Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Jesus Is On Fire!








MONROE, Ohio – A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.

The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.

The lightning strike set the statue ablaze around 11:15 p.m., Monroe police dispatchers said.

The sculpture, 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the torso up and was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the way the arms were raised, similar to a referee signaling a touchdown. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday

That's pretty damn funny, right there...

3 comments:

Steve said...

That's why you don't rip off Notre Dame and call your statue Touchdown Jesus.

Go Irish!

Kor said...

"It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame"

Metal Endo-skeleton? Fuck it all makes sense now, Jesus was a Terminator sent back through time to protect John "The Baptist" Connor's from Skynet!

Dan said...

It turns out Zeus has a sense of humor....