Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO – A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road."
The truck rear-ended the car on U.S. Highway 281, both vehicles spun across a median then came to a stop along a barrier in the opposite lanes. Both drivers suffered only minor injuries.
"He just said God said she wasn't driving right, and she needed to be taken off the road," Bexar County Sheriff's Office spokesman Kyle Coleman said in the online edition of the San Antonio Express-News. "God must have been with them, 'cause any other time, the severity of this crash, it would have been a fatal."
The pickup driver did not tell police how the woman was driving. Police could not find alcohol or drugs in either driver.
A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for a man.
(I hope it was THIS man)
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"A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for a man."
Why do they always wait until after something like this? You can't tell me this guy wasn't showing any abnormal behavior before this.
This is also why anyone who ever says "god told me" or "god spoke to me" or any derivative thereof needs serious and immediate evaluation by trained mental health professionals. What they don't fucking need is a bunch of religious idiots encouraging such behavior when they hear about it.
Well, god lied to you.
He was successful as the psychiatric evaluation probably will force you off the road for a long time ;)
Here's a possibility:
* Man was driving with Excessive Speed at 100+ miles per hour.
Another possibility:
* Man had been awake for over a day-and-a-half and was beginning to become delusional from lack of sleep.
At least, I HOPE one of these is the case.
This is also why anyone who ever says "god told me" or "god spoke to me" or any derivative thereof needs serious and immediate evaluation by trained mental health professionals. What they don't fucking need is a bunch of religious idiots encouraging such behavior when they hear about it.
Incredibly offensive and completely right. Hearing voices means you need serious help, unless the voices call themselves Jesus, Allah or some other holy reference. Then its a 'religious right', an annoying term since religion can mean whatever the fuck someone wants it to, and where oppressing them by putting a stop to this.
I wonder if the woman had a bumper sticker that said "Coexist" or something like that. Or if, as other observant posters here have noted, he was just a really crappy driver who thought if he "blamed it on God" he could be excused.
Which is why I don't have anything like that on my car, (even though I'd like to.) : )
Genuine lunatic or creative way of side-stepping possible criminal charges? You decide.
Edit: Hah, seems I'm not the only one who's wondering about this. It's pretty hard to fake being crazy though, since they watch you pretty much 24/7 when you're under evaluation.
At any rate, you'd have to be a least a little crazy to be going 100mph... I actually read that as 100kmph at first, them realized it was in miles and did a double take.
tracer: I've been awake for almost 48 hours now, and I'm still capable of semi-decent spelling and grammar... I'm certainly not tempted to run anyone off the road in the name of FSM.
Somewhere in an alternate universe, the man died in a horrible gasoline fire and I laughed because it sadistically confirmed my beliefs.
@ Mrs. Antichrist: I read that as "100 kilomiles per hour" until I realized you meant "100 kilometers per hour"
100 kilomiles per hour would be quite impossible in a truck.
God must have been with them, 'cause any other time, the severity of this crash, it would have been a fatal.
Oh you are fucking kidding me. A crazy man starts hearing voices from god and damn near kills somebody, and the authorities declare that this is evidence not only of god's presence, but of his goodness and benevolence? They should be sectioned along with him!
@Brain:
But this is in San Antonio TEXAS. Being a native Texan, I am not at all surprised that the Bexar County Sheriff's Office rep proclaimed that god was protecting both of them.
I am also not terribly surprised at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour on US 281, it is a pretty nice road, fairly smooth and multiple lanes.
Nononono, I swear it, Mr. Police Officer! Ceiling Cat told me to steal that guy's television and computer! He told me that he'd seen that guy fap too often to allow this to continue! I had a DIVINE DUTY to take his TV and PC!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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