u/EvenLettuce6638

I remember watching a short film on cable in the early 1980s about God taking a vacation and giving his power to a human to watch things while he was gone.

God is in heaven, he points his finger at the Earth to give his power to a priest standing at a crosswalk. The priest moves though and the power of God is given to an old man, who may have been homeless.

He is transformed into a young man who fights evil and falls in love with a young woman. At the end he is going to go after the woman but God takes the power back and the hero falls down and turns into an old man again.

God then takes pity on the old man, the old man is covered in ribbons and then emerges as a young man who roller skates away.

Probably made in the 1970s, I remember watching this circa 1983 on HBO or Nickelodeon. Probably HBO.

Any ideas?

I remember watching a short film on cable in the early 1980s about God taking a vacation and giving his power to a human to watch things while he was gone.

God is in heaven, he points his finger at the Earth to give his power to a priest standing at a crosswalk. The priest moves though and the power of God is given to an old man, who may have been homeless.

He is transformed into a young man who fights evil and falls in love with a young woman. At the end he is going to go after the woman but God takes the power back and the hero falls down and turns into an old man again.

God then takes pity on the old man, the old man is covered in ribbons and then emerges as a young man who roller skates away.

Probably made in the 1970s, I remember watching this circa 1983 on HBO or Nickelodeon. Probably HBO.

Any ideas?

"Pfc. Krystofer Lopez, 18, of Biglerville, Adams County, succumbed to injuries sustained in a training exercise at the (Letterkenny Army Depot.)

From the article PFC Lopez was shot in the chest by a civilian contracted to the Military Police who was armed with an M17 pistol.

"The family also asked to record a call with the assistant U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who said:

“I see no evidence thus far that anybody intended to kill Krystofer. The question would be whether there was gross negligence that led to his death.”

The assistant U.S. district attorney, Scott Ford, added that he cannot provide the family with facts about what happened and said that information would come from a Criminal Investigation Division agent.

That call came on April 15 from CID Agent Kevin Nolan.

“He said that Krystofer got shot in the chest by the civilian that was contracted by the Army police. And we had questions. But they wouldn’t even answer our questions,” Carmen said.

The family says they were told Krystofer was shot with an M-17 handgun, a gun the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission banned last year because of unintended discharges and improper handling.

The family says Agent Nolan told them it was just Krystofer and the instructor when the instructor’s weapon went off inside the police station’s training room at Letterkenny.

“The bullet lodged in his spine. That’s what killed him. That’s what we were told,” Carmen said. “We’re like, why is the guy loading and unloading and teaching my son the gun in a building? Where was everybody else?”

Carmen also wondered: “Why didn’t he have his vest on?”

Krystofer sent a picture of his gear, including his vest, to his mom from Letterkenny.

The Criminal Investigation Division told them the instructor is under investigation and the gun was sent to a lab in Georgia for testing to determine if it malfunctioned."

So, mishandling of a firearm during training, or another example of an unintended discharge by the Sig M17?