Man Dresses As Jesus, Declares 'Salvation Awareness Day'

[Kadie]

Man Dresses As Jesus, Declares 'Salvation Awareness Day'

POSTED: 5:28 pm EDT August 10, 2004

LEEDS, Ala. -- An Alabama hairstylist who dressed as Jesus, drenched himself in fake blood and mounted a 14-foot cross in front of his salon says, "You have to do things to shock people."

He succeeded. Within 30 minutes, police in Leeds were ordering him to come down.

Patrick Conaty mounted the cross Monday in front of his Running With Scissors salon -- wearing a dark wig, a crown of thorns and stain-spattered sheet -- to declare "Salvation Awareness Day."

When police told Conaty that he needed a demonstration permit, he responded that a city official had approved his Christian display -- including a sign in the salon window reading, "This is what Jesus did for you. What are you doing for Jesus?"

http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/3639401/detail.html

[rucky]

1. tomorrow is salavation awareness day

I'm going to dress like Paul Wolfowitz and spit on things.

[liberal72]

2. It was in the B'Ham news down here.

How embarassing.

[MichiganVote]

3. The best news of the wierd in a month. Way to go- still laughing!!!