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**NEESIE**

An Oakville Museum employee arrived at work one morning earlier this month to find a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh sitting in the parking lot.

Halton police were baffled how the 500-pound statue got there and why someone would leave it. They had to call in Oakville's road and works department to move the statue and on Monday issued a news release requesting the public's help in identifying the owner of the statue.

"We have good information, given the size of it, it would be taken from a temple area as opposed to a home," said Sergeant Dave Cross to the National Post.

The three-foot tall statue of the elephantine god is missing two arms so police don't believe it was intended as a donation for the museum. As seen in the picture, the two top arms appear to be broken off. Museum director Nina de Vaal also told the Post the statue isn't the type of thing that would go in the museum, which usually carries artifacts from the early 1900s.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buz...42486.html

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 40036 04-19-2012 03:05 PM

probably hot or something

strange way to deliver

**NEESIE**

LoP Guest Wrote:

probably hot or something

strange way to deliver

According to a CBC article, the owner had paid someone to dispose of it. It had been shipped to him from India, but arrived in a damaged state and it is bad luck to display a damaged statue. The owner, who doesn't wish to be identified, had no idea it would end up in the museum parking lot.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91190 04-19-2012 03:18 PM

Thats the kind of God I dont mind. A statue that doesnt murder its creations, write a religious text bragging about those murders or demand proper worship or else he will send you to a eternity of pain and fire.

Heartflowers

why cant all Gods be as nice as that statue ?

**Zero Point**

Someone probably turned the arms into umbrella stands... Anon

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66931 04-19-2012 03:21 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Thats the kind of God I dont mind. A statue that doesnt murder its creations, write a religious text bragging about those murders or demand proper worship or else he will send you to a eternity of pain and fire.

why cant all Gods be as nice as that statue ?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91190 04-19-2012 03:22 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Thats the kind of God I dont mind. A statue that doesnt murder its creations, write a religious text bragging about those murders or demand proper worship or else he will send you to a eternity of pain and fire.

why cant all Gods be as nice as that statue ?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 80433 04-19-2012 03:36 PM

i like the elephant god... cool trunk and multiple arms, i would find a place for him... sure better than some gods, who demand blood sacrifice, slaughter women and children and animals, consign millions to an eternity of torture, ...etc etc etc creepy shit right there...

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 04-19-2012 03:52 PM

Atheists and agnostics are closer to God then those who create God in their preferred image.

**ana** · **ana** . User ID: 84929 04-19-2012 05:27 PM **Posts: 4,852**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Thats the kind of God I dont mind. A statue that doesnt murder its creations, write a religious text bragging about those murders or demand proper worship or else he will send you to a eternity of pain and fire.

why cant all Gods be as nice as that statue ?