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Post by Lynnie on Jul 29, 2003 11:43:56 GMT -5
Aba, have you heard Shirley Ceasar's song/story "He Will Come?" It's similar to your experience.
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Post by Aba21 on Jul 29, 2003 12:09:13 GMT -5
Aba, have you heard Shirley Ceasar's song/story "He Will Come?" It's similar to your experience. Now that you mention it. I have.  |
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Post by earthangel on Jul 29, 2003 14:50:30 GMT -5
Wow Aba...I've heard stories like that before, and alot of them end in "...I turned around, and they has disappeared". Stuff like that amazes me
The only thing I can think of to go in this thread was this story my friend's dad was looking into (he works for the govt or something), and it doesn't have a happy ending. ANywayzs, this guy was on top of a roof, and he looked at the roof of the building next to it and it didn't look too far away from the one he was standing on. So I guess he wanted to have a lil fun and be a daredevil, because he tried to jump to the top of the other building. Well...he didn't make it. The worse part is he fell on one of those tall (about 15 feet high), spikey fences. When he fell, the back of his head got stuck on one of the spikes, and he was beheaded as his body broke apart from his neck and landed on the ground. And there were pictures! They were unbelievable. I'd never seen anything like that...his head was posted on the top of the fence and his body was laid out some feet below the head. What a way to die...
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Post by 2Sweet on Jul 29, 2003 15:46:42 GMT -5
This week has brought some personal tragedy to me and my family. I have some health issiues going on in my immediate family as well. So it has been very tough to deal with to say the least. While I was getting coffee this morning a man came in the coffee shop, no shirt, no shoes, unkempt and walked over to me and said," I don't know who you are but, The lord will take care of you." Now of course I looked at him like he was crazy until I saw him go out and get in a brand new Mercedes Benz and drive off. I began to think how crazy could he be? And why did he pick me out of all the people in the store to talk to? Amazing! It's a beautiful thing to know that God has us on his mind (((((Aba21)))). And He was just reminding you that He sees what youre going through and hasn't forgotten about you. If that "man" that you saw had left on foot, you might have labeled him a weirdo, or if he would have disappeared or climbed into a chariot, you might have labeled yourself as a weirdo! ;D "...Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee..." Josh 1:9 |
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 29, 2003 15:49:09 GMT -5
Wow Aba...I've heard stories like that before, and alot of them end in "...I turned around, and they has disappeared". Stuff like that amazes me The only thing I can think of to go in this thread was this story my friend's dad was looking into (he works for the govt or something), and it doesn't have a happy ending. ANywayzs, this guy was on top of a roof, and he looked at the roof of the building next to it and it didn't look too far away from the one he was standing on. So I guess he wanted to have a lil fun and be a daredevil, because he tried to jump to the top of the other building. Well...he didn't make it. The worse part is he fell on one of those tall (about 15 feet high), spikey fences. When he fell, the back of his head got stuck on one of the spikes, and he was beheaded as his body broke apart from his neck and landed on the ground. And there were pictures! They were unbelievable. I'd never seen anything like that...his head was posted on the top of the fence and his body was laid out some feet below the head. What a way to die... That is SO SICK! The same type of thing happened to my old friend's uncle when he was little back in the 50's, only it was a barn and a pitchfork. Yuck. |
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 29, 2003 16:10:07 GMT -5
Wow Aba...I've heard stories like that before, and alot of them end in "...I turned around, and they has disappeared". Stuff like that amazes me The only thing I can think of to go in this thread was this story my friend's dad was looking into (he works for the govt or something), and it doesn't have a happy ending. ANywayzs, this guy was on top of a roof, and he looked at the roof of the building next to it and it didn't look too far away from the one he was standing on. So I guess he wanted to have a lil fun and be a daredevil, because he tried to jump to the top of the other building. Well...he didn't make it. The worse part is he fell on one of those tall (about 15 feet high), spikey fences. When he fell, the back of his head got stuck on one of the spikes, and he was beheaded as his body broke apart from his neck and landed on the ground. And there were pictures! They were unbelievable. I'd never seen anything like that...his head was posted on the top of the fence and his body was laid out some feet below the head. What a way to die... I've seen pictures of something like this on the internet. |
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Post by Lynnie on Jul 29, 2003 20:58:37 GMT -5
N.J. bank heist a family affair
Teenage girls
get the money,
mom drives the getaway car
This ranch house in Barnegat, N.J., was the home Kathleen Wortman Jones was trying to save from foreclosure when she drove a getaway car in a bank heist pulled off by her twin 14-year-old daughters. (There's a pic of the house)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BARNEGAT, N.J., July 25 — Kathleen Wortman Jones was just another financially strapped New Jersey homeowner until the day she drove up to the Sun National Bank with her 14-year-old twin daughters. Desperate to save her house from foreclosure, the 34-year-old mother of four served as the getaway driver after the girls robbed the bank of $3,050.
It was two days before Halloween when the 5-foot-2 girls announced the stickup. ‘What is this, a joke?’ the branch manager said.
