IRONY ALERT Religious Man Crushed By Falling Crucifix
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.
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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.
His devotion to a torture device? Now that's upsetting..
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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.
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.
Dude got nailed
Comedic genius.
So now he's praying for a favourable court judgement, but not for his leg to grow back? Some strong conviction there... Tragic though.
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?
Idolatry
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.
"The Lord giveth & the Lord taketh away..." Every christian seems to forget this text when it suits them...
Attacked by Jesus! I love how he attributes god for healing but then blames the church and sues them - what a selective god.
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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.
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.
He can just pray and the leg will grow back. Right?
Maybe he should have prayed to science for curing his wife.
Yet another example of intelligent falling.
Hitchens would have laughed.
He´s not dumb, he´s god-smart.
I wonder if this guy still believes his devotion to this crucifix cured his wife's cancer?
The screw was useless. ... So was the crucifix...
Jesus says: Screw Off!
For a minute, I thought I was watching The Onion. Then I realized you can't make this up.
or rather it does move, if by move you mean tople and crush anything in it's path downward.
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.
And apparently petty and mean
I felt bad until I found out he did it to himself.
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.
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 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.
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.
And now hes suing the church? Ok!! Lol
Sue God :-)
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. :(
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!"
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!
The lord giveth, the lord dropeth a statue on you.
I think the designer had a 'screw loose'. He wasted all those nails on the Jesus part.
Your God has a very sick sense of humor. On the darkest of levels I like it.
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!
Sorry, praying, not paying, paying is what he's waiting for
something tells me prayer want bring back his leg
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
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.
How did he do it to himself? It fell on him.
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Pizza worker? He.
Wait. This is not the Onion?
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Its OK...God told him to sue
Can you still go to hell for laughing out loud?
"Where's your Messiah now, Flanders?
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.
This is from The Onion, right?
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45yr old pizza worker... looool
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.
scientists cure cancer, thank god
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
Ahhh ya beat me to it. Haha
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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.
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.."
I'm not sure yu can sue for an act of god.. lol
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.
lol
Didn't the bible teach them anything? You hang Jesus up with nails...
That's not irony, that's divine intervention. God's tired of this Christian Right shit.
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.
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