[lit-ideas] Re: God is guilty of bad sportsmanship
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:47:05 EDT
In a message dated 9/16/2004 11:44:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Let this be a lesson to all you Sports types. God does not approve.
GRAPELAND, Texas (AP) -- A high school football player injured when
lightning struck the team as it finished practice has died of severe burns,
authorities said.
Russell Pennington, an 18-year-old senior at Grapeland High School, died
Wednesday in a hospital. He was among about 40 players and coaches with the
team in east Texas who were hospitalized after the lightning bolt struck
Tuesday afternoon.
This is odd, and perhaps a generalisation. Perhaps God was just trying to
punish Russell Pennington. Interestingly, another online source [below] notes
that he had been previously shot in the shoulder 'resulting in permanent
paralysis in his lower extremities' -- perhaps that was God's first signal, and
yete there he was playing football again during a storm.
May he r. i. p.
JL
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_http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ok&;
vol=/appeals/1957/&invol=1957okcr98_
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ok&vol=/appeals/1957/&invol=1957okcr98)
Plaintiff in error, James L. Crosswhite, defendant below, was charged by
information in the District Court of McCurtain County, Oklahoma, with the crime
of assault with a dangerous weapon by means of a .38 cal. Smith & Wesson
pistol, with intent to kill, 21 O.S.Supp. 1955 § 652 [21-652], by shooting
Russell Pennington in the shoulder resulting in permanent paralysis in his
lower
extremities. He was tried by a jury, convicted, and his punishment fixed at
fifteen years confinement in the state penitentiary.
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