# Nun with a Chainsaw! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231 "2017-09-13T11:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/1 "2017-09-13T11:26:10Z")
The title sounds like a Grindhouse movie, suggesting an image like this: [https://www.google.com/search?q=chain+saw+nuns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF9tHhhaLWAhWHMyYKHceNA8wQ\_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=680#imgrc=IiG4rthFONt7EM:&spf=1505301687842](https://www.google.com/search?q=chain+saw+nuns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF9tHhhaLWAhWHMyYKHceNA8wQ_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=680#imgrc=IiG4rthFONt7EM:&spf=1505301687842) [https://www.google.com/search?q=chain+saw+nuns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF9tHhhaLWAhWHMyYKHceNA8wQ\_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=680#imgrc=x3gJK1TzB1Sc9M:&spf=1505301687842](https://www.google.com/search?q=chain+saw+nuns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF9tHhhaLWAhWHMyYKHceNA8wQ_AUICigB&biw=1440&bih=680#imgrc=x3gJK1TzB1Sc9M:&spf=1505301687842) But it’s really a story about a take-charge nun clearing debris from Irma: > **[Nun With A Chainsaw Clears Hurricane Irma Debris Like A Pro](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nun-chainsaw-hurricane-irma_n_59b8c698e4b02da0e13d5cea?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009)** > > “There was a need. I had the means. So I wanted to help out,” > [@](#): > > A nun in West Kendall, Florida saw a car nearly go off the road while trying to avoid a tree that had fallen due to Hurricane Irma. So she found a chainsaw and got to work. > On Tuesday, an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer spotted Sister Margaret Ann of Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School clearing debris from the road. The officer took a photo and a video of the nun in action. If she’d had her yardstick, she woulda cracked Irma across the knuckles. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/2 "2017-09-13T13:48:29Z")
Or made it kneel on an architect’s scale. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/3 "2017-09-13T15:46:03Z")
While that’s all kinds of awesome, I do have to wince at the safety implications of using a chainsaw while wearing a habit. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/4 "2017-09-13T17:16:32Z")
Divine Intervention. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/5 "2017-09-13T18:42:48Z")
Let this be a lesson, kids. It starts as just sawing occasionally, then moves to chain sawing. It’s _habit_ that _nun_ should pick up. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/6 "2017-09-13T19:20:00Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Let this be a lesson, kids. It starts as just sawing occasionally, then moves to chain sawing. It’s _habit_ that _nun_ should pick up. Your name is going on a list, in case I ever become Emperor. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/8 "2017-09-13T19:32:42Z")
> [@Lokislady23](#): > > Flying Nuns with Chainsaws would make for a great movie. Now I’m fixated on Sally Field. Thanks a lot! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/9 "2017-09-13T19:47:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > If she’d had her yardstick, she woulda cracked Irma across the knuckles. I was taught by the nuns in grammar school. When I saw that video posted on Facebook, “The nuns were scary enough when they just had yardsticks. The thought of one with a chainsaw gives me nightmares.”😃 ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/10 "2017-09-13T19:55:33Z")
Renegade nuns! On wheels! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/11 "2017-09-15T17:46:32Z")
What’s black and white and red all over? A nun with a chainsaw! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nun-with-a-chainsaw/796231/12 "2017-09-15T17:56:54Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > What’s black and white and red all over? > > A nun with a chainsaw! Shame!