Jesus struck by lighting???? You don't here that every day.

[Billy K]

Ya think He was serious about that ...no graven images....part??

[caseydog]

Oh why couldn't it have been this one instead??

Maybe you need to pray harder.

CD

[Larwyn]

Another one.........
67 feet tall, on I45 in Huntsville, TX.

[Ratkity]

That pilgrim dude needs a lightning strike fer shure! LOL. At least Sam Houston is traditional style.

Hugs,
Ratkity

[Larwyn]

The biggest problem with the Sam Houston statue is having it in sight of an interstate highway. I used to drive by that thing regularly and I was always suspicious that people gawking at that statue caused many accidents that would not have occurred otherwise. Many days I'd travel a couple hundred miles or more on I45 and the only accident I saw was in sight of the Sam Houston statue. I would be willing to bet that at least one of them was caused by a driver drifting off the road while trying to take a picture with his cell phone with the cruise control locked in at 70 mph. I actually believe that it is a traffic hazard. My wife always called it the "Giant Stay Puff Marshmallow Man".......

No disrespect to Sam Houston himself.

[caseydog]

The biggest problem with the Sam Houston statue is having it in sight of an interstate highway. I used to drive by that thing regularly and I was always suspicious that people gawking at that statue caused many accidents that would not have occurred otherwise. Many days I'd travel a couple hundred miles or more on I45 and the only accident I saw was in sight of the Sam Houston statue. I would be willing to bet that at least one of them was caused by a driver drifting off the road while trying to take a picture with his cell phone with the cruise control locked in at 70 mph. I actually believe that it is a traffic hazard. My wife always called it the "Giant Stay Puff Marshmallow Man".......

No disrespect to Sam Houston himself.

I pass it a lot, too. It's funny, I was just thinking of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

The problem I have with it is that the builders seemed to think that bigger means better. I think a much smaller stone statue would have been a more fitting tribute to Sam Houston than a giant, hollow, fiberglass statue. And put it someplace dignified, like a city park or town square, not along an interstate.

CD

[Mightydog]

The problem I have with it is that the builders seemed to think that bigger means better.

Uhhhhhhh...CD.

This is a statue of a Texan in Texas. An important Texan in Texas. I doubt there was anyone in that meeting tossing around the word "dignified" when it came to celebrating Sam Houston. There was probably a discussion of how big they could make it and have it not get blown over in one of those spring winds.

[Kelleyaynn]

This is a statue of a Texan in Texas. An important Texan in Texas. I doubt there was anyone in that meeting tossing around the word "dignified" when it came to celebrating Sam Houston. There was probably a discussion of how big they could make it and have it not get blown over in one of those spring winds.

Yup. In Texas, size matters!!!