Is Gawd mad at the Boy Scouts?

[proud2BlibKansan]

FRESNO, Calif. Another tragedy has struck the Boy Scouts, just days after four scout leaders were electrocuted while putting up a tent.
Now, a scoutmaster and a 13-year-old scout have been killed by lightning in California's Sequoia National Park. Six others have been injured.


They were all part of a group that had set up tarps to shelter them from a summer storm. A park ranger says a bolt of lightning hit one of the tarps directly.

Two of the injured were seriously hurt and survived only because the rest of the troop relied on their scout training to administer C-P-R non-stop for an hour.

In the incident in Virginia earlier in the week, the victims were killed as their tent's large center pole came into contact with power lines.

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[Parche]

1. scouts

I dont care what they say.....lightening does strike twice

[Lars39]

2. The feeling of being in a tent in the wilderness during a bad storm

is hellacious. Kudos to the scouts doing CPR for an hour.
That is not an easy thing to do.
:(

[displacedtexan]

3. Beware!

I posted this when MSNBC reported it, and I got flamed for my subject headline: Why does God hate Fresno?

I had to remember how to put someone on ignore.

Such a bother.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I just read that thread

My title is much worse.

Wanna start a support group? :hi: :)

[displacedtexan]

5. Absolutely!

I mean no harm.

I just hate freepers... and I'm sorry that no one ever cared enough about them to teach them the true meaning of "freedom" or anything about Christianity.

Gawd makes Jesus weep every time I type a headline, too.

[johnfunk]

11. Why does God hate Fresno?

1) Free Republic
2) Jim "Scam the rubes to tweak my RV" Robinson
3) The worst Domino's Pizza franchise in the known universe

[catmandu57]

6. They're dropping like flies

Also they had the incident earlier in the week when a bunch of them bit the dirt from the heat waiting for our most glorious fuhrer.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Maybe it's just bad Karma

but two tragedies in a week? That's just too creepy.

[Syncronaut Seven]

7. Wow! Fresno, Isn't that like freep central?

What are the odds?

[Tux]

9. Sheesh

If the Boy Scouts didn't hate America, Deity wouldn't punish them for their sins.

[Branjor]

10. The weather has been changing...

getting more violent in recent years due to global warming. Maybe this is just not a safe time of year to have a jamboree in anymore.

[Vinca]

12. So how come, when the Almighty does bad things, he/she

doesn't get credit? Just wondering. It's always "a miracle" when they survive being struck by lightening. Maybe the big guy's trying to tell them to be nicer to gays or something.

[TrogL]

13. My partner was hit by lightning and survived

[bribri16]

14. I was thinking the same thing. Isn't tht what Falwell and Robertson would

say?