

:thumbup:

[Andrew Longman]

Napoleon you are forgetting the possibility they will see this as a sign from God to use the insurance money to build an even bigger "statue". One that can cast a longer shadow over the sins of the earth.

[Napoleon]

Napoleon you are forgetting the possibility they will see this as a sign from God to use the insurance money to build an even bigger "statue". One that can cast a longer shadow over the sins of the earth.

Since it looks like the steel superstructure of that thing survived it looks like the only check they will be getting is one to toss some more styrofoam on the surviving frame.



Yeah, it's a sign that they didn't ground the stupid thing. ****wit.

Not to sound snarky, but isn’t the fact that it was in fact attached to the ground make it grounded (seriously)? If it wasn’t grounded the lightning would not have struck it (you know like how birds can’t get shocked on electric lines). I am guessing you think there should have been some way for them to install a lightning rod that would be isolated from the medal frame and separately grounded. After all, isn’t that how electric gizmos with a grounding plug work, the idea is that if the current is charging the outside of the gizmo that instead of using you to ground it uses the ground that is built into it and is more conductive to ground instead. The problem they have is that unlike a human that is not very conductive and so it is easy to ground around the human they built something with a steel frame.

Maybe when they reinstall styrofoam Jesus they can have him holding a lightning rod disguised as a band leader’s baton up to the sky, or something like that. I mean somewhere or other in the Bible Jesus must have lead a band, right?

Or how about this they can have him holding a big bottle of wine up in the sky and claim it is a scene from the Wedding at Cana.

Edit – the more I think of it the fact the sign across the street was not hit is likely more then a funny coincidence. I bet sign manufacturers long ago realized that those things are just catnip for lightning bolts and they somehow are built so you do not have metal that runs from the top of the sign uninterrupted into the ground.

[cameraman]

The idea of a lightning system is to divert the energy around what you are protecting. The tall signs have lightning systems which divert the charge around the outside of the sign rather than through it. The lightning strike on that stupid statue probably had the charge conducted over its dusty wet surface rather than through the fiberglass/foam covering the metal frame. Point being there probably isn't a good way to protect an idiotic multi-story foam statue. Never the less calling it a bad sign from God is just dumb.

[nrc]

What I find most amusing about this is that there is a certain segment of the religious population who is willing to publicly claim that things like 9/11 or Katrina is God taking retribution for things like a gay pride parade having occurred 10 weeks earlier, or something similar.

And Boobquakes. Don't forget Boobquakes. :gomer:

[dando]

JYMwt_JPB4U

:gomer:

-Kevin

[Andrew Longman]

OK Kevin.Having spent a lot of my life from a very young age driving across Oh Hi Oh to get to Michigan and beyond, THAT is why I hate and fear Ohio State. :gomer:

[dando]

OK Kevin.Having spent a lot of my life from a very young age driving across Oh Hi Oh to get to Michigan and beyond, THAT is why I hate and fear Ohio State. :gomer:

@ least OSUtards figgered out how to embed videos.... :p

-Kevin

[TravelGal]

OK Kevin.Having spent a lot of my life from a very young age driving across Oh Hi Oh to get to Michigan and beyond, THAT is why I hate and fear Ohio State. :gomer:

It's obvious you didn't stop because it's Oh HI Ah. Sheesh. :rolleyes:

[Don Quixote]

It's obvious you didn't stop because it's Oh HI Ah. Sheesh. :rolleyes:Actually, its uh-hi-yah. :rolleyes: :D

[Andrew Longman]

It's obvious you didn't stop because it's Oh HI Ah. Sheesh. :rolleyes:

As a family we got pit stops on the Oh HI Ah turnpike down into the sub 2 minute range. Had to keep moving.

[TravelGal]

Actually, its uh-hi-yah. :rolleyes: :D

:rofl: ROFL. I stand corrected. Guess I've been gone so long that I have rehabilitated my speech.

[SurfaceUnits]

Thou Shalt Not Make Graven Images
just sayin'

I doubt any Jewish people had anything to do with it being there

[Indy]

catnip for lightning bolts

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[BarillaGirl]

:rofl: ROFL. I stand corrected. Guess I've been gone so long that I have rehabilitated my speech.

