Happy April Fool’s Day! While this story isn’t about an April Fool’s joke it is about an attempted prank on the unsuspecting fools who followed doomsday nutbar Harold Camping. You might remember Camping. He is the ancient preacher who kept predicting the end of the world and then changing the date when it didn’t happen. From This Is True, the weekly round-up of wacky news I subscribe to, comes the story of a man who just wanted to illustrate how idiotic the whole thing was but unfortunately, it’s now causing him grief. Read on:
When the lay radio preacher Harold Camping decreed that the world would end on May 21, 2011, Bart Centre sensed an opportunity. An atheist, Centre announced his company, Eternal Earthbound Pets, would, for $135, provide “certified atheists” to take care of the left-behind pets of the faithful who were raptured. The retired New Hampshire man’s wacky response to Camping’s wacky Bible interpretation caught worldwide attention, with news coverage as far away as New Zealand. A joke? Well obviously, but Centre is getting the word out to the media it was a joke — really, really, really. Why? Because Centre has now been subpoenaed by his state’s Insurance Department, which demands copies of any applications he received for the service so they can see “whether he is engaged in the unlicensed business of [selling] insurance in New Hampshire.”
(Original story from The Washington Post. Copied from This is True, copyright Randy Cassingham, http://www.thisistrue.com/ )
Backfire! When it comes to potential tax dollars, no government has a sense of humour! I think his idea is great though. Not the pet thing but mocking the weak-minded in general!