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 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 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 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 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."
