IRONY ALERT Religious Man Crushed By Falling Crucifix
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2012
- NEWBURGH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- David Jimenez believed his devotion to a crucifix was responsible for his wife being cured of cancer. Well, the crucifix fell on him, crushing one of his legs.
And as CBS 2's John Slattery reported Friday, the leg had to be amputated.
Jimenez sees tragic irony in losing his leg to a crucifix he had prayed to. The crucifix had been outside the Church of St. Patrick in Newburgh. For months, the 45-year-old pizza worker would stop and pray at the crucifix, that his wife would be cured of ovarian cancer.
And she was.
"David attributed the cure to his devotion to that cross," Jimenez attorney Kevin Kitson said.
Because of that, Jimenez said, he got permission to clean the crucifix, which was long-neglected. But in doing so, the statue dislodged and toppled onto him.
"Throwing him down to the parking lot, crushing his right leg," Kitson said.
The attorney for Jimenez, who would not allow his client to speak, said the 600-pound statue was supported by a single screw in the base.
"The screw was useless. The screw is useless. It supported no anchoring system," Kitson said.
The church's pastor told CBS 2's Slattery by phone that parishioners collected food and some $7,000 for the Jimenez family, but Kitson said the insurance company for the archdiocese has been less than forthcoming. So, the injured man is suing.
Jimenez, who believes in the power of prayer, is now praying for a judgment, not from a higher authority, but from a civil court.
Jury selection in the case is scheduled to begin next Wednesday.
The fact that he is suing the church is the icing on this cake
If he hadn't been so enthralled by this ridiculous belief, he'd still have his leg.
I can't help it. The irony level is too high. This is one of the most hilarious news segments I have ever seen. Poor guy, in so many ways.
His devotion to a torture device? Now that's upsetting..
HEAR!HEAR! Hope you're still around to hear my thunderous ovation!😂😂
When something good happens, you thank god. When something bad happens, you sue. Makes sense...
A similar thing happened at my parish.. a Priest fell on an altar boy.. for forty minutes.
2000 years ago the punishment for destroying a sacred religious relic was crucifixion.
Well he could find out for himself how utterly useless prayer is. If he prays every moment for the rest of his life that leg will never, ever be restored. And I think he knows it, as does his lawyer.
Dude got nailed
So now he's praying for a favourable court judgement, but not for his leg to grow back? Some strong conviction there... Tragic though.
Comedic genius.
He deserves it for not praising the doctors who cured her cancer. Mostly he deserves the accident because he did not secure the cross before working on it. It's called "working in unsafe working conditions."
Why doesn't he pray for his leg to grow back?
After watching this all I can think of typing is.... AAHHAHAHAHA AHAHAHHAHAHA AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA OH MY GOD I love life even more after knowing this happened. It's hilarious on about 5 different levels.
"The Lord giveth & the Lord taketh away..."
Every christian seems to forget this text when it suits them...
For a minute, I thought I was watching The Onion. Then I realized you can't make this up.
And now hes suing the church? Ok!! Lol
No problemo, he can just pray his leg back.
Damn that sucks. It would be heartless to say it serves him right because desperate people will do what desperate people do. Might give him pause for thought though.
Maybe he should have prayed to science for curing his wife.
He can just pray and the leg will grow back. Right?
Good point. It's a perfect example of the cherry-picking most religious people do with both their holy texts and events in their lives.
Yet another example of intelligent falling.
Attacked by Jesus! I love how he attributes god for healing but then blames the church and sues them - what a selective god.
I wonder if this guy still believes his devotion to this crucifix cured his wife's cancer?
No, I mock someone who thought praying cured his wife's cancer, rather than medicine. The fact that he wound up in a real-life slapstick scene.from a black comedy is just a bonus.
Jesus says: Screw Off!
Your God has a very sick sense of humor. On the darkest of levels I like it.
Idolatry
He´s not dumb, he´s god-smart.
The screw was useless.
... So was the crucifix...
So he could pray to his imaginary friend due to his belief in his all powerfulness, as opposed to piss him off? Dude's crazy? O-o
I felt bad until I found out he did it to himself.
Hitchens would have laughed.
I don't understand the lawsuit. He believes the crucifix cured his cancer stricken wife and then crushed his leg so he's suing? According to his logic he should be thankful. It evidently took less than than it gave.
45yr old pizza worker... looool
The lord giveth, the lord dropeth a statue on you.
Was anyone else paying attention to the lines at the bottom?
Hurricane Sandy is a much more important story than this pitiful man. I have relatives on the East Coast. :(
I guess god figured his prayers were not enough for curing his wife's cancer, he wanted an arm and a leg too. You owe god an arm buddy, which incidently is the same price the hospital will charge.
