People flocking to Chicago's "Underpass Virgin Mary"

[underpants]

Mona Botrice and her son Matthew, 3, take a closer look at what some people believe to be an image of the Virgin Mary under a freeway underpass in Chicago, April 18, 2005. Police said the image might have been caused by stains from road salt that dripped from the Kennedy expressway onto the wall, but hundreds of believers have been coming to the underpass to view the image and pray at the spot. REUTERS/John Gress



Faithful Flock To Virgin Mary Image Under Kennedy
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_108081527.html

[Sannum]

1. holy crap

:eyes:

[auburngrad82]

62. Looks like a pee stain to me.

Damn those homeless people!!!

[JVS]

71. Police are on the lookout for a 12 foot tall homeless male

[sui generis]

2. guess there was a grilled cheese sandwich shortage

or something.

[pnorman]

30. Virgin Mary' toast fetches $28,000

A decade-old toasted cheese sandwich said to bear an image of the Virgin Mary has sold on the eBay auction website for $28,000.

An internet casino confirmed it had purchased the sandwich, saying it had become a "part of pop culture".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4034787.stm

pnorman

[MrScorpio]

3. Maybe I'm not doing enough drugs

(Actually, I'm not doing any)

But, I don't see any Madonna

[RebelOne]

4. Unbelieveable that some people

can be so dumb.

[qanda]

5. I wouldn't let my child put his hands on that wall

You never know who's been pissing on it. :puke:

[underpants]

13. See post below--- No I wouldn't either

let alone put his mouth on it :puke::eyes:

[billyskank]

6. It's probably a urine stain.

[rocktivity]

15. DING DING DING! Billyskank, you're our grand prize winner!

This IS a highway underpass, after all. Who is more likely to have discovered the image--a passing motorist, or a pissing homeless person?

:headbang:
rockantion

[Arkana]

7. Oh, dear...will this idiocy ever end????

"In other news, a pair of boxers with skidmarks resembling Jesus were sold today for $100,000,000."

[MadHound]

8. Geez, first a cheese sandwich, now this.

Some people are just delusional, or have a huge void in their life to fill.

[AngryAmish]

9. I'm a few blocks away from that right now

I drove past there on my way to lunch (prosciutto and mozzarella sammich - very, very good). There were 2 cop cars there. About seven civilians and a TV truck.

I might go over there after a while and get a picture.

[rocktivity]

11. Oh, please do get a pic, AngryAmish

We need an official DU pic to photoshop and otherwise ridicule!

:headbang:
rocknation

[izzie]

10. Please just give me a brake.

--

[RevolutionaryActs]

12. I must go and have my picture taken with that water stain!

I must. :o

[MuseRider]

14. Hmmmm

looks like it could be a LOT of things, some not mentionable. How strange people are.

[bleedingheart]

16. I think it looks like a Georgia O'Keefe rendering of female anatomy

but that's me...

[Tom Kitten]

17. maybe I have a dirty mind but

It looks like a very large vagina to me.

[underpants]

18. See bleedingheart's post above

That makes three of us :evilgrin:

[XNASA]

20. I'm gonna agree with you there...

I think it's the Blessed Vagina.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. That would be a very large VULVA....

not vagina. Technically speaking. :D

And I agree completely. Very O'Keefe.

And that kid in the first shot is clearly trying to climb back in to get away from the horror of Bush World.

[matcom]

19. that last guy is touching her VAGINA!!!!!!

oooooooooooooooooooooo well HE is going to Hell!!

[bleedingheart]

24. I think a dose of Monistat might help as well since it looks a bit

off...


:evilgrin:

[Radical Activist]

21. Do these people realize they look like lunatics?

Completely freaking nuts. People say catholicism isn't a cult because its so large, but seeing something like this makes me wonder.

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. That's not the Virgin Mary, that's Elvis.

And those hands aren't praying, they're holding a microphone.

Or maybe it's Ian Curtis.

[underpants]

26. FINALLY Ian gets his due

:bounce:

[JAbuchan08]

25. I think its time to break out my pieces of "true cross" only $999.99

but seriously I hope they wash their hands.

[Blue-Jay]

27. I'm glad i don't have to drive on the Kennedy today.

Thank Bob for the train.

[Spider Jerusalem]

31. You forgot the Sacred Quote Marks, pink-boy...

:)

[rene moon]

28. I kind of see her

Especially in the second picture. Who knows, it maybe her.

Don't make fun of people and their faith--it's rude. I know that's hard on DU but whatever.

[matcom]

29. right.

i'm about to go make a cheese sandwich. wanna buy it? only $20k

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[rene moon]

37. No thanks

No need to laugh. I happen to take great comfort in the Virgin--she's helped me get through hard times.

I didn't see her in the grilled cheese---that was dumb. But otherwise, things aren't always black and white.

[RebelOne]

53. I am an atheist, but I do not make fun of other people's faith.

But I do make fun of stupidity.

