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Rapture joke provokes heart attack
Lark News ^ | July 15, 2003

Posted on 08/06/2008 9:46:16 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

AUSTIN — Herbert Washington, whom co-workers at Significant Plastics Inc. say was unduly concerned with the rapture and the second coming of Christ, suffered a serious heart attack when co-workers pretended they'd been caught away without him.

Last Tuesday, they lay work outfits on their chairs and hid in a supply room, and when Herbert came back from the restroom, he thought the rapture had occurred. The janitor, an outspoken Muslim, pretended to have witnessed everyone disappear and ran around the office feigning panic. Herbert fell to the ground clutching his heart and screaming, "I knew you'd forget me, Jesus! What did I do wrong?" He was taken to a local hospital. The employees emerged, sobered, from the supply room and gathered up their extra clothes.

"We didn't mean to scare him to death," said one woman. "He's just always talking about it, so today we decided to turn the tables on him."

Washington underwent bypass surgery and is recovering well and "digging into the Bible like never before," says his wife.


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1 posted on 08/06/2008 9:46:16 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

He must be a Democrat if he’s that gullible.


2 posted on 08/06/2008 9:50:00 AM PDT by mass55th
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To: Alex Murphy
1) I hate practical jokes.
2) Can anyone really be "unduly concerned with the rapture and the second coming of Christ"? It seems kind of important to me.
3 posted on 08/06/2008 9:50:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: Alex Murphy

Washington underwent bypass surgery and is recovering well and “digging into the Bible like never before,” says his wife.


primary source rather than secondary source.......


4 posted on 08/06/2008 9:50:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Alex Murphy

A co-worker always talking about the rapture would annoy the heck out of me and make me seriously question his sanity, but that was a pretty mean trick. OTOH, I do remember when I was a teen working at a cafeteria and we put a rubber snake in the mop bucket of a guy who was scared to death of snakes.


5 posted on 08/06/2008 9:50:38 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: PeterPrinciple

Lark News fools me every time......................


6 posted on 08/06/2008 9:51:43 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Soliton

You might be interested in this story.


7 posted on 08/06/2008 9:52:05 AM PDT by indcons (People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. - A. J. Liebling)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The rapture seems like pure fiction to me. The guy was probably a real PITA about it. Maybe that cured him.


8 posted on 08/06/2008 9:52:54 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Alex Murphy

Other than the heart attack part, that is a really funny joke.


9 posted on 08/06/2008 9:53:49 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Alex Murphy

They got me a couple of time, but now any time I see wacky-religion stories I check to see if the source is Lark.


10 posted on 08/06/2008 9:54:03 AM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: PeterPrinciple

...darn it, Lark caught me again too....


11 posted on 08/06/2008 9:54:45 AM PDT by mnehring
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