THE HEIST involved the entire family, according to prosecutors. In addition to Jones and the twins, a 16-year-old daughter was arrested for conspiracy and husband Kevin Jones was charged as an accessory.
But it was the participation of the girls that stunned police.
“Fourteen-year-old girls steal lipstick, not rob banks,” said Detective Michael Duffy. “The fact that such young girls — children, really — were involved in such a serious crime does set you back a little.”
Jones had already seen her share of setbacks. A teenage bride, she gave birth to her first child at 17 and the twins at 19. After her first marriage broke up, she met Kevin Jones, who was working as a sheetrock installer after a three-year prison term for selling cocaine. The couple had a daughter together before marrying in 1996.
She took odd jobs — as a Kmart cashier, an orderly at a nursing home — to help pay the bills for a family unit that now included his disabled mother and, sometimes, two of his children from a previous relationship.
FROM BANKRUPTCY TO ROBBERY
In 2000, they moved into a modest four-bedroom ranch house. Last year, they went for months at a time without making the $1,000 mortgage payments. In July, Kathleen Jones filed for bankruptcy.
Things worsened in September, when Kevin Jones was hospitalized with congestive heart failure and could not work.
After the mortgage company that held the $94,223 note filed a foreclosure notice, Kathleen Jones’ children took matters into their own hands, according to Kevin Jones.
“They figured ‘If Daddy goes to work, he’s going to die. Let’s go get the money,”’ he said. “It was the children that thought this up, not her. She woke up and caught them stealing my car to do a robbery. She drove that car to make sure her kids were safe, that whatever happened to them would happen to her.”
Kevin Jones was asleep when they left on the morning of Oct. 29, 2002, for the bank, about five miles from their home.
There, the twins — identified in court papers only as E.W. and C.W. — hopped out. One donned a black knit ski mask, the other a nylon stocking. One carried a silver pistol, which turned out to be a toy that fires pellets at a Velcro target. In they went, like “a teenage Thelma and Louise,” as one detective put it.
A GAMBLING JUNKET
It was two days before Halloween when the 5-foot-2 girls announced the stickup.
“What is this, a joke?” the branch manager said.
“No, we ain’t (expletive) joking,” one of them replied. “Give us your money.” She handed a black plastic trash bag to a teller.
The teller stuffed the cash in and the girls ran out, one removing her mask as she ran past a drive-thru window before jumping into Mom’s 1992 Buick Skylark for the getaway.
Dad found out about the robbery when they got home.
“What was I supposed to do? Say, ‘Here, police, my wife and kids just robbed a bank’? My only thought at that time was ‘What do we do now?”’ Kevin Jones said.
The family drove to Atlantic City, where the girls hung out on the Boardwalk as the parents gambled in a casino. On the ride home, Kevin Jones allegedly threw the toy pistol in a trash bin.
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Post by Dbaby on Jul 30, 2003 10:56:38 GMT -5
LOL! Yeah, my friends (twins actually) told me about that yesterday. Wow.... once again, people amaze me. You'd think I'd be used to them by now.
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Post by MzClassic on Jul 30, 2003 16:08:40 GMT -5
This week has brought some personal tragedy to me and my family. I have some health issiues going on in my immediate family as well. So it has been very tough to deal with to say the least. While I was getting coffee this morning a man came in the coffee shop, no shirt, no shoes, unkempt and walked over to me and said," I don't know who you are but, The lord will take care of you." Now of course I looked at him like he was crazy until I saw him go out and get in a brand new Mercedes Benz and drive off. I began to think how crazy could he be? And why did he pick me out of all the people in the store to talk to? Amazing! :comfort: (((ABA))) that's a very interesting story..I would have assumed the same thing...when things like that happen, you can't help but to think that GOD is speaking to you..how do you explain it other wise  I hope that YOU and your family member's come through this okay...God be with you((((ABA)))) |
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Post by Aba21 on Jul 30, 2003 19:52:01 GMT -5
You people here on this board are the reason I come here and you never disappoint. Although we don't know each other personally, we have a love and caring atmostphere that makes others want to be here. It is what life is all about. I thank you all for caring and my family thanks you too. we are still dealing with some issues and after the weekend I will give the whole story. But now I want to just keep it in the family until it is done. Again, thank you.
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Post by tdallasw on Aug 6, 2003 8:35:23 GMT -5
Number One Idiot NewsFrom a medical student doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center: Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away. Here's your sign, lady. Wear it with pride. 
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Post by Lynnie on Aug 6, 2003 8:40:10 GMT -5
Number One Idiot NewsFrom a medical student doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center: Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the emergency room right away. Here's your sign, lady. Wear it with pride. This has to be a joke, TDallas. |
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Post by tdallasw on Aug 6, 2003 15:36:31 GMT -5
I'm sure it is.... but it's still stupid.  |
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Post by MzClassic on Aug 8, 2003 16:19:25 GMT -5
 Talk about a "do-it-yourself vasectomy!!!! :hairraiser: :hairraiser: :hairraiser: |
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Post by tdallasw on Aug 9, 2003 8:51:49 GMT -5
and we thought it was bad to get a "case of crabs"
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :hairraiser:
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