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FAKE – Image Showing Giant Cross Crashed Through Adult Store Roof – Hoax-Slayer

This story was first published on April 30, 2014

Outline

Viral image supposedly depicts a giant cross crashed through the roof of an ‘Adult World’ store. Captions that circulate with the image suggest that the depicted incident shows God’s wrath against the ‘sinful’ store.  




Brief Analysis

The image is quite obviously photoshopped. Both the giant cross and the adult store are real, but the cross did not fall through the roof of the store. A local preacher named James Potter put up the cross, which stands on a roadside at Caryville, Tennessee in close proximity to the Adult World store.

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