Man says he was held at gunpoint for prayer session

[deadparrot]

ATHENS -- A woman and two roommates are accused of holding her brother at gunpoint as she prayed for his repentance, even firing a shot into the ceiling to keep his attention.

Randy Doss, 46, of Athens said he fled the house when his captors got distracted and later went to police, who were skeptical at first because his story was so bizarre. But Athens police said it checked out, including the bullet hole in the ceiling.

"We found where they patched the hole with caulk," said Sgt. Trevor Harris.

Police said the sister, Tammie Lee Doss, 43, Donna Leigh Bianca, 37, and Ronald David Richie, 45, who live at the Athens house, were charged with unlawful imprisonment, a misdemeanor. The two women also were charged with menacing, a misdemeanor. All were released on bond.

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060909/NEWS02/609090346/1009

[Selatius]

1. I remember hearing something like this in Iraq

A news reporter had developed strong links to the resistance in Iraq, and there was inter-play between the more secular ex-Ba'athists and the religious Al-Qaeda in Iraq types, and at one point, the group of resistance fighters he was with, who were ex-Ba'athists, insisted he kneel with them to pray because they were in Zarqawi's territory. He said, "But I'm not Muslim." They told him, "You will pray, or they will kill you." So he kneeled and prayed to God.

[zanne]

2. Unlawful imprisonment is only a misdemeanor?

I'm really surprised by that.

[sarcasmo]

3. More Religious Insanity. Don't let these kind of Religious whack jobs

brain wash you or your family.

[Ilsa]

4. Oh my God, this happened because they were arguing about

religion and he laughed at them. Geez, those women never learned their lessons in Sunday School about turning the other cheek.

[rpannier]

6. Ummmmm...

That's the New Testament you're referring too.
The American Taliban only care about the Old Testament.
As far as I can tell the only thing in the New Testament they pay any attention to, is that the story is about a guy named Jesus and he was killed in a horribly bloody way.

[tanyev]

5. Sir, she may be your sister, but she's a bonafide nutcase.

Time to give her a very wide berth.

[PassingFair]

7. Come to Taylor, Michigan...

http://www.parallelpac.org/murder.htm

>SNIP

THE MURDER OF LARRY HOOPER

By Arlene-Marie

December 20, 2005
(Edited for punctuation and clarity.)

On October 18, 2004, Arthur Shelton, a self described Christian and Eagle Scout, murdered his friend and roommate, Larry Hooper, because Hooper didn't believe in God.

On December 18, 2005, after many months of postponements, Arthur Shelton, with his defense attorney, Seymour Swartz, appeared at the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit, Michigan, before Judge Gregory D. Bill to face charges of murder in the first degree brought by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Christina Guiruis.

The trial began with the taped phone call Arthur Shelton placed to the Taylor police department in Taylor, Michigan, October 18, 2004, at precisely 12:44 AM. Shelton sounded calm and pridefull when he told the dispatcher he had just shot "the devil himself" with a revolver and a shotgun because "he (Hooper) didn't believe in God." Shelton told the dispatcher he was "still armed and ready to shoot again in case he moves. I want to make sure he's gone." When the dispatcher asked how many times he shot the victim Shelton replied, "hopefully enough."

Crazy is crazy.

Religion abets crazy.

Crazy!

:crazy:

[SoyCat]

8. Praise god and pass the ammunition--is that what it's become?