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Subject: Re: Proof of existence of the damager god!
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> From the San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 1986, p. 16:
> 
> Rio de Janeiro (REUTERS) -- 
> 
>    A man lost an arm when he deliberately stuck it into a lion's cage 
> "to test the will of God," officials said yesterday.
> 
>    Carlos Alberto Oliveira Fontes, 47, was taken to a hospital after
> the lion ripped off his arm. The episode occurred at the zoo in
> Salvador, capital of the northeastern state of Bahia.
> 
>    Fontes' mother told police that she thought he was joking when he
> said he would "offer one of his arms to the lion to test the power of
> God. If God is so powerful, he will not allow the lion to hurt me."
> 
>    When he recovers, Fontes will be sent to a mental hospital, police said.
Thou shalt not temp the Lord thy God !!!!!!