Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A quickie

Rejected panhandler beats Gary woman with crucifix

Associated Press Report

GARY — Police say a Gary panhandler pulled out a crucifix and beat a woman passing by after she said she had no money to give.The passerby, 50-year-old Pamela Johnson of Gary, was treated at a hospital for a deep cut on her forehead.

Gary Police Cmdr. Richard Allen says Johnson told officers that she was walking to her car about 10 p.m. Saturday when an unidentified woman approached her. When Johnson told the panhandler she had no money, the woman produced a foot-long crucifix made of stone and started hitting Johnson over the head.

So far, no one has been arrested and the weapon has not been recovered.

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First of all, I'm glad the woman is okay and wasn't seriously injured.

But all I could think of when I read this story was this:

The Power of Christ compels you! [whack]
The Power of Christ compels you! [whack]

A gold star to whoever knows what movie that is from. :)

19 comments:

  1. The Exorcist, but I see someone else already wrote it :-). One thing I found very interesting about the movie, my Dad told me Friedkin(my Dad always admired his work) hired a real Irish Catholic priest as the "other" priest in the film. Well, the guy wasn't an actor & when he couldn't get the scene as intense or act as scared as Friedkin wanted he slapped the priest across the face as hard as the could & then shot the scene.It worked, the priest looked terrorized. ~Mary

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  2. ... being in Detroit, I couldn't imagine a panhandler being that brave ...

    Don't really have a good take with for this story. If I have some change handy, I will flip it out. Maybe this was one particular time, where having to swallow his dignity came back up.

    Makes me wonder the tone in which she replied, if she shot him a look, a brief one, that made it more than he could bear. No one wants to be out there panhandling. Never saw that as a course selection in high school, and maybe at that moment, it was too much for him.

    Jus' sayin' ...

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  3. That's terrible! I'm glad she wasn't hurt worse....

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  4. The scripting of the exorcism itself in the movie came party direct from the Bible, using the directives there. William Blakey sought accuracy in writing his book "The Exorcist" and the script-writers wanted to keep to that pattern I believe, hence they took the dialogue right from the Bible. I'm not sure but that seems more frightening to me than the movie.

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  5. I read too fast...because I thought you had written 'Police say a Gay panhandler pulled out a crucifix and beat a woman ' I was thinking 'How did they know he was gay? why would a gay man be beating somebody with a crucifix?' (what is wrong with me....LOL...)

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  6. Oh yes the Exorcist. That is crazy about that lady.

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  7. Glad it wean't me...really strange??? Been a long day, so going to shut down. Take care. Snow in forcast and it was in the 60's today. Bummer

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  8. Wow, desperation personified?

    I love seeing all the things you come up with!

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  9. That's just awful! When I worked, I used to have to travel to Gary. It was such a depressing place, and I always felt uncomfortable there. Sad.

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  10. I knew it was The Exorcist too, but I'm WAY too late for a gold star!

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  11. Looks like everyone gets a gold star, except the crazed crucifix yeilding panhandler. Thats just assinine

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  12. I encountered all sorts of whacked out panhandlers when I worked in the city, but I have to say nothing like Crucifix Carrie.

    I still can't eat peas because of The Exorcist, although the Richard Pryor sketch on SNL did a lot to make it less terrifying (THE BED...IS ON...MY FOOT!)-of course, it probably wasn't an appropriate movie for an eight year old.

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  13. the Exorcist...but I cheated; i read everyone else's comments and took it from there.

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  14. Well, since you have so many comments, probably no one is going to read this one, so I'll say I would never beat an Indiana woman with a crucifix. I might use a bible, but that's it.

    (Name withheld by request.)


    DB

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  15. The Exorcist, how ghastly!!! I think this sort of things can only happen in the US! Very sorry for the lady but it is somewhat hilarious...Ciao. Antonella

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  16. that one was easy.
    today in the Cincinnati Enquirer was a story about a morgue worker going to prison...why? well, he had an uncontrollable urge to have sex with dead murder victims and in one case they proved the semen IN the dead woman did not belong to the RAPIST who had murdered her but to the morgue worker. He had worked at the Cincy morgue for over 16 yrs.
    The journalist had a few snippets of wry humor in the article that probably went over many people's heads but i LOL, only at her words, not the action of the pervert morgue worker dude.

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  17. Oh Lordy thats so funny! But sad for the woman. LOL
    And the movie was The original Exorcist...the best one!
    Connie

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