100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II collapses & kills man 2 days before canonization

[Liberal_in_LA]

100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II collapses and crushes a man to death just two days before he is declared a saint



That's a bad sign: 100ft crucifix built in honour of John Paul II collapses and crushes a man to death just two days before he is declared a saint

Marco Gusmini was killed when the sculpture fell in Cevo, northern Italy
The 21-year-old tourist had been visiting the Alpine village on a church trip
100ft high wooden cross was built in honour of John Paul II in 1998
It fell suddenly during a ceremony in lead up to his canonization on Sunday


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2612401/Thats-bad-sign-100ft-crucifix-built-honour-John-Paul-II-collapses-crushes-man-death-just-two-days-canonization.html#ixzz2zr9QHycZ

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Maybe The Lord is getting sick and tired of white, ripped Jesi?

Jesuses? Well, whatever the plural is.

[Historic NY]

2. Ooops.

[NightWatcher]

3. and God said "I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin"

Accidents happen.

[HooptieWagon]

4. God has spoken. nt

[hedgehog]

5. Jesus is quoted several times as stating that we shouldn't try to read

significance into such events.

[immoderate]

9. And he didn't have to be a god to know that.

There's some irony there ... somewhere.

--imm

[Tsiyu]

6. I am surely going to hell

and that's all that I can say......

[NightWatcher]

10. we're all going to Hell here, I'm working on getting good seats down near the band

[dhill926]

12. what's the drink minimum?

[ohnoyoudidnt]

15. I shouldn't have clicked the link to finish reading. nt

[pscot]

7. Always a bad sign.

[postulater]

8. Oh, I thought that was that Sadaam guy.

Wrong religion I guess.

[Submariner]

11. They're going to make that asshole child rape enabler a saint?

holy crap, what is the world coming to when a pedophiles enabler can be canonized. That religion is more f*cked up than I thought it could get. How gross and absurd.

[SwankyXomb]

23. Someone has to be the

patron saint of child rapists.

[mindwalker_i]

13. Somebody's going to be rather cross about that

And whoever let it happen will get nailed.

[Art_from_Ark]

22. It's certainly going to be a thorny issue

[fujiyama]

14. Sad. But I guess the laws of physics don't follow the laws of God...

And ultimately bad engineering is still bad engineering.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. It's a miracle

that no one else died.

[Recursion]

17. I've heard the rumor that Benedict's retirement was the price for rushing JPII's canonization

Not sure if that's true, but it definitely makes sense...

[Kelvin Mace]

18. "Do I have to hit you people over the head?"

"OK!"

ZOT!

"Shit! You still didn't get the message? JESUS!"

"What?"

"Oh, shut up."

[Orrex]

19. That's just plain rood.

I think we've found the crux of the problem

[pinboy3niner]

20. Way to get your point a cross

[Orrex]

21. Nice!

[cherokeeprogressive]

24. BREAKING: Shit Happens.

This "artistic" display killed a woman.

http://articles.philly.com/1991-10-28/news/25815316_1_lori-keevil-mathews-christo-umbrellas

"The umbrellas are to be recycled, in keeping with Christo's desire to make his projects once-in-a-lifetime experiences."

He (Christo) shoots... he SCORRRRES!