A priest is in his church, placing prayer books among the pews when a man with no arms walks inside.
The priest say, "Can I help you my son?"
The man says, "Father, it's been my life long dream to ring the steeple bell. I was wondering if you would allow me the honor."
The priest says, "Well, I don't mean to be indelicate, but you have no arms. How on God's Earth would you pull the rope?"
"Well I think I have that figured out", the man said, "if you would allow me to demonstrate."
"Very well." The priest said and he lead the man up the staircase to the steeple where the bell is. Without a word the man bends over at the waist and runs face first into the bell. It lurches forward with a loud BONG, but on the way back it hits the man and knocks him off the steeple and he falls all the way to the ground.
The priest in a panic runs down the stairs and out the church doors, where a small crowd was gathered. The priest looked at the man and he was clearly dead,
Just then a fellow from the town looks at the priest and says, "Father, did you know this man?"
The priest says, "I don't but his face rings a bell."
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