New! Letter from America
Darwin awards (we're told - and just in case you hadn't
heard) are
awarded to those people who kill themselves (unintentionally) in the
most bizarre (dumb) ways!
I smell a darwin award comin'.......
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 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
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."