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everjaded

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Mental illness and religion don't mix well together. :(

Because suicide and murder aren't shitty enough on their own, she also targeted a random tanker truck and tried to ram it head on. Why not take out a random innocent with you as well, right?

What a terrifying ordeal for the trucker just minding his own business trying to make a living.

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The Gainesville Sun reports police arrested 48-year-old Melissa Gail Mack on Friday on three counts of attempted murder. The 4-year-old and 6-year-old boys escaped injuries and were turned over to the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families.

Officials said Mack told a friend that day that she was going to kill herself and her sons, explaining it was “God’s will.”

Police said that Mack first tried to crash head-on, but the tanker truck driver swerved to avoid crashing. Mack then made a U-turn and rammed into the tanker’s back, catching fire before being rescued.
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https://www.wfla.com/news/police-florida-mom-aims-at-tanker-tries-to-kill-self-sons/
 
...she was going to kill herself and her sons by crashing her car with everyone inside [because] it was “God’s will” ...
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The 2006 tanker truck, driven by Paul Dale Hackbarth, was carrying 330 gallons of gasoline.

When Hackbarth swerved to avoid a crash with Mack’s van on US-441, police say Mack, 48, doubled back with a U-turn, hit the gas pedal, and slammed into the tanker’s rear.

The impact set the van’s engine ablaze, shattered the front and back windows, and trapped Mack and her two children inside.

According to the police report, two witnesses were able to put out the fire and pull everyone out of the van.
The children were medically cleared by Shands Hospital — “neither sustained any visible injuries” the arrest report said.

The two boys were released to the Department of Children & Families.

“They both were very upset by the incident,” officers wrote on the report.

Mack was charged with three counts of premeditated attempted homicide in the first degree — one for each victim, her two boys and the truck driver. The charges are a capital felony, according to court records.

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Everyone laughs at her, but pretty much the same thing happened to Abraham and he is a symbol that faithfulness and obedience to his "God" should be greater than the love for one's own son, which I heard is a virtue in many religions.
 
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...she was going to kill herself and her sons by crashing her car with everyone inside [because] it was “God’s will” ...

Everyone laughs at her, but pretty much the same thing happened to Abraham and he is a symbol that faithfulness and obedience to his "God" should be greater than the love for one's own son, which I heard is a virtue in many religions.

But God didn't let Abraham actually go thru with it, he stopped him.
 
But God didn't let Abraham actually go thru with it, he stopped him.
Abraham was still willing to totally go through with killing his son to prove he feared his god more than he loved his son, he had no idea his god was just "testing" him. Also, there is evidence Isaac was killed, that the sacrifice did happen without angelic intervention, both in interpretation and in older "recently" discovered text.
(Times of Israel) (LiveScience)
 
A Gainesville woman who police said tried to kill herself by driving into a gasoline tanker with her two children in the car last year was found guilty of attempted murder in a non-jury trial Friday.

Melissa Mack, 49, was found guilty by Circuit Judge Mark Moseley of two counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder.

The two-day trial was conducted in a mix of video conferencing and in-person testimony, said Darry Lloyd, spokesman for the Eighth Circuit State Attorney’s Office, in a news release.

A pre-sentence investigation will be done. A sentencing date has not been set.

A longtime friend of Mack told police that they talked a few hours earlier, with Mack telling her she was going to kill herself and her sons. The friend told police Mack said “it was ‘God’s will’ and she was ‘afraid’ but nothing could be done to change the outcome,” according to the arrest report.
 
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Name:MACK, MELISSA G
Current Release Date: 08/06/2034

Current Prison Sentence History:​



Offense DateOffenseSentence DateCountyCase No.Prison Sentence Length
08/16/2019 1ST DG MUR/PREMED. OR ATT.(ATTEMPTED) 03/29/2022ALACHUA190255415Y 0M 0D
08/16/2019 1ST DG MUR/PREMED. OR ATT.(ATTEMPTED) 03/29/2022ALACHUA190255415Y 0M 0D
08/16/2019 2ND DEG.MURD,DANGEROUS ACT(ATTEMPTED) 03/29/2022ALACHUA190255415Y 0M 0D
 
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Name:MACK, MELISSA G
Current Release Date:08/06/2034

Current Prison Sentence History:​



Offense DateOffenseSentence DateCountyCase No.Prison Sentence Length
08/16/2019 1ST DG MUR/PREMED. OR ATT.(ATTEMPTED) 03/29/2022ALACHUA190255415Y 0M 0D
08/16/2019 1ST DG MUR/PREMED. OR ATT.(ATTEMPTED) 03/29/2022ALACHUA190255415Y 0M 0D
08/16/2019 2ND DEG.MURD,DANGEROUS ACT(ATTEMPTED) 03/29/2022ALACHUA190255415Y 0M 0D
Honestly, she looks better in lockup.
 
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