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

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 28 21:55:31 PDT 2001


It sounds like she qualifies for the next episode of _America's Favorite Living Martyrs_.

Alec

--- Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema <crdbronx at erols.com> wrote:
>
>
> "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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