Dateline San Antonio:Tree Mystery Solved; Faithful Keep Coming

[Saphire]

so much for the "holy tree" in San Antonio...seems to have been de-bunked. If you didn't see the story, apparantly a tree sprouting water for no apparant reason was discovered in San Antonio, and the faithful started to flock to it for it's miraculous powers.

SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio Water System has apparently solved a tree mystery.

Crews on Wednesday conducted some tests at an East Side home where water has been gurgling out of a tree for the past four months.

After SAWS shut off the water meter, the flow of water stopped coming out of the tree, which has attracted many visitors.

Apparently, the trees roots have tapped into an underground water pipe.

"Undoubtedly, it's tapped into a water line somewhere down there," said Lloyd Pope, who owns the property. "Where? I don't know. How? I don't know. (But) that is the cause."

Despite the discovery, some people still believe the tree is flowing with holy water.

"I stayed praying to the tree before I got the water and I put it on my back," said Maria Martinez. "And on my neck and on my kneees. I was so excited. And when I put it on my back, I felt the pain relief."

KSAT 12 News had some of the tree water tested and the results indicated that the water had flouride and chlorine in it.


another one bites the dust...and another one bites the dust...and............

[MoseyWalker]

1. Oh boy

this is one to remember. Any link available so I can send it around?

:rofl:

[MoseyWalker]

5. link

http://www.ksat.com/news/9694476/detail.html

and

http://www.ksat.com/news/9698374/detail.html

[Sapere aude]

2. When pagans prayed to trees the xians wanted to kill them.

[Beelzebud]

3. Shit like this is why I'm firm in my atheism.

You'll never catch me bending over to drink muddy tree water from a sewage line, and proclaim the powers of jayzusss.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Cool, yes. Miraculous, not quite.

Once the ridicule dies down, all we're left with are a lot of desperate people.

Pretty goddamn sad, innit?

--p!

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Link to DU post re: Water Tree

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=5495106

[The Stranger]

7. This story is very instructive as to the state of affairs today.

Somehow reality has been lost in all of the confusion.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. LOL! Good thing it wasn't a sewer pipe the tree had tapped into!

:rofl:

[AspenRose]

9. Now if they could only solve the mystery of the haunted railroad tracks

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==1298

[Gruenemann]

13. No mystery at all, other than

the mystery of where this story came from. From the second entry in the site you linked us all to:

"There is no record of any bus being hit by a train here, the streets in the neighborhood are named after the developer's kids (who are alive and well), if you don't wash your car down thoroughly first you'll see your own prints in the powder (and those of any kid who has touched your car recently), and it can appear that you are rolling uphill when you are actually rolling downhill."

[Skittles]

10. now solve the mystery of why so many believe in such garbage

f***ing brainwashed idiots

[FormerDittoHead]

11. If you took a poll of the trekkers, how many would be Dems vs Pugs?

But that would be a waste of time, eh?

[jbnow]

12. No miracle but pretty cool that

the tree tapped into the line somehow so that it spouted from the tree.

NOT too good for the water bill if this was metered water but it would be interesting to know how it worked.

[Beausoleil]

14. This IS San Antonio

where every other week the faithful flock to see Jesus in a tortilla or Mary in a bathroom window. This is normal behavior for San Antonio and not an indication of increasing apparitions in general. We're just blessed here.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. I liked the salt stain in the concrete underpass on the Eisenhower Expy.

in Chicago that looked "like the Virgin Mary".



Frankly, what I saw in that stain looked awfully, well, vaginal. Figure that out, Dr. Freud.

[Wilber_Stool]

16. Why wasn't this the

first thing they thought of?