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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |
| Chicago Woman Killed By Falling Gargoyle | |
| 2014-09-06 | |
[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] A 34-year-old woman died Thursday afternoon after falling masonry hit her on the head outside a church in the South Loop neighborhood.
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... at 19th and Michigan, just after noon. Killed was Sarah Bean of Chicago, a mother of two, who was just a few blocks away from home when the incident occurred. Her fiance, Lance Johnson, tells CBS 2 the two were walking when a gust of wind could be felt. "I felt like something happened. I looked back and she was on the ground," he said. A spokeswoman for the city's Building Department says a chain reaction was to blame for the falling stone. A corner of one of the metal decorative pieces on the exterior of the building gave way, striking a gargoyle statue on the southeast corner of the steeple and causing a portion of it to fall. The church is more than 100 years old. "There have been no violations or critical issues," church pastor David Neff tells CBS 2's Mike Parker. "We're just saying prayers for the woman." The church failed inspections between 2007 and 2011, but an inspection in October 2013 found no violations. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 ZF, you are on fire today! |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-09-06 23:30 |
| #13 When it tickles the ol' mental nerve, I bite into a topic with verve. Then it's bugger the clerks! Why conserve? Shoot the works, Cuz I hate keeping rhymes in reserve. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 23:03 |
| #12 This incident apparently struck a poetic nerve. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-09-06 22:19 |
| #11 They're coming to take me away To the FEMA farm some lovely day. For diverse diversion, Poetic perversion, And crimes against rhymes, I must pay. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 22:04 |
| #10 Belying its outward monstrosity, The gargoyle felt no animosity. Its final velocity And fatal ferocity? The fall of Chi-town grandiosity. And one for the Anti-Bothering League, since I couldn't cram "religiosity" into the last. Who knows when wind, earthly gravity, And ancient religious depravity Will, combined, a gargoyle, Some extinct sculptor's toil, Cause to impact your cranial cavity? |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 21:47 |
| #9 Usually, we hear of some shooting. You people may think that it's cute To send rain and melt up my chute, But winters are brutal, And I've had a snootful -- Give my southbound booty a salute! |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 21:34 |
| #8 |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-09-06 17:54 |
| #7 #4 Making humour of someone tragically beaned should be beneath us. Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2014 11:21 Comments || Top|| What Re you some kinda free-will kook? This is gawd sending us his version of the banana peel. Well, at least I hope so. Wait, the last name. Yeah, thus is definitely Devine banana peel territory. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-09-06 17:50 |
| #6 FYI: A few years ago a sharp long icicle fell from the roof of the Marshall Fields Dept. store and landed/went thru the head of a pedestrian standing underneath on the sidewalk. She did not survive. Apologize for slightly OT. former Chicagoan Borgboy |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-09-06 14:52 |
| #5 If only the government would control the gargoyles then we wouldn't have death by gargoyle. LET'S MAKE CHICAGO A GARGOYLE FREE ZONE!!! [/sarc] |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonuymous5839 2014-09-06 13:37 |
| #4 Making humour of someone tragically beaned should be beneath us. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-06 11:21 |
| #3 Was the gargoyle a Predator drone gargoyle, or a free lancer? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-09-06 11:20 |
| #2 That's a different kind of story coming out of Chicago. Usually, we hear of some shooting. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-06 10:42 |
| #1 After falling down on the woman did John Kerry apologize? |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-09-06 07:39 |