gblowfish
12-08-2004, 08:34 AM
My apologies if this has been posted before. This story was sent to me by a pal of mine in St. Louis. Woman killed and causes big car wreck in Arkasnas because she believes the Rapture is under way. Story posted below:
Arkansas Woman Killed in Mistaken Rapture
by Elroy Willis
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 eye-witnesses.
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 believed was Jesus.
"She started screaming `He's back! He's back!' and climbed out
through 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 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 then floated up into the sky.
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," just as the
Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was
Jesus lifting people up into heaven as they drove by him.
"I think my wife loved Jesus more than she loved me," the widower
said when asked why his wife would do such a thing.
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."
http://web2.iadfw.net/~elo/news/rapture.html
Arkansas Woman Killed in Mistaken Rapture
by Elroy Willis
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 eye-witnesses.
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 believed was Jesus.
"She started screaming `He's back! He's back!' and climbed out
through 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 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 then floated up into the sky.
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," just as the
Williams' car passed him, and Mrs. Williams was sure that it was
Jesus lifting people up into heaven as they drove by him.
"I think my wife loved Jesus more than she loved me," the widower
said when asked why his wife would do such a thing.
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."
http://web2.iadfw.net/~elo/news/rapture.html