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A WOULD-BE thief who attempted to steal a church donation box in Munich suffered divine retribution in the form of a falling statue of a saint that gashed his head, the German website The Local reported yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Local said the nearly life-size statue of Saint Antonius tumbled from its wooden base as the thief was trying to break open the donation box attached to the same structure.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe (the saint) obviously did not want to let it go,\u201d it quoted the church\u2019s priest, Ludwig Sperrer, as saying with a grin.<\/p>\n
But the thief didn\u2019t undergo a miraculous conversion despite the statue\u2019s apparent intervention.<\/p>\n
He went to a nearby house to ask for help for his bleeding head and while there, his female accomplice stole a wallet left lying on the counter.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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