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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:43 PM
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An apparent cas of premature rapture
MY daughter sent me this. I have no link. I have no idea if it really happened, but I want to believe.

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."

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tsakshaug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:48 PM
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1. LOL
good story even if not true.
so the roller got rolled eh?
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physioex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:53 PM
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4. Probably not...but it is funny EOM
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quispquake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:48 PM
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2. A truly amazing story...
But unfortunately, a hoax:

http://web2.iadfw.net/~elo/news/rapturetalk.html

Got me though!!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:50 PM
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3. Didn't see it on Landover, but sure seems like one of their gems.
Thank you for a much needed giggle break. Now I have to check the Onion.
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 12:56 PM
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5. Way too bizarre.
I'm going to log this one into the "joke" file until we can find some independent confirmation.
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stopthegop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-04 01:01 PM
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6. why do you 'want to believe' a woman was killed? eom
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