Man killed in church after stone altar falls on him

[FarCenter]

Gunther Link, a devout Catholic, prayed to be saved after he was trapped in a lift – but was killed when he went to church to give thanks and the stone altar fell on him.

Link, 45, died instantly as he was crushed under the ancient 860lb monument in the Weinhaus Church in Vienna, Austria.

Roman Hahslinger, a police spokesman, said: "He was a very religious man and had been scared when he was trapped in the lift and had prayed for release.

"A short while later he was pulled out of the elevator and he went straight to the church to thank God.

"He seems to have embraced a stone pillar on which the stone altar was perched and it fell on him, killing him instantly.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/6166852/Man-killed-in-church-after-stone-altar-falls-on-him.html

[mitchum]

1. This sardonic atheist must not laugh

must not laugh

[DesertFlower]

2. this atheist couldn't help herself.

i had to laugh.

[proteus_lives]

39. Go ahead and laugh.

A man is dead, that's fucking hilarious. :sarcasm:

[TxRider]

3. Aww go ahead and laugh...

How can you not..

I will refrain from a snide remark out of respect though...

[FarCenter]

10. The best of all possible worlds, according to Leibniz

"Since He is good and omnipotent, and since He chose this world out of all possibilities, this world must be good — in fact, this world is the best of all possible worlds."

[Sal Minella]

24. So was Dr. Pangloss a riff on Leibniz?

[Critters2]

29. Yes. That was covered in World Lit 101. nt

[Sal Minella]

32. Which, unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to take.

Not all DUers have such a fine formal education as some DUers, yanno.

[mitchum]

30. Yep, and it's a nice parody

that Voltaire...

[Sal Minella]

34. One of my favorites of all authors I've learned to love, yes.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing:
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

[MrScorpio]

4. Sounds very Omeny, on 9-9-9 even

Any kids named Damien hanging about?

[DesertFlower]

5. now i'm laughing more. nt

[Sultana]

37. lol

:spank:

[Old Hob]

6. That's why I don't go to church anymore, because of shit like that.

[L. Coyote]

17. Me too, afraid of the immediate trip to heaven, you know!!! LOL

:rofl: I need more time here, I still have not reached 50,000 posts :rofl:

[Journeyman]

7. And the Celestial Bookkeeper in the Sky looked down and said, "Oh, forgot to carry the 1". . .

[TxRider]

9. ROFL

I wasn't going to say it...

[SpiralHawk]

8. This serves as a cautionary reminder to us all...

...to be sure we retain a good lawyer to draft our prayers before we utter them, so that we will have subclauses for such contingencies.

[lunatica]

11. The Wrath of God

You gotta watch out for it.

[CreekDog]

12. I hope he went to heaven

anything else would be cruel.

[Pangolin2]

19. Everyone wants to go there, or so they say, but nobody wants to start the trip.

:D

[XanaDUer]

13. That's sad.

Poor man. :(

[LanternWaste]

14. My father was birthed in a cemetery...

My father was birthed in a cemetery in south Texas many (many) years ago (true story). We often joked he'd die in a church...

[TxRider]

21. Mine was birthed on a bar.... really.

[gatorboy]

15. Final Destination....5?

[Selatius]

18. It gets creepier. There was a survivor of the Air France disaster. She ended up dying, too.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=97751§ionid=3510212

An Italian woman who did not board the Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic, killing all its 228 passengers, has died in a car accident.

Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from the northern Italian province of Bolzano-Bozen, and her husband Kurt missed the June 1 Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris after arriving late at the airport.

Johanna and Kurt Ganthaler were vacationing in Brazil, when they missed the ill-fated Air France flight and were forced to catch a different flight later that day.

Just days later after returning to Europe, Johanna lost her life when their car went off the road near the Austrian city of Kufstein.

[Obamanaut]

16. Strange and wondrous are the ways of the Lord, his miracles to perform nt

[Xicano]

20. Was this the rapture?

.

[11 Bravo]

22. Damn, there are some fucking assholes that frequent this board!

[Sal Minella]

25. Took you long enough.

I figured this out yesterday already.

[Critters2]

27. Yep. Nothing funnnier than a man dying.

Quite the knee-slapper that! :banghead:

[emilyg]

33. Yes.

[greyl]

43. Your confusion is a bit overdone

I just fell right out of my face one day
and I took it as a sign from god

A Sign From God - The Cure

[librechik]

23. "Seriously, that's the last time I'll ever pray to God for a sign. "

Rilly.

RIP, poor Christian zealot.

[Critters2]

28. Offering a prayer of thanks makes him a zealot? nt

[LeftyMom]

36. Well yeah.

If anybody honestly thinks, in a world where untold millions are dying of horrible diseases or starvation at any given moment, children are being abused, wars continue to fell innocents and evil men walk free, that God took some time away from his vitally important work ignoring the pleas of starving children with swollen bellies and flies in their eyes to send this guy an elevator repair man, than that person is both a zealot and a world-class narcissist.

[proteus_lives]

41. How was this man a zealot?

Do you even know what that word means?

Please share your reasoning.

[RagAss]

26. He should have just gone home and had a fucking beer.

[MissDeeds]

31. Good God!

Or not.

[Vickers]

35. God works in mischievous ways.

O8)O8)O8)O8)O8)

[Sultana]

38. Jeez, unlucky guy :(

RIP

[kenny blankenship]

40. Psych!

[proteus_lives]

42. As expected.

Some of the comments on this thread reveal one of DU's uglier and nastier sides. :puke:


RIP to that poor man.

[Joe the Liberal]

44. Poor guy, kind of ironic though.....

him being very religious only to die in a church of all places.

[Lagomorph]

45. "Apology accepted, Gunther Link."