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A six-story statue of Jesus Christ height with arms held high along a highway was struck by lightning in a storm Monday night and burned, police said. The "King of Kings" statue, one of the most familiar to southwestern Ohio, had stood since 2004 in the Evangelical Church Solid Rock along Interstate 75 in Monroe, north of Cincinnati. The lightning set fire to a statue of about 23:15, dispatchers Monroe police said. The sculpture, 62 feet high and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the torso up and was nicknamed Touchdown Jesus because of the manner in which arms were raised, like a referee signaling a touchdown. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that was left early Tuesday. The fire spread from the statue of an amphitheater next door, but was limited to the attic area, and nobody was injured, Police Chief Mark Neu said.  |
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