The Rapture
ARKANSAS CITY (EAP) -- 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 blow up sex 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, and 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 sex dolls,
Jenkins replied "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected
anything like this to happen."
