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Originally Posted by newyorker88

Goddess told him that to shift the statue, she has no objection, but cannot chop to shift. Must do it in 1 piece. The minister still refuse to believe as doing so will incur a lot of cost for machinery. So the incidents continued when they wanted to chop.

In the end, no choice, shift as a piece.

Interesting....reminds me of the ancient god ficus tree at Toa Payoh.

"Retiree Foo Ah Cheng, 78, remembered seeing bulldozers try in vain to fell the ficus as the new town was being built.

He said monks even offered prayers calling for the tree to give way.

''They wanted to get rid of it, but it wouldn't go,'' he said in Mandarin.

Residents believe the Government wanted to build a long row of shophouses, but split the development in two to accommodate the ficus.

From its precarious past grew longevity. Over the past decades, a steady stream of devotees have offered prayers for goodwill each time they passed the shrine. Some believe it was responsible for 4-D lottery windfalls."