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Subject:        Apocalypse now
Date sent:      Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:27:33 -0500

ARKANSAS CITY (AP) --
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 Everett 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."