Woman who was driving while praying with her eyes closed hits house

[DonViejo]

MARY ESTHER — A 28-year-old woman was taken to the hospital for evaluation after driving into a Mary Esther house Thursday morning.

The woman told Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies she was praying at the time and had her eyes closed, according to the OCSO. The Fort Walton Beach woman was traveling eastbound on Marcia Drive when she failed to stop at a stop sign, went through an intersection and into the yard of a home on Miramar Drive.

She tried to back out but got stuck in the sand, the OCSO said. She was cited for reckless driving with property damage.

No one in the house was injured.

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http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20160711/woman-who-was-driving-while-praying-with-her-eyes-closed-hits-house

[liberal N proud]

1. No words

[snooper2]

11. WORDS! I think she lied, she was really looking at her phone trying to find Pikachu

[woodsprite]

2. I guess she though Jesus would take the wheel. n/t

[sarae]

4. OMG

[whatthehey]

3. So God is her *lousy* co-pilot

Will "driverless cars" get blamed for this like Tesla and their decidedly non-driverless by intent car did?

[klook]

5. She was praying for a Tesla

Mercedes-Benz just doesn't cut it anymore.

[msanthrope]

19. Her friends all have Porches. nt

[csziggy]

26. A song of great social import

[redstatebluegirl]

6. Good grief! Did she think that saying she was praying would get her out of this????

If she hit my house she had better be praying....

[DetlefK]

7. And this is the kind of people that demands "religious freedom".

[Democrats Ascendant]

8. Seriously?

She's either lying or dumber than dirt.

"So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man" (Luke 21:36).

:smh:

[Wounded Bear]

9. Jesus take the wheel...

Oh shit!

[LiberalFighter]

10. There really needs to be a law against stupidity.

[Major Nikon]

16. Reckless driving covers quite a bit of it

[Brother Buzz]

12. Forget it Jake, it's Florida

[ChickenGuru]

13. Plastic Jesus, indeed.

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car
Comes in colors, pink and pleasant
Glows in the dark, it's iridescent
Take it with you when you travel far
Get yourself a sweet madonna
Dressed in rhinestone, settin' on a
Pedestal of Abalone Shells
Goin' 90, I ain't scared
Cause I got the Virgin Mary
Assuring me that I won't go to hell

[csziggy]

28. Y'all keep reminding me of the songs of my youth!

[struggle4progress]

31. The Goldcoast Singers (1962)

[csziggy]

32. I'm listening to that version now!

The other one is what I heard when I was a teenager - but the Goldcoast Singers are much better!

[struggle4progress]

33. ' ...The song developed from listening to a radio station in Del Rio, Texas when I was about 12.

My best friend had a war surplus radio setup with a big antenna and on summer nights (TV had not yet arrived in Fresno, California) we spent a lot of time trying to bring in radio stations from as far away as possible. Thats how we discovered XERB (I think those were the call letters) broadcasting from a very powerful transmitter across the border in Mexico. The station belonged to a Del Rio dentist and religious fanatic and they sold the most outrageous stuff imaginable, all with magical healing properties. One particularly egregious divine exhorted listeners to "LAY YORE HAND ON THE RAAD-EE-o IF YOU FEEL THE HEAT YOU'LL BE HEEEAALED!" This was followed by an appeal for contributions and a list of crypto-religious items for sale, including a glow-in-the-dark Jesus with a suction cup base to attach to your dashboard. This item was guaranteed to protect the buyer from death on the highway. Another show included a hillbilly backup group that sang, among other ditties I've now mercifully forgotten, a song that included, "....something..something..something..leaning on the arms of Jesus, wrapped in the bosom of the Lord..." At the time it seemed so funny that we started changing it a bit and (with lots of gigglig) making up other words to the song, working in the suction-cup Jesus statue..and eventually ended up with a whole routine. So that's the true story of Plastic Jesus. Irreverent teenagers with no respect laughing themselves silly in a dusty California town on hot summer nights in the middle 1950's ...'

http://www.reverendcolin.com/PlasticJesus.html

[Brother Buzz]

34. The most moving version was Paul Newman's in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

[jmowreader]

36. This is the stanza which applies to her...

If I weave around at night
And the police think I'm tight
They'll never find my bottle, though they ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For His head comes off, you see
He's hollow, and I use Him for a flask

There's a reason you don't see plastic Jesuses anymore, and it's not because they're hollow. When the automakers started raking the windshields back to improve aerodynamics, it made the sun's rays focus on Plastic Jesus and turn Him into Plastic Buddha.

[Javaman]

14. maybe she was praying to hit a house. nt

[Major Nikon]

15. Jebus, show me a sign!

[hamsterjill]

17. Well that's a creative excuse!

Sounds like the cops didn't buy it, however, since they cited her for reckless driving.

Good grief. Scary.

[Bradical79]

18. Yet another situation in which prayer is useless

Guess we can add blind driving to the list :-P

[lindysalsagal]

20. Gawd made her do it.

Whoever said religion did no harm???

[hobbit709]

21. She should be evaluated to see if she has a brain

[FSogol]

22. Open/shut case of DWP. Throw the book (not that book) at her.

[Eleanors38]

23. She should pray for a head's-up display, or use a cell phone like everyone else.

[tallahasseedem]

24. This is beyond ridiculous.

She should have her license revoked.

[csziggy]

25. Florida Woman strikes again!

for my state.

[giftedgirl77]

27. I wonder if she was singing Jesus Take the Wheel at the time?

[rug]

30. If I was driving in Florida I'd keep my eyes closed too.

[tblue37]

35. She thought she was on autopilot, praying, "Jesus, take the wheel!" nt