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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :

Apparantly this happened last night. I was watching, and I didn't notice a thing. Heh.

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The devotional was just getting underway. President Hinckley was at the microphone. Suddenly a woman in red raced toward the podium. She's visible in the lower left portion of the TV screen, yelling audibly.

" (Unintelligible yelling)..."False prophet".... "Joseph Smith was my great great"...(unintelligible)

President Gordon B. Hinckley: "My beloved brothers and sisters."

Carlos Caceres, Witness: "Prophet just kept on speaking as if nothing had happened. Didn't even stutter"

Nate Graham, Witnesss: "She just ran down there and screaming 'I’m a descendent of Joseph Smith!' that's about all I caught."

Carlos Caceres, Witness: "I think I heard something about false prophet in there. But I was too caught up in watching security grab her."

Sgt. Gary Clark, Army National Guard: "And the security stopped her and escorted her off politely and quietly and professionally."

Later church security handed 44-year-old Carolyn Smith off to police.

Carolyn Smith: "Peace. Love. Happiness. Joy. Let's all join together in love."

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

I guess now would not be a good time to guess some amusing things she might have been saying that rhyme with 'false prophet'? [Razz]

Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :

Apparently she had some old documents she'd bought on Ebay that she wanted to show President Hinckley.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Yikes!

I'm glad it wasn't more serious than just screaming.

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

Cool!

Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :

No, Stormy, I think now would be a perfect time for that.

(Mostly I'm saying that because I can't think of any and I can't help my curiosity.)

Posted by divaesefani (Member # 3763) on :

I totally saw that last night! After the music ended, before it cut to Pres Hinckley at the very beginning, it happened down on the bottom left of the screen. My husband noticed it first. We ran it back and watched it again to make sure that's what was really going on. I almost posted last night to see if anyone else noticed.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

*waving Milk Duds*

"These are false Toffets! Please pray that America comes to its sense--"*rushed by guards*.

Um, I'll keep on thinking about it.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Walls, soffits? Perhaps she was admiring the carpentry in the room?

Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :

*goes for the obvious one*

False profits? Someone gave her counterfeited money?

Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :

[ROFL]

Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :

Waltz, prophets? Maybe she wanted the quorum of the twelve to start dancing.

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

Wow, I was watching it on a video stream from my laptop--and I remember hearing some "bump bump" sound and thinking it was something to do with the podium lowering or something and that they needed to work on the sound! I wonder if I was hearing some of the background noise?

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

Harlan Ellison tells a story about how when he was giving a talk, a woman in the audience stood up, denounced him as the Anti-Christ, set her hair on fire, and ran out of the auditorium.

(Probably NOT the same woman...)

Posted by tern (Member # 7429) on :

At least she wasn't trying to shake his hand...

Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :

Hmm. Just looked it up in the dictionary, and Anti-Christ isn't the usual spelling. It's antichrist, anti-christ, or Antichrist... but NOT Anti-Christ.

(Hey, it's not a word that I write very often...)

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Perhaps she was shilling for a personal injury law firm: "Falls! Profits!"

Posted by Zarex (Member # 8504) on :

Perhaps she was an astronomer, "Stars! Comets!"

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Zarex:
Perhaps she was an astronomer, "Stars! Comets!"

And the nomination for entry that rhymes the least with "False Prophets", goes to Zarex, who managed to rhyme neither "False" or "Prophets".
[Hat]

Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :

Maybe she was shouting "Halt profits!" because she was worried she was too late to make her donation?

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Harlan Ellison tells a story about how when he was giving a talk, a woman in the audience stood up, denounced him as the Anti-Christ, set her hair on fire, and ran out of the auditorium.

Awesome. I hope somebody does that for me one day. Maybe if I ever make it to one o' them there Hatrack gatherings. [Big Grin]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

I think it was a spoonerism. She meant to say "Paul's Faucets!" This used to be a common ejaculation back in Roman times -- an obvious reference to the practice of baptising gentiles.