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Monday, February 04, 2008

No pictures please

Jesus appears on phone pole

Large crowds gathered yesterday around a mobile phone mast in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu after locals spotted Jesus Christ atop the structure, Kampala's The Monitor reports.
Witness Eric Odongo, who claimed he "first saw clouds on top of the mast and that Jesus appeared to be standing amidst clouds", told the paper: "I saw Jesus standing on top of the mast. He was standing between two people and was putting on a white cloth. His hair was black."


But he didn't hang around for any photos this time

Reporters attending the scene sadly failed to confirm the sighting. Herbert Omoding, the local assistant engineer for telecoms outfit MTN, which operates the mast, admitted he'd "seen nothing unusual".



posted by davis14633 at 06:18

3 Comments:

Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

This story just reminded me of the scene from the 1967 film Bedazzled where Peter Cook (playing the Devil) is up a telephone pole with Dudley Moore (playing the Faustian victim Stanley Moon), and The Evil One is cross connecting circuits and making crank phone calls.

10:16  
Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

But Jesus was just standing there, Builder. He would never do anything so crass and amusing.

Something my early indoctrination made very clear to me is that there's no room for humor in Heaven. Saving souls is serious business, a principle firmly ingrained in the Christian psyche by many generations of drunken monks and grim-faced dogmatists. Kevin Smith's "Dogma" went over with mainstream Christianity like a pedophile in an orphanage -- thus proving that most of them had missed the point entirely.

If you doubt me, just go sit through a Fundamentalist church service one Sunday. Might want to take a caffeine pill first.

To quote another movie: "Hrmph. Nuns. No sense of humor."

(I'll just go climb into my Nomex suit now, shall I?)

11:21  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe he just got lost and was trying to phone home.

"Just trying to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to heaven all alone
Just trying to make his way home
Nobody calling on the phone
'cept for the Pope maybe in Rome"

14:30  

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