We're driving behind a pickup truck, pulling a trailer. There was a lock on the trailer latch. The lock was open, and dangerously dangling.
The trailer dude hits a bump. The padlock decides to leave it's happy home, attached to the trailer, and drop to the pavement. WHEW! At least it dropped to the pavement instead of coming up towards my.... Now, at this point in the story, I'd like to point out a new discovery in the laws of Physics: PADLOCKS BOUNCE. So, the padlock that HAD been on it's way to the pavement is NOW on it's way to my windshield. It drops again, Praise the LORD, but not back to the pavement, it drops to my hood. This, of course, leaves a new dent and scratch atop my previously dent-and-scratch-less car hood.
At least it didn't shatter our windshield at 74mph. Praise the LORD.
So, let's review. My poor Rainier, who doesn't deserve any of this treatment, has now been...
1.) slammed by a hit-and-run lunatic in the parking lot
2.) dented by a bounce-and-fly padlock on the I-40.
About a month into school down here at Henderson State, in Arkadelphia, AR, my car got hit. I was parked in the dorm parking lot, and someone backed into my car. Not too bad of damage really, but then they drove off. A hit and run. I didn't see it happen, and I have no idea who did it. I got an official police report, and submitted it to insurance. I would be able to finally get it fixed sometime this week, after 3 weeks of driving a scratched-up Rainier.
The damage wasn't too deep. My body shop Buddy said he can take the bumper off, re-paint it, and we'll be done. I can't wait to get my car back to perfect condition.
It happened less than 6hrs ago, so the news coverage is very sketchy right now. We do know a few concrete facts. At least student is dead. The campus is on full lockdown right now.
I just spoke with a friend of mine on-campus there at Conway. His information was also sketchy, because of the lockdown. He is stuck in his friends' room, and when I tried to open the door to return to his room, a police officer stopped him, asking him to close the door and remain in the room. Here's the basic rundown of what he was able to provide:
OK. My man was right next to the shooting. He was "inside the building" when he "heard BOOM BOOM BOOM" and when he looked outside, there was "A guy, dead, with blood everywhere". He watched the shooter go into "Arkansas Hall". My witness is farely certain that "this was a drive-by".
And, NEW RELATIVE INFORMATION.
He has the idea that "This was a deliberate action, but not a deliberate target". The "guy, dead," was in his Oral Communications class, however my witness did not know him personally. My witness did not believe it to be so much gang related, as in, gang targeting gang. He believed it to be more of a direct action, a statement, using an innocent individual as their microphone of broadcast.
Please pray for the campus of UCA. Classes are cancelled for Monday. By the time you will be reading this, a major news network will most likely have picked up the story, giving us a crystal-clear look into what exactly happened. For now, this is all we've got.
I've got two friends on campus there at UCA. One is in Ft. Smith tonight for a choir event, the other is our source.
please,
Pray for UCA.
eleven88
If you turn in your bibles to the very middle verse, the very center of God's word, it is Psalm 118:8. The verse states to not place our trust in man, but to wholly lean on Jesus, because man will fail us every time. I love it. We just modded the numbers "one eighteen, eight" to be "eleven eighty eight". Works pretty good. Anyway, I have no idea what we're doing playing shows now, but, czech out that sweet poster they made up for this one. Pretty slick. I'm the brown shirt 12-year-old in the back.