Trying spendin a decade up nort, der hey. You'll be callin pop a soda and drinkin at da bubbler when you're not drivin to da store for squeaky cheese.

[Napoleon]

Trying spendin a decade up nort, der hey. You'll be callin pop a soda . . . ..


Huh? People in Ohio use pop. You are thinking of the northeast.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/

[Indy]

coke: this generic term for soft drinks predominates throughout the South, New Mexico, central Indiana and in a few other single counties in Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. ‘Coke’ obviously derives from Coca-Cola, the brand-name of the soft drink originally manufactured in Atlanta (which explains its use as a generic term for all soft drinks in the South).

:gomer::gomer::gomer:

[STD]

Huh? People in Ohio use pop. You are thinking of the northeast.


You don't need no stinkin' badgers? :rofl:

[BarillaGirl]

Huh? People in Ohio use pop. You are thinking of the northeast.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/

That's the point, Napoleon, I'm a displaced Buckeye.

[Don Quixote]

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/Great map!

[nrc]

Pop. Soda is acceptable. "Coke" is just wrong unless you're talking about a Coca Cola brand cola.

[TKGAngel]

Trying spendin a decade up nort, der hey. You'll be callin pop a soda and drinkin at da bubbler when you're not drivin to da store for squeaky cheese.

Squeaky cheese is cheese curds, right? Love them.

And while we're at it, it's pop, not soda. Sucker, not lollipop. Swear, not cuss. Sneakers, not tennis shoes. :D

[Ankf00]

It's a coke. pop is a sound, and soda is for the chemistry lab.

[Napoleon]

pop is a sound

In law school half my class was in state (Ohio) and out of state, primarily from the north east, and the discussions on stuff like this and I recall once using pop to a guy from NJ who said "pop? That is a stiletto punch to the face."

[devilmaster]

since we're completely off the rails here....

I always get a kick out of servers who ask me what i'd like to drink, and on the occasions I don't get a beer (no, really!) i usually say 'coke or pepsi, whatever ya got.'

then 90% of the time they say 'coke ok?' (or pepsi if thats what they carry)

Did i not just say that? :confused: :shakehead

[devilmaster]

Oh and btw, only OC could take a thread about a torched bust of Jesus and turn it into an english language thread about cola soda pop.

George Carlin would be proud of us. :D

[Elmo T]

Sounds like a win/win to me...

Church declines PETA offer to rebuild Jesus statue with vegan message (http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/church-declines-peta-offer-to-rebuild-jesus-statue-with-vegan-message-776417.html)

[devilmaster]

:laugh:

Now -thats- funny.

[Gnam]

Huh? People in Ohio use pop. You are thinking of the northeast.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/

Check out Alaska. The coke/soda/pop debate must consume the majority of print, radio, and personal communication.

[Napoleon]

Check out Alaska. The coke/soda/pop debate must consume the majority of print, radio, and personal communication.



I had not even noticed that. Funny.

The anomalies are the interesting part (in addition to the Mason-Dixon line being visible). The greater St. Louis area, Wisconsin lakeside from Milwaukee up through Green Bay to the UP, southern Fla. (northeastern retirees?), NC and SC being lighter or “flipped” (I presume by migration from the north).

[Elmo T]

PA is is pretty much an east/west split. Go to PSU - no need to ask what part of the state they are from - just wait for the drink order.

[chop456]

"Coke" is just wrong unless you're talking about a Coca Cola brand cola.

Or if someone asks you what the impetus behind the IRL was.

[nrc]

Or if someone asks you what the impetus behind the IRL was.

:rofl: :tony:

[TKGAngel]

And Boobquakes. Don't forget Boobquakes. :gomer:

It wasn't a boobquake, but a 5.5 earthquake just hit Canuckistan and was felt here in Buffalo.:saywhat:

[Don Quixote]

Or if someone asks you what the impetus behind the IRL was.I don't get it. :tony:

[devilmaster]

Just bored, but google earth satellite shot of solid rock church is -post- fire. :)