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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:05 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:30 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:39 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:57 am
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Ohio Jesus statue struck by lightning, destroyed
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 his arms were raised, as though reaching out to catch a football. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday.
The fire spread from the statue to an adjacent amphitheater but was confined to the attic area, and no one was injured, police Chief Mark Neu said. The fire department would release a monetary damage estimate Tuesday, he said.
Travelers on Interstate 75 often were startled to come upon the huge statue by the roadside, but many said America needs more symbols like it. So many people stopped at the church campus that church officials had to build a walkway to accommodate them.
The 4,000-member, nondenominational church was founded by former horse trader Lawrence Bishop and his wife. Bishop said in 2004 he was trying to help people, not impress them, with the statue. He said his wife proposed the Jesus figure as a beacon of hope and salvation and they spent about $250,000 to finance it
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:00 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:13 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:15 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:18 am
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nurmedina OTAI90 apesal kebelakangan ni byk sgt random friend request ek hari ni jek dpt 10 Kite serupe. ~ @ KOA - ko ni ingat $$$ jek bkan ingat nyawa. rofl
mesti lar.. $_$kekeke.. lagi pon bukan ader org kena patung tu..
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:19 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:29 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 6:31 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:23 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:27 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:32 am
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XxL0n3lyzxX hrmmm~~~ kopi + milo yer~~ kolo~~ or PiMi~~ or KoMiPiLo~~
Kite amik nescafe je laa camnih. gonk
Alert: kat sini bkan ade member agama.. Kristian..?
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