# Another church related bad karma scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006 "2026-10-20T17:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/1 "2026-10-20T17:14:56Z")
Not quite like the priest killed by the falling crucifix but I think it would get lost in that Pit thread. I was sitting at a traffic light across the corner from a church with a prominent cross on top. As I watched, a huge buzzard (vulture) landed on the crossbar and spread his wings in defiance. What a picture! Alas, I didn’t have time to get my phone out before the light changed. I might have gotten a Pulitzer. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/2 "2026-10-20T17:32:09Z")
Vultures are big on imitation. [![](https://i.ibb.co/6cnG2CWV/look-im-adrian-howdy-howdy-howdy-v0-hurtwjvb703c1.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/6cnG2CWV/look-im-adrian-howdy-howdy-howdy-v0-hurtwjvb703c1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/3 "2026-10-20T17:34:22Z")
Discourse offered this as a related post: > [@Three Crosses, Three Vultures](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-crosses-three-vultures/312134): > > I saw an odd thing this afternoon. There’s a small baptist church a few miles from my house with a large sanctuary added on. In lieu of a steeple they have a doorframe shaped tower with three crosses on top to represent the crosses of Calvary. There was a vulture atop of each cross as I drove past. All three faced the same direction (more or less East). I found this pretty creepy in spite of the fact that I’m an atheist who tends to suppress his superstitious upwellings. After the initial … ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/4 "2026-10-20T18:32:39Z")
It looks like your ImgBB link is either secured or they’re fighting hotlinking. I see a big blue box w white words saying > ` imgbb.com` > > upgrade to a Pro > Accout to embed > Images in emails. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/5 "2026-10-20T18:35:18Z")
Me too. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/6 "2026-10-20T18:51:10Z")
“Garth…that was a haiku!” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/7 "2026-10-20T18:53:39Z")
Sigh. I switched to Imgbb because places ban Imgur. [![](https://i.imgur.com/k3BrG7z.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/k3BrG7z.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/8 "2026-10-20T18:57:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > because places ban Imgur. The United Kingdom, specifically, which does impact quite a few of our quality regulars. But at least it’s completely fair and unbiased when ImgBB shits the bed for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/9 "2026-10-20T20:18:07Z")
My understanding is that ImgBB can be hotlinked successfully. There’s just quite a rigmarole to do it. And the “smarter” and “easier” your phone (I’m lookin’ at you iPhone) the harder it is to persuade the phone to cough up the actual URL. See here for more. > [@ImgBB on an iPhone, steps to display images for the SDMB](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/imgbb-on-an-iphone-steps-to-display-images-for-the-sdmb/1024594): > > In @Mean_Mr.Mustard’s monthly photography threads (here for Nov 2025 ➜ [\*\*Monthly Photo Competition #36– November, 2025 – “A Whole Lot of \_\_\_\_\_”\*\* [Poll added]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-36-november-2025-a-whole-lot-of/1024478) ■ ) we recently discovered that images hosted on imgur are not viewable by Dopers in the UK, due to reasons. In the related thread for Rolling Discussions we determined that ImgBB works (here ➜ [SDMB Monthly Photo Competition - rolling discussion thread - #1723 by Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/1723) bullitt ■ ) and we defined steps for a PC. See the Nov 2025 … Where there’s a will there’s a way. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/10 "2026-10-20T21:21:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > My understanding is that ImgBB can be hotlinked successfully. There’s just quite a rigmarole to do it. I’ve done it many, many times, and simply. Every image I’ve posted for some number of months is Imgbb. I don’t know what reason that one failed. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-church-related-bad-karma-scene/1034006/11 "2026-10-20T21:22:55Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > The United Kingdom, specifically, which does impact quite a few of our quality regulars. Yes. And me.