Texas Beer Joint Sues Church Goofy Stuff / Back Home
Thanks to Sammie for sending this one!
In Mt. Vernon, Texas, Drummond's Bar began construction on expansion of their
building to increase their business.
In response, the local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from
expanding with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up until the week
before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the
ground.
After the bar burning to the ground by a lightning strike the church folks
were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about “the power of prayer”, until
the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church "was ultimately
responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect
actions or means".
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or
any connection to the building's demise.
The judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and the defendant's reply
and at the opening hearing he commented, "I don't know how I'm going to decide
this, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a bar owner who believes
in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."
True Story.