7/4 Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 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 going to 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." Quote
frank m Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 Did that really happen. Almost that same scene was used as the beginning of an episode of "Six Feet Under" on HBO earlier this year. Quote
robviti Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 (edited) Did that really happen. Almost that same scene was used as the beginning of an episode of "Six Feet Under" on HBO earlier this year. Apparently not. Here's what I found at www.snopes.com: "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: Some of these stories are really true. See if you can figure out which ones they are. Apparently 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.)" Edited November 21, 2004 by jazzshrink Quote
7/4 Posted November 21, 2004 Author Report Posted November 21, 2004 Do you think there was a reason I typed "urban myth" in to the subject line? Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 Do you think there was a reason I typed "urban myth" in to the subject line? Because you're Jesus? Quote
7/4 Posted November 21, 2004 Author Report Posted November 21, 2004 Do you think there was a reason I typed "urban myth" in to the subject line? Because you're Jesus? Do you have to tell everybody? don't worry 'bout it. I won't hold it against you. Quote
JSngry Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 (edited) Well, here's a true story: In the late 1970s. I worked as an aide in a psychiatric hospital. Part of the gig was to mingle with the patients, playing Scrabble, shooting the bull, etc. One day I'm sitting arounf talking to one patient who's half-conversing while all the while looking out the window. All of a sudden, he jumps up and says, "LOOK, IT'S JESUS!!!" I turned around, and all I saw was a white panel truck. "Dude," I said, "that's just a panel truck. Relax." The patient said, quite emphatically, "DAMMIT JIM, I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JESUS AND A PANEL TRUCK!" One of us had to be wrong.... Edited November 21, 2004 by JSngry Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 Not necessarily. Perhaps it was really Muhammed. He probably looks a bit like Jesus. Quote
ghost of miles Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 I think Jim's brought us back full circle to "What would Jesus Drive?" Quote
7/4 Posted November 21, 2004 Author Report Posted November 21, 2004 I think Jim's brought us back full circle to "What would Jesus Drive?" He'd walk. Quote
RDK Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 At least we know he wouldn't need a boat... Quote
JSngry Posted November 21, 2004 Report Posted November 21, 2004 Especially if he drove one of those water cars that George Fenneman used in the Lipton Instant Iced Tea commercial! Quote
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