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AntiCoup2K4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:32 PM
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Arkansas Woman Killed in Mistaken Rapture
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 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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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:33 PM
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1. debunked at snopes
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 03:34 PM by Worst Username Ever
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:34 PM
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4. Yeah ...
but it's still funny as shit!
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:35 PM
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6. agreed
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GRLMGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:33 PM
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2. self delete n/t
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 03:34 PM by GRLMGC
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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:33 PM
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3. .
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 03:34 PM by Lucky Luciano
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:35 PM
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5. Do you have a link for this story? I'm in Arkansas and absolutely
believe it!!
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:40 PM
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15. Here's The Link
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:35 PM
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7. One less lunatic
on the planet.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:36 PM
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8. Hilarious
And the sex dolls makes it pretty obvious it's a tall tale.

Love it.
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PittLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:36 PM
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9. Six Feet Under used this story...
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 03:37 PM by PittLib
Did it really happen and when?
Debunked, anyway. Nevermind.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:38 PM
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13. It didn't really happen...totally fictional...
...as the link to the Snopes entry indicates.

repeating: http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm
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quispquake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:46 PM
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17. I saw that episode the same day I read the story...
My officemate too...we both called each other immediately!!! My favorite 'death' of the year on Six Feet Under!!!
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:36 PM
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10. This story line was apparently played out on "Six Feet Under."
I missed the episode, but remember it being discussed.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:37 PM
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11. Most of this was in the script for "Six Feet Under" earlier this year...
...sex dolls and all.

Woman sees the naked, helium filled mannequins floating away...gets out of her car...runs into the street while looking up....


and Gets SMACKED by a bus! DEAD on Arrival.

I never laughed so hard at anything in that show before...or since.
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PittLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:40 PM
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14. yeah - down to the husband's quote ...
if I recall correctly. Funny, too, is that the blow up dolls were part of a porn awards show (right?).
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:42 PM
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16. It was supposedly a trade show they were heading for...
...so I am sick for laughing? I don't think so. :)
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PittLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:48 PM
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18. ah ... right. thanks!
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 03:48 PM by PittLib
and no, you are not sick. this was an instant classic. :)
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:37 PM
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12. Actually this was also an episode of "Six Feet Under"
Hilarious as shit to watch!
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:48 PM
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19. You can't tell me this isn't literally true . . .
It's too weird for fiction.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 03:59 PM
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20. Why would you inflate 12 dolls BEORE you got to a toga party?
No wonder I smelled onions...

:headbang:
rocknation
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