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Lady Mistakes Floating Blow-Up Dolls For The Rapture; Dies (UL; Hoax)

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My brother recieved news about this story on-line but he can't find any proof of where it came from, so I thought I'd ask here if anybody can find any more info..

Basically, a lady was driving and thought the Rapture was happening, so she leaped out of her sunroof and was killed in on-coming traffic.

Apparently, a trucker had 12 blow-up sex dolls with him and they had accidentaly escaped from his cab. He had long hair and a beard. The dolls were floating up and the trucker was following them, and so the woman in the car thought Jesus was there to release her from life.

It's a really, realy weird story, but I figure it's just possible that it really happened. Anybody else hear of it?
 
Hi Mr RING,


I remember seing this fella on Snopes a little while back. They report that it's untrue, but it's certainly done the rounds ont he email front.

snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm
Link is obsolete. The current link is:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/leap-of-faith/
 
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Thanks for the dilligent research, comrad! Rather than deleat this thread and hang my head in shame, I'll lkeave this thread up in case the story is going around again.

:cool:
 
Drat! It's been Snopes'd!

I was hoping to fill a post with pictorial and textual representations of laughter and schadenfreude! ;)
 
Just checked out Snopes and it provides a link to a site called

Religion in the News:
http://web2.airmail.net/~elo/news/

It has the tagline:

'Some of the stories below are really true. See if you can figure out which ones they are.'

The contents include:
Pope John Paul Prays For Rain
Mormons Picket Venus Razor Sales
Porno-filled Bible Causes Boston Mistrials
Burst Hemorrhoid Causes Trouble in Jerusalem
Canadian Christians Ask Jesus For Help With Trash Problem
Empty Caskets Found in Houston Cemeteries
The Pope Declares Himself Immortal
Jerusalem Monks Trade Blows in Unholy Row
Argument Over Religion Ends With Slaying
Dozens Get Carbon Monoxide Poisoning At Church
Fire-Starting Chimp to be Destroyed
Pope Pushes For Calendar Change
Arkansas Woman Killed During Mistaken Rapture
Detroit Church Infected With Anthrax
Mount Rushmore Attacked by Christians
Lost Bible Causes Sticky Situation
Parrot Preaches the Gospel
Man of God Preaches to Insects
Christian Trumpeters Surround Abortion Clinic
Gingerbread Jesus Proves Fatal
Book Burning Still Goes On Today
Jesus Statue Attracts Crowds of Women
Communion Ceremonies Under Attack
Iowa Pigs Pray Before Meals
Robot Preachers For Sale
Man Found Dead on Bed of Bibles
Firecrackers For God
NASA Listens to God
Bubble Blowing Christian Sues Former Employer
World's First Christian Dog
Satan Scares Elderly Man to Death
The World's Most Superstitious Person
Tulsa Couple Sues Bible-Bellowing Baptists
Jesus 2000 Doll Hits Store Shelves
Click to expand...

Going to see in there's any more potential U/L in there.
 
The rapture storie's just too good:

Arkansas Woman Killed in
Mistaken Rapture
by Elroy Willis
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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," 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 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."


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I'm sure you've all heard this rapture UL before, it makes me laugh so much I thought I'd drop it in anyway at this point:


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."

http://www.snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm
 
Anonymous said:
I remember seing this fella on Snopes a little while back. They report that it's untrue, but it's certainly done the rounds ont he email front.
snopes.com/religion/rapture.htm
Link is obsolete. The current link is:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/leap-of-faith/
Click to expand...

Here are the bottom line explanation and references from Snopes ...
Origins: This inventive work of fiction was penned and released onto the Internet on 2 August 2001. It was written by Elroy Willis, proprietor of Religion in the News, a site that warns visitors what they’re in for: “Some of these stories are really true. See if you can figure out which ones they are.”

Apparently, some readers didn’t manage to work out which were which, because this tale has washed up in our inbox numerous times since its debut.

In October 2001, the story was repeated in the pages of The Weekly World News, a tabloid whose stock in trade is sensationalistic fiction written up in the style of news accounts. In the WWN report, Little Rock, Arkansas, was changed to Atlanta, Georgia, and Georgann Williams, 28, became Geraldine Solstice, 58. The dead woman’s husband shifted from being Everett Williams to Everett Solstice, and Jesus lookalike Ernie Jenkins, 32, was magically transmuted into Madison Grosnik, 28. ...

(Elroy Willis later penned a follow-up article describing his reactions to his original story’s becoming mistaken for a genuine news report.)

Sightings: The 20 June 2004 episode of HBO’s television series Six Feet Under (“In Case of Rapture”) opened with a dramatization of this item. Elroy Willis has set down his thoughts about HBO’s appropriating his creation.

Additional information:
The Weekly World News. “Granny Mistakes Sex Dolls for Angels.” 9 October 2001.
SOURCE: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/leap-of-faith/
 
EnolaGaia said:
Sightings: The 20 June 2004 episode of HBO’s television series Six Feet Under (“In Case of Rapture”) opened with a dramatization of this item. Elroy Willis has set down his thoughts about HBO’s appropriating his creation. ...
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Here's Elroy Willis' published response to the HBO use of his fictional story ...
Mistaken Rapture in HBO's Six Feet Under Series
by Elroy Willis
Friday June 25, 2004

The writers at HBO liked my story idea and used it in the opening scene of the June 20th episode of Six Feet Under. I'm hoping they might like some of my other story ideas as well, and that I might get to see some of my other stories played out on the screen.
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SOURCE: https://web.archive.org/web/20041213232140/http://web2.airmail.net/~elo/news/sixfeetunder.html
 
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