An Italian woman was killed by a crucifix.

"Suddenly, around 12, the heavy crucifix about one metre wide fell from the entrance of the church where it was placed"..."The accident is currently unexplained."
I'm going to go with gravity on this one.

Waitaminnit, jjs. Don't you know? Gravity is only a theory, not yet proven.

Obviously, the correct interpretation is that the ground accelerated this poor woman into a cross that had suddenly stopped accelerating.

Well, Einstein did say that acceleration and gravity are equivalent. Therefore, maybe, from the crucifix's frame of reference, it was the woman accelerating into it.

Then again, maybe it just fell onto her.

Well, ha ha ha, and ho ho ho. You're as funny as a funeral.

You mean like Chuckles the Clown's funeral on Mary Tyler Moore? Wow, thanks.

Okay, maybe I shouldn't be joking about this. But the whole thing is just so ironic, as I think was Rand's point to start with.

Obi-Wan, I was responding to Mr. Simberg. My apologies to you, I very certainly meant no unpleasantness. My understanding of the etiquette of these things is that a comment is initially concerned with the original blog post, and might subsequently turn into a conversation with other commenters. Next time I will be sure to specify whom I am addressing.

Mr. Simberg, the title of your post reeks. There is a place for black humor ("Laugh so you don't cry", goes my favorite old Irish saying), but why on Earth did that poor woman deserve to be mocked?

No prob, Mike. I made the "ass-umption" that you were addressing me for two reasons: your post immediately followed mine, and I was making a joke, however tasteless. The fault was not yours.

Now that you bring it up, though, the post title is a bit, uh, cryptic. But I tend to give the benefit of the doubt to people smarter than I am. Like Rand.

You know, if she had been wearing a bandolier of .50 cal, it might have saved her.

I would like to know if her insurance covers such 'acts of God' or if maybe the church will pay for the funeral.