Comedy | May 16, 2011 | 61 comments

World will end on May 21 says man who's putting money where mouth is

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Robert Fitzpatrick is so convinced the end is near he's betting his life savings on it. The retired MTA employee has pumped $140,000 into a NYC Transit ad campaign to warn everyone the world will end next Saturday.

Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever - Judgment Day: May 21," the ad declares above a placid picture of night over Jerusalem with a clock that's about to strike midnight.

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61 comments // World will end on May 21 says man who's putting money where mouth is

  • letsliveinpeace
  • linuxsapien
  • GENERALNATTY
  • celibate_narcissist
    • 0
      celibate_narcissist  
    • Oh shit. I'll bring the beer. Who's got the popcorn & other tasty snacks? We're gonna watch this shit hit the fan and see a very unhappy poor looney on the twenty-second. :)

    • 1 year ago
  • thepatient
  • robbie2622
  • harleyblueswoman
  • ReMarker
  • littlwarrior
    • +3
      littlwarrior  
    • The sky is falling, the sky is falling, how stupid will he feel when its still up there eh? And hey maybe he guessed right, maybe the world as we know will fall apart May 21st, but then again I'm ok with that, I dont like a lot of people in it anyways. If your cool though make sure you have a plan fro survival. If your a republican please leave it all up to the good lord, or just jump in front of a bus, either way I'm happy. If there is an apocalypse this weekend the only member of the GOP that should survive this puppy is my mother.

    • 1 year ago
  • tlbuffin
  • Wyley_Wombat
  • tlbuffin
  • robbie2622
  • coxian_armada
  • Wyley_Wombat
    • 0
      Wyley_Wombat  
    • coxian_armada:

      I was making the point that christian zealot televangelists tend to blame things on people that are not like them. On the subject of holidays, when the church of Rome was trying to spread their control, they adopted the Pagan holidays to try to convince the folk living in the country side that their dogma was legitimate. They referred to the country farmers as "People of the earth" or "heathens".

    • 1 year ago
  • coxian_armada
  • onemalefla
  • coxian_armada
  • Slingingstones
    • +2
      Slingingstones  
    • I've always wondered whatever happened to Mr. Peabody and his way back machine...and his boy, Sherman aka Robert Fitzpatrick.

      ...so much for the theory that Death will come like a thief in the night. Where's the surprise in all this advertising?

    • 1 year ago
  • UrbanGypsy
  • onemalefla
  • UrbanGypsy
  • thrice1187
  • Wyley_Wombat
    • +4
      Wyley_Wombat  
    • thrice1187:

      Actually he is probably already writing his "Oops I miscalculated" press release and has a brand new date based on some other section of the Buy-Bull. Religious fanatics are all the same, they just come in different flavours.

    • 1 year ago
  • thrice1187
  • chrisntom
    • +1
      chrisntom  
    • I wasn't planning for May...I thought the world would end 12/21/12
      What is going to happen when he is found to be wrong?

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • CalgarC
  • totally_dilapidated
  • moodyblue
    • +5
      moodyblue  
    • Why warn people? Is there something that can be done to stop it?

      Never mind, I know why they want to warn people..It's so all those "religious" people can hurry up and ask for forgiveness. They don't want to be caught unaware and not have to time to say oh shit! Im fixing to die... im sorry for my sins! let me in heaven please.

    • 1 year ago
  • andyjb45
  • noxidereus
    • +4
      noxidereus  
    • "People who have an understanding [of end times] have an obligation to warn everyone."

      When the apocalypse doesn't come, the people who thought they had an understanding of end times have an obligation to warn the next generation of doomsayers to shut the hell up.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • totally_dilapidated
  • Kayshadog
    • +4
      Kayshadog  
    • My favorite "Bill Maher" said "if on May 22nd they are still here, they must put up billboards saying "Jesus stood me up for the last time . . I am so through with this guy!"

      Some smart thinking Atheists suggest paying them $100 for the deed to their homes as well as all other assets to be turned over at midnight.

      Another group actually advertised to take care of their pets for $3000 since pets will likely be left behind. Hey, if you believe in this then put your money on the table!

    • 1 year ago
  • Arizona_Huey
    • +1
      Arizona_Huey  
    • If he has any money left - I have an island made of nothing but steel that will survive the end of the world - I'll let it go for only $250,000.00!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • charliesommers
  • Varex_Sythe
  • Bazinga
    • +3
      Bazinga  
    • I actually feel really bad for him. A retired old man with no money to live off of because he's been tricked into believing the world is ending. I'd hope that Camping will have the decency to give him $140,000 on May 22nd when the world is still here, but I doubt that'll happen.

    • 1 year ago
  • grammabet
    • 0
      grammabet  
    • It's common knowledge, it's going to be the end of this world for many,many people on that day.It happens everyday that way,world wide.Look at Haiti,China, Katrina.Why didn't he predict that.Guess he means well.We have no control over it when and if it happens.Don't worry, be happy as the crooked politicians allow.

    • 1 year ago
  • JustZ
  • Mark701
  • Nick19
  • jam60jam
    • +1
      jam60jam  
    • a thief does not announce hes coming oh the people you could have helped with that money i would be right on his doorstep with my camera on the morning of the 22nd

    • 1 year ago
  • Earl_Dixon
  • damush
    • +1
      damush  
    • 12/29/1999 - 5/5/2000 - 5/21/2011 - 12/11/2012. If it's in the numbers, then to the IRS - I'm glad I won't go through any future audits cause the world is ending! OH RAPUTRE!

    • 1 year ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • coxian_armada
    • 0
      coxian_armada  
    • On what fantasy basis do people make this prediction, why this obsession of being judged? Matthew 7:1 “Judge not, that you be not judged.", so what is this guys problem??

    • 1 year ago
  • VaLady
  • August_K
    • 0
      August_K  
    • "Fitzpatrick's millenial mania began after he retired in 2006 and began listening to California evangelist Harold Camping's "end of days" predictions.

      Using head-spinning numerological calculations, Camping has determined that the world will end on Saturday, May 21. He's used similar biblical math to pinpoint when Abraham was circumcised (2068 B.C.) and when earth was created (11,083 B.C.).

      Camping has predicted the end of world once before - on Sept. 6, 1994. When the sun rose on Sept. 7, Camping admitted he might have had that one wrong.

      Still, Fitzpatrick remains convinced the beginning of the end is coming next week."

    • 1 year ago
  • charliesommers
    • +2
      charliesommers  
    • August_K:

      I am not a Christian but I have read the Bible and know that Camping is basing his prediction in a way that the Bible itself says is impossible;

      Mark 13:32, King James version, "But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."

      What a quack!

    • 1 year ago
  • GodsSilentDaydreamer
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      GodsSilentDaydreamer  
    • In the Bible states that No man not even the son of God himself knows when the end of time will finally occur, it even states that there are going to be many who claim the end is coming with many dates. No one knows.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • coxian_armada
  • Bazinga
  • coxian_armada
  • MDBard
  • ChrisTerry
    • +4
      ChrisTerry  
    • EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING!!!! EdJoyProductions. Even if he is right it is still a waste of money. If i was this guy and i thought the world was going to end in like a week. I would have spent that money on the Craziest party week all the way to the end. Or the best prostitute that 140,000 dollars can buy.(just joking about the prostitute)

    • 1 year ago
  • timetide
    • +3
      timetide  
    • dear god, watch thats there's a mild earthquake somewhere on Earth (which occurs everyday) and they will use it as justification

    • 1 year ago
  • EdJoyProductions
  • CalgarC
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