This story will really make you think twice about all the goat sacrifices you’ve been doing lately.

Twenty-year-old Richard Pananian comes from a traditional Armenian family in Burbank, California, and he’d been suffering from some health issues recently.

So last Sunday, they performed a ritual at an Armenian church, where they sacrificed a lamb to protect Richard from harm.

We’re not making fun of church rituals at all. But unfortunately it didn’t work.

Richard was driving on a highway just five days later in his Ford Fiesta when he rear-ended a pickup truck; got thrown out of his car; landed on top of a sign on the highway at least 20 feet in the air and died on contact.

He wasn’t wearing his seat belt at the time.