[Book Lover]

60. Don't you think she would be a little clearer about it?

Doesn't it make more sense that it is in fact the waterstain that it looks like, rather than something that it does not resemble at all? I think the Blessed Mother would make it a little clearer for folks, were she to truly appear.

[DS1]

32. Wow, was Jesus fully grown when born, or was God hung like a whale?

btw



nice camera, dickhead

[matcom]

33. either way

dat shit be worn OUT!!!

[DS1]

34. Then only stopped in a barn on xmas eve because the 'husband'

was horny and looking for a bucket to fill with warm water.

/off to hell
//express

[matcom]

39. come on down!

the water's warm! :D

[RedCloud]

48. Hung like a plankton!

remember she was still a virgin after giving birth!

[DS1]

49. Don't contradict God!

Or call him a little winky dink, ~I~ happen to love the guy

:grr:

[matcom]

52. that's Tinky Winky

"Jerry" :eyes:

[terrya]

35. Of course, there are no paintings or representations of the Virgin Mary.

Absolutely none whatsoever. No one has the slightest clue as to her appearance.

I don't want to ask "what is wrong with these people". It's a bit strange, though.

[arwalden]

36. Oh Good Grief! What Idiots!

[Rambis]

38. Jesus Mary and Joseph!

WTF? People it is salt! Oi! I should have saved the Lays potato chip we pulled out of the bag on the harmonic convergence and the 10 anniversary of Elvis's death. Burned into the chip was a perfect crucifix. We kept it on the wall for 7 years and I could have sold it to one of these morons on Ebay for millions!

[cassandra uprising]

40. mary is my home girl and all

i'm catholic and i'm down for random mary citings and all, but good grief people.

just another bunch of wing-nuts making the rest of catholics look like a bunch of crazies. as if we needed more of that.

:banghead:

[Taverner]

41. Um...it looks like water damage to me

I don't really see a Mary but hey, I never saw what was in those 3D pics back in the 90's either

[underpants]

42. How about from this angle? (another pic)

[matcom]

43. HEY LADY!!

stop playing with Mary's nipple!

[DS1]

44. Beatrix McFadden, after years of unsatisfying sex, points to the clitoris

while her previously clueless husband takes a picture.

[matcom]

45. you fucker

i now need a mop. for my DESK!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Burma Jones]

50. Magnificent

[Book Lover]

61. Hey, I paid good money for that cup of coffee!

Now it's all over my keyboard!

[luvLLB]

46. Thats better than the screen door Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!

[RedCloud]

47. Virgin Mary or some tall guy took a whiz?

Hard to tell.

[arwalden]

51. From The Front It Looks A Little Like "COUSIN IT"

[elehhhhna]

54. Looks like a vagina.

[Orsino]

69. I was just thinking the opposite.

Looks pretty doggone phallic to me.

But that's the beauty of faith. Each of us sees what he wants to see, I guess.

[miss_kitty]

55. very labial

It's a Miracle! The vision of 3/4s of a vagina has appeared on an underpass wall. ALL HAIL THE MYSTERY OF THE CONCRETE VAGINA!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

56. I was thinking the same thing

[graywarrior]

57. Will we ever get out of the Twilight Zone?

[giant_robot]

58. Art imitates life

Rev Lovejoy: <crossly> Ned, there's an oil stain in the parking lot that looks just like St. Barnabas.

Ned Flanders: <aghast> Oh, my stars!

[Done]

59. What more proof do you skeptics need?

:silly:
:woohoo:

[AngryAmish]

63. ON THE SCENE UPDATE

I just got back from the Fullerton overpass. There were about 50 people there, about ten cops (CPD and State Police) and two news trucks. A small shrine has gone up, and someone taped a picture of a baby next the Mary's head. I got some pics with my phone, but I do not know how to get pictures from my phone to this here website.

It smelled real nice over there, but it was probably all the candles burning.

[Susang]

66. If it smelled nice under there

It has to be the first time in history. :D

[Cush]

64. ewww, don't kiss it

how many pee stains are on that wall?

[Susang]

65. Great, as if traffic on Western Ave wasn't bad enough already

That's where everyone tries to kill each other to make the turn off of Western to get to Target. I can only imagine how long I'm going to have to sit on the bus in traffic tonight while idiots in their cars gawk at a giant hard water stain. :eyes:

[Bat Boy]

67. Laugh all you want...

But I worship water damage.

Stop oppressing me.

[mopinko]

68. we have mary in a tree here in rogers park

there was quite a little shrine after her appearance 3 years ago. they got to block the sidewalk for 2 years, but they have finally scaled it back since last fall. right across the street from pottowatomie park.

[sakabatou]

70. All it looks like is some lime stain in the shape of a tower arch

Nothing more.

[Deja Q]

72. I'm sorry, passers by. That is not Mary, that is a glory hole. And the

mother of all glory holes too. :wow:

[Ellen Forradalom]

73. Our Lady of Shitty Drivers

The Road Rage Virgin.