Ernie Ray Lester, Apostle to the Outlaws
February 20, 2010 By: almostgotit Category: Chigger Woode, Fame, Knoxville, be a freak, hillbilly, humorAnything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic. - Flannery O’Connor
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Well, as it turns out, Knoxville evangelist Ernie Ray Lester didn’t really fight in Vietnam.
His 23 war wounds? The single-handed killing of thousands of Vietnamese? Waiting for rescue as the sole survivor of a massive enemy ambush?
Not so much.
But he did work as a biker assassin. Really, he did.
And as for getting rammed at full speed by the Lincoln Continental? while collecting on a drug debt? which “knocked my eyes out of my head and my teeth out of my mouth” until they got sewed back in again by a biker doctor? That really happened, too. But not in Houston, as he’d said before.
“That was Atlanta,” he corrected the record on Friday.
Faced by a flood of evidence provided by attorneys, law enforcement officials, and other folk, Ernie Ray Lester has agreed to update his testimony a wee bit.
I think he should consider opening a sperm bank, as well.
February 20th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
23 war wounds? That sounds like a lot, if it had been true. Maybe they were all very small.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:15 am
According to the news article, the Brabsons made Lester’s mom cry. When did she think he was accumulating those Vietnam war wounds and sergeant stripes, on Tuesday evenings after band practice, maybe?
February 21st, 2010 at 9:49 am
Praise Jesus!! His works are Wondrous & Mysterious.
February 21st, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I live most of my year in SC, which is full of ignorant fools who serve in public office and mortify me with stunning regularity. About the only time I don’t envy the states others live in is when I visit my son in Nashville. TN is just chock full of dangerously, aggressively stupid lowbrows.
February 21st, 2010 at 8:42 pm
@Dennis: he was frequently attacked by people wielding tiny Vietnamese scimitars, I think.
@Lavenderbay: LOL
@SweetWilliam: Indeed.
@Nance: Almostgotit family excepted, of course.