Florida woman shoots interstate drivers, says God told her to because of the eclipse, police say

So today I drove five hours to see the eclipse, had a tire blow out, didn't see the eclipse because of thick clouds, and got stuck in traffic for hours on the way back. (I'm still not home.) But at least I haven't been shot by maniac, yet.

God told her to because of the eclipse

When the Creator tells you to do something like that, you want to get it in writing just in case the judge has a different theological take on the matter.

If you liked "Florida Man", you're gonna love "Florida Woman"

Thank God we have laws to keep guns out of the hands of obvious crazy people.

There is no mental health treatment in our society.

Georgia woman. It was a Georgia woman that crossed into Florida. WTH is up with that headline?

It's so weird that they freaked out this much over just this Eclipse. There was an eclipse last year and I didn't hear a peep from these people.

Not a Florida woman. Georgia woman. Georgia is exporting their crazy to Florida.

If God told her to then it should be legal.

If you go on YouTube and look up videos of the eclipse yesterday, you'll see a ton of videos about why the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world. Just pure and total insanity or people taking advantage of that insanity. You might be surprised but you probably won't be because you know in your heart that we're just that far gone now.

Organised religion is a cancer of the mind.

Those of us who grew up without it literally can’t imagine scenarios like this, though I’ve heard disturbing things from people who seem otherwise sane that make me understand what drives some to do these things. When you’ve internalised fables of good vs evil and that’s how you define reality, it’s a small step to think you have to commit atrocities to save the innocent. You don’t have to have a very divergent mentality to convince yourself of this.

We will all be better off when the vast majority of people give up these fables and begin to live in the real world.

Take a society with no mental health assistance and then pepper it with tons of religious fervor. It's a recipe for disaster.

I'm in the middle of the first episode of the third season of the podcast Long Shadow. This one is going to be about mass shootings. Looks like they haven't added it to their website yet, but both of the prior seasons were excellent so I expect this to be more of the same.

https://longlead.com/article/long-shadow

I mean … if I wasn’t already avoiding that shithole state …

In 1976, Larry Cohen made a film called "God Told Me To," where random people commit murders in the name of God. The movie explains it as (spoiler alert) the influence of aliens, but apparently such a thing doesn't actually need science fiction explanations.

Edit: Also, we live in what was the path of totality in Indiana and watched the eclipse in a park. When we came home, my daughter saw a bunch of people in a church parking lot doing some post-eclipse bowing down in prayer (I missed it) and she thought it was hilarious.

I wasn't paying attention was some Alex Jones type telling people to do this last week?

Come on, what do I say here? Lock her in jail? Push her off the cliff?? Craziness should not be supported unless it’s in a tiny padded cell under constant supervision. Too many people in this country claim insanity and if she really is, let her watch Boomerang all day; if she’s not test her boomerang-ability

It's because she didn't wear the special glasses. Or mental illness; probably the latter.

There's never people who God tells them to go cook really good food for the poor. Or maybe we just don't hear about them because that's not really news worthy.

I can't believe this isn't the onion

The ONLY way to Prevent this is if someone SHOOTS Her First!

Kamoulox

"Troopers stopped the woman after she drove for about 16 miles (26 kilometers) and found her with an AR-15 rifle and 9mm handgun."

What was she thinking? You need two hands to shoot an AR-15...

The only thing crazier than Florida Man...

She votes right wing btw

Classic cause of Moon Madness.

That Hod guy sure tells a lot of people stupid things.