Bubba Aten

There's a man in Mississippi who has recently started calling himself Bubba Aten. He claims to be the reincarnation of an ancient pharaoh.

Maybe he's crazy. Maybe.

Still, a lot of people have started worshiping him as the earthly embodiment of the sun, and he's recently had them start gathering large rocks, and shaping them into huge blocks. They're doing it. He says they're going to build a pyramid.

He began by nailing an old tire to a tree. Then he cut off the branches, and spray painted the tire gold. Later, he stuck thin branches into the tire and sprayed them gold too. Then he removed the roof and back wall of his barn, so that the tree could be seen from within it, and began to hold services. No one came for the first three weeks, then, suddenly, it was standing room only.

Somehow, Bubba hit a nerve. Something in the people of northern Mississippi seems to be screaming out for them to worship the sun. People have come down from Memphis, up from New Orleans, and from everywhere else along the Mississippi river. Bubba's calling it the Nile.

They've got the foundation laid. The blocks are starting to get smoothed out.

Once it looked like there might be a chance of these people actually getting it done, the other locals got nervous. The police raided the place several times, supposedly on drug related tips. They didn't find any. Then the DEA came in. They didn't find anything either. Or, they did, but not what they were looking for. They almost had Bubba on charges of owning exotic animals without a permit, but then it was pointed out that there was no fence keeping the zebras, ostriches, and crocodiles in place.

Something is up, and Egypt is back.

This doesn't work at all, but might if it were a whole lot longer.