After driving across country from Maryland with his family in the hope of being taken up to heaven in Rapture with a crowd of fellow believers, Keith Bauer admitted his disappointment Saturday as he stood in an empty parking lot outside the locked Family Radio headquarters in Oakland.
"I was hoping. I think heaven will be a lot better than this earth," the 36-year-old trucker told a knot of reporters who outnumbered visitors at the grimy hub of worldwide speculation about the world's end at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Although it wasn't yet 6 p.m. in Oakland, Bauer and other believers began having doubts about Camping's prophecy when the predicted earthquakes and devastation didn't happen in places like New Zealand, where the minister's predicted day of doom, destruction and religious Rapture had come and gone.
Somewhere, P.T. "there's a sucker born every minute" Barnum is having himself one HELLUVA laugh. Click here to read more of this amusing recount of today's event from the SFGate.
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