[Fwd: [ASDnet] Rapture! False alarm.]

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema crdbronx at erols.com
Mon Aug 27 08:53:50 PDT 2001


"Eric V. Kirk" wrote:


> ARKANSAS CITY (EAP) -- A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after
> leaping through her moving car's sunroof during an incident best described
> as "a mistaken rapture" by dozens of eyewitnesses. Thirteen other people
> were injured after a twenty-car pile up resulted from people trying to avoid
> hitting the woman who was apparently convinced that the rapture was
> occurring when she saw twelve people floating up into the air, and then
> passed a man on the side of the road who she claimed was Jesus.
>
> "She started screaming "He's back, He's back" and climbed right out of the
> sunroof and jumped off the roof of the car," said Everet Williams, husband
> of 28-year-old Georgann Williams who was pronounced dead at the scene.
>
> "I was slowing down but she wouldn't wait till I stopped," Williams said.
> She thought the rapture was happening and was convinced that Jesus was gonna
> lift her up into the sky," he went on to say. "This is the strangest thing
> I've seen since I've been on the force," said Paul Madison, first officer on
> the scene.
>
> Madison questioned the man who looked like Jesus and
> discovered that he was dressed up as Jesus and was on his way to a toga
> costume party when the tarp covering the bed of his pickup truck came loose
> and released twelve blow up sex dolls filled with helium which floated up
> into the air.
>
> Ernie Jenkins, 32, of Fort Smith, who's been told by several of his
> friends that he looks like Jesus, pulled over and lifted his arms into the
> air in frustration, and said "Come back here," just as the Williams' car
> passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was Jesus lifting people up
> into the sky as they passed by him, according to her husband, who says his
> wife loved Jesus more than anything else. When asked for comments about the
> twelve sex dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I
> never expected anything like this to happen."
>
> The preceding is a personal opinion. Try not to post more than daily.
>
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