I know why Harold Camping wasn't available for comment in California - or anywhere in the US on Saturday 21st May. Because he was actually in Tokyo - Akihabara to be exact - buying his copy of this:
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"The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya", the newest light novel. It features a new character (featured on the cover), Sasaki.
Which, coincidentally, went on sale on Saturday 21st May 2011.
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Well, he's gotta have something to do, now he's going to be out of the public eye. For ever.
Harold Camping = Bernard Madoff
All those Family Radio millions. You do the maths, Campers.
'A sucker is born every minute'
-PT Barnum
@Selkie
"Radio silence from Camping. Apparently he's hiding at home and the office is closed."
I'll be tuning into 6.91 MHz shortwave tomorrow, at 10 PM (BST). If his "Open Forum" programme doesn't air, then that'll be the confirming clincher.
--EDIT--
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/uk-apocalypse-prediction-idUKTRE74J72S20110521
"The headquarters, which appears to be normally closed on Saturday, was also shuttered on Friday."
'The blinds were drawn, but the furniture was real'
-Spike Milligan, 'Pontius Kak'
"Camping, whose deep sonorous voice is frequently heard on his radio network expounding the Bible, could not be reached for comment on Saturday."
See above.
"The shades were drawn and no one answered the door at his house in Alameda, California."
What a surprise. [/sarcasm]
(emphasis added):
'Sheila Doan, 65, who has lived next door to Camping since 1971, said he is a good neighbour and that she is concerned about Camping and his wife, because of the attention his pronouncement has received.'
So are we. That he's going to have to spend an extremely long time in there, to avoid being pointed and laughed at a la Nelson Muntz.
...still, he can follow the example of Burma's Aum San Su Kyi. Or bin Lardarse. >:D
"I'm concerned for them, that somebody would possibly do something stupid, you just don't know in this world what's going to happen," she said.'
Well, it's his own fucking fault for making a complete twat of himself for saying what he did. As long as nobody else is involved, he can earn himself that Darwin Award for all I care, a la Jim Jones & co. Like I say - he's got no bugger else to blame but himself. You don't see the likes of Richard Dawkins acting, thinking or speaking like you do eh, Harry-boy? Q.E.D.
"Atheists in different parts of the country were planning celebrations and get-togethers to mark the failure of Camping's May 21 prediction to come true."
I was listening do Dotun Adebayo's programme on BBC Radio 5 last night (1-5 AM, Friday-Monday), and on this day (from 1.30-2.30) he communicates with correspondents in New York about happenings there. Said NYers reported that there has been quite a few 'Rapture Parties' going on the 21st in the Big Apple, and that the only things that went skyward were the profits of the bar owners on that day.
