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Posted by mm on July 20, 2007, 7:04 pm
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:10:43 -0700, Higgs Boson wrote:
>wrote:
>
>>A week or two ago, a church in Baltimore was hit by lightning and
>>burned to shreds, other than the brick walls iiuc.
>>
>>It turns out that they had remodeled the steeple within the past year.
>>
>>It was the highest steeple in miles. It occurred to me that it would
>>have had a lightning rod, even in Baltimore.
>>
>>It also occurred to me that maybe the contractor didn't recognize a
>>lightning rod when he saw one.
And therefore moved it or removed it, I meant.
> Or disconnected it and forgot to
>>reconnect it.
>>
>>What do you think?
>>
>>(Today I heard on the radio, quoting the newspaper, that the church
>>was 12,000 dollars behind on the water bill and the mortgage was being
>>foreclosed, but last year it bought the minister a 150,000 dollar
>>Bentley. Maybe he tried to save money by hiring someone cheap? The
>>church is insured for 4 million and that bill is paid.)
>>
>>
>Care to say what religion/denomination that church was?
>
>If there is a God, he/she/it must be snickering up a storm!
>
>Whatta gig -- a $150,000 Bentley for preaching morality to suckers
>while not paying the water bill or the mortgage! Where can I score a
>deal like that?!
>
>Higgs Boson
All of you seem a bit more intersted in the car than in the lightning
rod, so I'll add another line. It turns out the minister didn't
return a call placed yesterday placed to his home 25 plus miles from
the church, a 3,800-square house built in 1997 and appraised for taxes
at about $600,000.
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