Keith and Kellie Bauer spent the week touring the country in anticipation of the rapture that Oakland preacher Harold Camping predicted would occur Saturday. Their son Joshua Bauer, 3, and relative Thomas Puff, 4, peer into the closed headquarters of Camping's Family Radio in Oakland. (Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times / May 22, 2011)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rapture-20110522,0,5118540.storyIn the end, rapture believers weren't going anywhere
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Others had risked a lot more on Camping's prediction, quitting jobs, abandoning relationships, volunteering months of their time to spread the word. Matt Tuter, the longtime producer of Camping's radio and television call-in show, said Saturday that he expected there to be "a lot of angry people" as reality proved Camping wrong.
Tuter said Family Radio's AM station in Sacramento had been "severely vandalized" Friday night or Saturday morning, with air conditioning units yanked out and $25,000 worth of copper stripped from the equipment. He thinks it must have been an angry listener. He was off Saturday but planned to drive past the headquarters "and make sure nothing's burning."Camping himself, who has given innumerable interviews in recent months, was staying out of sight Saturday. No one answered the door at his Alameda home, though neighbors said he was there.
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First I've heard of any retaliation....:shrug: