Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning

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I really don't know under which category i should post this news; so i am posting it here so that lots of people can have a look at it. Please have look at this amazing picture; wow

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For bigger picture please click on the image posted in the news article.

[edit on 12-2-2008 by Enceladus]

I would have liked to see that first hand. Who photographed it? Or maybe it was a security camera.

Very cool picture.

Being such a high point you would think this kind of thing happens pretty frequently though, wouldn't you ?

reply to post by anxietydisorder

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I don't know how much concrete attracts lightning, or if "reinforced" means there is steal in it, but you wouldn't want to be hanging around that 2,296ft pillar of Jesus in a thunder storm. How ironic.

[edit on 12/2/2008 by Nyorai]

Photoshop.

It's obvious that it's photoshop, looks fake.

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Reinforced concrete indeed does have steel in it and you would be amazed how shallow that steel is to the surface of the structure.

In order to make a statue like this one they probably had to create a silhouette of Jesus. and then pour and shape the concrete around the steel.

So it is quite probable that this statue gets hit hard by lightning often as it is a high point and probably quite conductive.

Why would a security camera be train on Jesus? In case someone steals it?