As Christians in the Holy Land are commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Good Friday prayers and processions through Jerusalem's Old City, tiny Tybee Island, on the East Coast of Georgia is also carrying out its own reenactment.
As thousands of Christian pilgrims filled the cobblestone alleyways of Jerusalem on Friday along the Via Dolorosa, Latin for the "Way of Suffering," fifty white robed and hooded men led a procession of their own in Tybee.
Carrying burning wooden crosses a tradition, says Tybee Mayor K Knob, was started 50 years ago, the men proceeded to find a volunteer who looked like Jesus whom they could crucify.
After finding Jesus lookalike Delroy Washington to volunteer as Christ; in the tradition of christianity, they lynched him to a tree before letting him go with his payment of a "good thrashing" and two cadbury's creme eggs.
