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."