Often when an evangelical parishioner comes to the altar to receive “the spirit of the Lord” and falls backward, church-supplied “catchers” ease them to the floor.

That didn’t happen when Judith Dadd received the spirit of the Lord and her lawsuit against Mount Hope Church recently went to trial near Lansing, Mich.,

She’s seeking compensation for head trauma and lacerations after no one was there to break her fall. There’s no word yet as to the outcome of her trial.

At least her case doesn’t seem as bad as that of a 1995 incident that occurred at a tent revival in Lafayette Parish, LA. Apparently the first overcome parishioner was caught as she should have been, but another parishioner was overcome much faster than anyone expected and she landed hard on the first woman and broke three of her ribs!