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Elizabeth Smart Kidnapped by Steve Miller Fans

Posted Mar 14, 2003

Here's a strange quote by Wanda Barzee's son Derrick Thompson, buried in an article profiling the couple who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart.

Mark's brother, Derrick Thompson, suggested that the couple had started taking LSD about 10 years ago. "They said they weren't on drugs, but we think that was a lie," he told a television reporter. "We think that's how he could communicate with God. That and listen to the Steve Miller Band."
So, is Derrick saying that listening to Steve Miller lets you communicate with God, or that dropping acid is the only way to tolerate listening to Steve Miller?

8 Comments (Add Yours)

Mar 14, 2003
2:05 PM  
Ryan wrote:

I'm pretty sure either will get the job done!


Mar 16, 2003
9:52 AM  
Matt wrote:

Ambiguity is delightful.


Mar 18, 2003
11:25 AM  
Destiny wrote:

The abductor's kids have giving incredibly daming interviews. Sometimes I wonder if it's just dysfunctional family politics, played out in the press.

Someone else has the same theory -- but about Elizabeth Smart's family.


Mar 20, 2003
4:25 PM  
sugarkane wrote:

Nothing at all can make Steve Miller tolerable. But that does explain a lot about the kidnapping.


May 7, 2003
9:24 AM  
Plewis wrote:

Oh, no way. SMB is the best!


May 9, 2003
6:01 AM  
phoensnd> wrote:

I would go with the 2nd one! Steve Miller..geesh!


Sep 26, 2004
10:16 AM  
اہل سنت سنی اسلام wrote:

I don't think he really believed that the kidnapper "communicated with God". I think he means to say that the kidnapper's visions were actually drug induced hallucinations.


Sep 21, 2005
11:09 AM  
tina wrote:

I'm so happy she was found


 

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