Well thats the best proof of god i have ever seen. And god said "Go back to the hospital again, and this time dont foreget to thank the doctors!"
or rather it does move, if by move you mean tople and crush anything in it's path downward.
NEWBURGH!!
We all know what happened here.
David had been stalking Jesus for months when Jesus finally gave in and treated his wife, hoping he would leave him alone. But David came back, and went even further. He cornered Jesus and started sexually harassing him. Jesus tried to defend himself and, in the struggle, fell on top of him and broke his leg.
I think the designer had a 'screw loose'. He wasted all those nails on the Jesus part.
I can't understand this man at all... This person(?) believed so heavily in a higher power, yet is sueing? Like is he angry? if so at whom? What is he thinking? Does he not fear the power he had recently begged toward? Is he insane? I just can't... understand... T-T
And apparently petty and mean
How did he do it to himself? It fell on him.
Wait. This is not the Onion?
Can you still go to hell for laughing out loud?
O Cross worshippers!
Why is the cross exalted? And why blame those who reject it? Isn't it logical to break and burn it? Along with the ones who initiated it?
Since the Lord was crucified on it, and his hands nailed to it?
That is really a cursed cross to carry! So throw it away, don't kiss it!
The Lord was abused on it, yet you adore it? So you must be his enemies?
If you extol it because it carried the Lord of the Worlds, why don’t you prostrate yourselves and worship graves, since the grave contained your God in it?
O Christ worshipper!
Sorry, praying, not paying, paying is what he's waiting for
Well if he read the word of God he would have been warned! To paraphrase the second commandment, God said: Thou shalt not make unto thee ANY graven image of anything in heaven above (Is Jesus in heaven) or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt NOT bow down to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God... The Catholic church got rid of this commandment (even though it's in their own bibles) and then made two commandments out of the 10th commandment about coveting.
Two more great stories. One was a soldier that landed on Omaha beach during world war 2. He immediately took out his rosary beads, knelt down and started praying and was cut in half by a German machine gun. The second was an atheist in a foxhole. He said that the other guy was "Hailing Mary" all night long until he couldn't take it anymore. he then left the foxhole for a while against orders. As soon as he did, a German mortar shell hit the foxhole blowing the idol worshiper to bits. God saved the atheist and killed the idol worshiper!
Pizza worker? He.
"Where's your Messiah now, Flanders?
something tells me prayer want bring back his leg
scientists cure cancer, thank god
SHIIIIIZAAAAA
This is from The Onion, right?
lol
Ahhh ya beat me to it. Haha
@gordon bradley u have my endorsement 4 President...
I'm not sure yu can sue for an act of god.. lol
Its OK...God told him to sue
wheres jesus now?! WHERE THE FUCK WAS HE? I would have repeatedly been asking this one and only question to this mans face. This reporter has not done his job.
Sue God :-)
Poor guy but this is funny. One of life's little ironies. It (a statue that weighed 600 pounds) was upheld by 'one' (useless) screw. I'm surprised it didn't fall earlier. I guess if there was a God and I were to rationalize this, one could say that God demanded payment.
*****
I wish I could testify, dressed as god..
"He said he'd give anything to save his wife. Besides, remission chemo costs an arm and a leg, I only charged him 50%! ... I WAS going to take his life, but Jesus "jewed" me down... Oy what a discount."
Or the simple "I did not take his leg, I spared his other leg. You guys know I work in mysterious ways, like when I made engineers and architects.."
No Im guessing the video is just pointing out how believers will pick and choose what they attribute to god. God cured the cancer, but was not responsible for the screw breaking? cherry picking at its finest
SCIIIIIIIIIIISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa
Didn't the bible teach them anything? You hang Jesus up with nails...
You seem to not understand why people sue. He has hospital bills and probably lost the ability to adequately do his job. All because of negligence in constructing the statue.
Now, I happen to think that there are times when compassion is more appropriate than irony. Are people atheists or agnostics because they have no fellow-feeling, or possibly because we have more? Take care, people.
What evidence do you have that he is an idiot? Just because he's a Catholic doesn't make him an idiot. I don't believe in the Catholic church either, but just because somebody does, it doesn't make them an idiot.
That's not irony, that's divine intervention. God's tired of this Christian Right shit.
It really is quite disturbing to see the lack of empathy expressed here... its a poor man who's wife has cancer and now had to have his leg amputated, he doesnt deserve pain just because he's religious.. I am an atheist and I'm against religion that does not mean I am against religious people and you laughing at his misery makes me sick... usually a big fan of irony but irony would be if Pat Robertson and Bill Donahue were crushed by a crucifix while taking cocaine and having gay sex... not this