Reuters
Harold Camping follower spent $140K of his savings on doomsday ads
Retired Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker Robert Fitzpatrick, 60, said he spent more than $140,000 of his savings on subway posters and bus shelter advertisements warning of the May 21 Judgment Day.
“God’s people are commanded to sound the warning, to sound the trumpet so to speak so people know,” Fitzpatrick said of his advertising blitz.
Fitzpatrick said Camping led him to believe Judgment Day would be May 21, but added that he disagreed with the broadcaster’s prediction it would begin in Asia.
In Fitzpatrick’s view, from his reading of the Bible, Judgment Day would begin around 6 p.m. Eastern Time. He said on Saturday that he still had no doubts Judgment Day would come this day.
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If only he had spent more / Krugman
tetriskid on May 21, 2011 at 5:23 PM
In about 30 minutes, he might be a candidate for suicide watch. Hope he doesn’t do anything else drastic.
FontanaConservative on May 21, 2011 at 5:23 PM
*facepalm*
upinak on May 21, 2011 at 5:23 PM
Um…it’s already May 22 in Australia.
Sorry, bud.
You just pissed 140k down the drain for this nonsense.
The most expensive less you’ll ever learn, for sure.
Good Lt on May 21, 2011 at 5:24 PM
That’s just a drop in the bucket compared to the many trillions of dollars (inflation adjusted, of course) that have been spent in the past 2,000 years by dupes awaiting Jesus’ return. I don’t see why he should have become any more of a laughingstock than any other Christian.
hicsuget on May 21, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Well, there is some finite probability that the matter on Earth will quantum mechanically tunnel into a state in which life as we know it ceases to exist. By the many-worlds interpretation, it must have happened to someone.
Count to 10 on May 21, 2011 at 5:27 PM
Well, I doubt many individuals invested as much as he did into it.
Count to 10 on May 21, 2011 at 5:28 PM
It’s been May 22nd for hours and I’m still here. Not sure if that’s good or bad.
DarkCurrent on May 21, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Ah, yes. It will start in American Eastern Standard Time.
In God’s country.
O_o
Good Lt on May 21, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Winner!
mankai on May 21, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Any other Christian? I haven’t spent any money advertising for something the Bible explicitly says that no one knows the time of. Neither has any other Christian that I know of. This guy is wrong, but he’s not ridiculous for trying to inform people of Christ’s second coming. It will happen.
Living4Him5534 on May 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Tomorrow he’ll either:
a) sue the pants off Harold Camping
b) go crying to his congressman for a bailout
CurtZHP on May 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM
When do these stories officially become a hoax? I really doubt that they spent $100 million in their ad campaign.
El_Terrible on May 21, 2011 at 5:38 PM
These people should have followed the Al Gore model… you’re supposed to get rich from doomsday scenarios.
mankai on May 21, 2011 at 5:38 PM
That’s about all I can think of to respond to this.
Maybe add in a *shakes head slowly back and forth*
JetBoy on May 21, 2011 at 5:44 PM
Or maybe…
Beware of false profits.
JetBoy on May 21, 2011 at 5:47 PM
To do:
-predict end of the world
-start billboard company
RightOFLeft on May 21, 2011 at 5:53 PM
His money, he could do what he wanted with it.
How much did Soros spend to foist 0bama on America? A lot more than this guy spent, for a more evil result.
Rebar on May 21, 2011 at 5:53 PM
What you said made no sense. I donate money to my church, it goes to homeless shelters, children’s charities and church upkeep which since it houses many community functions.
That money isn’t wasted, and it isn’t going to any ads about the end of the world.
Don’t worry about my money atheist, not as long as it comes out of MY bank account and not yours. You spend yours on busts of Richard Dawkins, I’ll donate mine as I please.
Daemonocracy on May 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM
Soros got something for his money.
This guy just got stiffed.
Good Lt on May 21, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Local FOX broadcast just led with “as far as we can tell, it’s 6pm and there is no sign of the apocalypse.”
LOL LOL LOL
Good Lt on May 21, 2011 at 6:06 PM
a fool and his money……(posted @ 6:06pm est)
NY Conservative on May 21, 2011 at 6:06 PM
I just woke up from a nap. Did I miss the rapture?
BDavis on May 21, 2011 at 6:07 PM
still here @ 6:11, maybe 0bama`s schedulers are in charge of the timing
NY Conservative on May 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM
NY Conserative,
Thread winnah.
Mike Honcho on May 21, 2011 at 6:23 PM
Soros got something for his money and we all got stiffed.
trigon on May 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM
This is the monetary version of the Darwin award.
Ironic that it should happen to those professing to be Christians.
Splashman on May 21, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Don’t be silly. That’s what liberals do. Instead, Camping will explain how he forgot to carry the 1 when he did the calculation, so the new, revised end of the world will actually be May 21, 2021. “My bad!” All his brain-dead followers will drink the Kool-Aid, and immediately begin saving up to buy more subway posters and bus shelter advertisements.
Splashman on May 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Shame that Camping and apparently his followers were unable to read the Bible with any understanding. What part of “No one knows the day or the hour …” and “It will come like a thief in the night” did they not understand. The imperative is to live each day like it may be the last day (“labor while it is day”) and to spread the Gospel to all the world, not to try to guess that He will come on such and such a day. As a matter of fact, Christ warns about false preachers saying, “some will say ‘there He is’, do not go …”
AZfederalist on May 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Uh huh. Wrong, but not ridiculous? For making an explicit prediction when his Bible tells him no explicit prediction is possible, thus bringing discredit and world-wide ridicule to himself, his brain-dead followers, and Christianity in general? What more would he have to do to earn the word “ridiculous”, in your estimation?
You’ll bring ridicule upon yourself if you attempt to defend the indefensible.
Splashman on May 21, 2011 at 6:52 PM
Actually, in his case, he was correct. Now that his life savings is gone, his world will come to what I would think is an abrupt end (as he knows it).
Tim Zank on May 21, 2011 at 7:13 PM
I’m more offended by the fact that a former transit worker is retired at age 60 with $140,000 cash to spend.
Hollowpoint on May 21, 2011 at 7:45 PM
Way to go you complete moron.
WisCon on May 21, 2011 at 8:10 PM