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," Willams
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 blown-up adult-sized 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, 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 was a devout Christian.
When asked for comments about the twelve adult-sized dolls, Jenkins
replied, "This is all just too weird for me. I never expected anything like
this to happen." |
