In Williamsburg, Kentucky, a young girl named Codie Thacker dropped out of a cross-country meet to stand up for God when she was given the bib number '666'. The young girl reportedly had been training since June for the event, but when she got ready to compete and recieved the number on her bib she reluctantly withdrew from the race. The majority of the people recall the number '666' being the mark of the beast or Satan himself, so to put that bib on, Codie stated that no one should ever flaunt such a number. Thacker told the officials that the race officials refused to switch out the number, so she stood up for God and dropped out of the race. Codie Thacker said seeing "the mark of the beast" on Saturday made her feel physically sick and demanded that race chiefs issue her with a different tag". But they refused, so Thacker decided to quit the regional competition before it had even begun. "I just don't believe that 666 should be a number that's anywhere on your body and I did not want that number associated with me. It kind of made me sick," she repotedly told WYMT.

Codie Thacker's Coach, Gina Croley said she was baffled when organizers from Kentucky High School Athletic Association refused to issue the Whitley County High student with a new number. "I don't think it was any type of, you know, let's give somebody this number, but when it was brought to their attention, I feel if it were possible, it could've been changed," she said. To watch the full News story go here.