Church Altar Smites Devout Catholic

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Austrian crushed after popping in to thank God

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 10th September 2009 13:39 GMT

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A devout Catholic who popped into church to thank God for a his rescue from a lift was crushed to death by a 860lb stone altar, the Telegraph reports.

Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger explained that Gunther Link, 45, was "a very religious man and had been scared when he was trapped in the lift and had prayed for release".

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

Link was reported missing by his cousin, and found the next day by parishioners going to Mass at the Weinhaus Church in Vienna.

Hahslinger concluded: "He seems to have embraced a stone pillar on which the stone altar was perched and it fell on him, killing him instantly. We have found his fingerprints on the pillar. We are now investigating the case further." ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/10/devout_catholic/

[mrmcdonaldduck]

how unfortunate.

[nick]

Tragic but amusing. I seem to have survived church this morning, our altar is better behaved.

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Wow, talk about irony. What a way to go, too! At least he died instantly, I can't imagine being alive and possibly conscious long enough to realize I'd just been crushed to a pulp.

How odd that a stone altar weighing nearly half a ton would just fall from a simple embrace. You probably couldn't knock that off of the pillar if you tried, and I assume it wasn't just precariously balanced there... I won't call this "divine intervention" or whatever, but it's interesting.