# "Oh, Mary!" Underpass Virgin Vandalized

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 6, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-mary-underpass-virgin-vandalized/302710 "2005-05-06T16:14:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-mary-underpass-virgin-vandalized/302710/1 "2005-05-06T16:14:06Z")

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CHICAGO (AP) – A man was arrested for allegedly scrawling “Big Lie” over a stain on an expressway underpass that some believed was an image of the Virgin Mary. Authorities then painted over the stain because it had been defaced, police spokesman David Banks said Friday. Authorities charged Victor Gonzalez, 37, of Chicago with criminal damage to state supported property, a misdemeanor. Witnesses had seen him painting the image, Banks said.

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**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-mary-underpass-virgin-vandalized/302710/2 "2005-05-06T16:22:08Z")

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Y’know, I saw this on the news this morning, and thought ‘well, THAT was bound to happen’ until they cut to the footage of two women, jumping up and down and crying with such vigor, as if it had been their own children disemboweled in the street when the state workers finally painted over Our Blessed Lady of the Overpass ®.

These people are nuts with a capital uts.

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-mary-underpass-virgin-vandalized/302710/3 "2005-05-06T16:24:58Z")

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Well, if it really was the Virgin Mary then she could make the stain reappear right? Right?

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-mary-underpass-virgin-vandalized/302710/4 "2005-05-06T16:29:17Z")

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I think I speak advisedly when I say in response to the arrest:

Well, duh.