Bet she voted for Bush before she "Raptured"

[BernieBear]

Bizarre Accident Kills Local Woman
December 3, 2004

ARKANSAS CITY (AP) -- A Little Rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sun roof 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 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 blowup 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. 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 dolls, Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like this to happen.”

And they say we're :tinfoilhat:

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

1. Link? I say it's parody until I see a link.

Sorry. Need a link.

[Wilber_Stool]

2. This one's really making the rounds again.........n/t

[Soopercali]

3. Oh, come on. Is this for real?

This is a plot line lifted directly from an episode of "Six Feet Under."

[Hokie]

4. This one again??

Still funny though.

[ET Awful]

5. BUAHAHAHAHAHA

edit: Okay, so it's probably a parody, but it's still hilarious :)

[Ian David]

9. Mistaken Rapture: Urban Legend

http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm

Claim: A woman dies leaping through her car's sunroof when events convince her that Jesus has returned.

Status: False.

Origins: This
inventive work of fiction was penned and released onto the Internet on 2 August 2001. It was written by Elroy Willis, proprietor of Religion in the News, a site that warns visitors what they're in for:
http://web2.airmail.net/~elo/news/
Some of these stories are really true.
See if you can figure out which ones they are.

Apparently Tuesday's child some readers didn't manage to work out which were which, because this tale has washed up in our inbox numerous times since its debut.

In October 2001, the story was repeated in the pages of The Weekly World News, a tabloid whose stock in trade is sensationalistic fiction written up in the style of news accounts. In the WWN report, Little Rock, Arkansas, was changed to Atlanta, Georgia, and Georgann Williams, 28, became Geraldine Solstice, 58. The dead woman's husband shifted from being Everett Williams to Everett Solstice, and Jesus lookalike Ernie Jenkins, 32, was magically transmuted into Madison Grosnik, 28. Yeesh.

(Elroy Willis later penned a follow-up article describing his reactions to his original story's becoming mistaken for a genuine news report.)
http://web2.airmail.net/~elo/news/rapturetalk.html

Sightings: The 20 June 2004 episode of HBO's television series Six Feet Under ("In Case of Rapture") opened with a dramatization of this item. Elroy Willis has set down his thoughts about HBO's appropriating his creation.

The rest:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm

[Corgigal]

6. this was done on 6 feet under

last season. Funny stuff.

[fryguy]

7. what a wild confluence of events......

and what a crazy reaction.....

on edit: not true - http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm

[noamnety]

8. snopes confirms it's an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm

It's a funny one, though.

[BernieBear]

10. Well it did make me laugh!!! Sorry for the non-reliability though!

:)

[fertilizeonarbusto]

11. I wish this was real

It's just so good.

[KyndCulture]

12. The bad thing is...

It COULD be true... We aren't far away from this happening...

I just wanna know if I can have her car.... if it will drive in snow that is, cause mine won't.


:) :)

and that was one of the funniest episodes of 6 Feet. Love that show.

[Walt Starr]

13. Beleive me, if a false rapture alarm story really happened

it would be much stranger than this one!

Truth is always stranger than fiction.

[KyndCulture]

14. Oh no doubt there!

It would involve an entire church bus or something to be sure.

[TN al]

15. Funny, but maybe I am too logical not to have doubted from early on ...

... I have suggested this on DU before, maybe now is an even better time to try it. Let's start talking to these fundies as if the rapture has already happened and that people still on earth were those left behind. I imagine their reaction to be sort of like this:

"What! What are you talking about? Why wasn't I informed? There must be a mistake!

[flobee1kenobi]

16. The sad part is..

that we have to check sources before we know that it is false!
Its no longer suprising to anyone that this could actually happen

[oc2002]

17. We should start releasing blow up dolls before the next election to cull..

..the Bush supporters from the gene pool. ha-ha.