The end of this world !

If you are still here and reading this - then you are definitely not one of the " good guys " !

American Tele-Evangelist Harald Campion ( 89 )  has been telling his followers that " the Rapture " will take place yesterday - on May 21.   Planet earth will be rocked by a huge earthquake convulsion and " the chosen people " will be elevated to Heaven.

Things will supposedly not be too good for those left behind.   They will have to live with the chaos and wreckage until October 21 - when this poor old planet will final disappear in a puff of smoke.   The world - as we have known it - will have ended !

Today - there will be winners and losers.  A lot of people sold off all their worldly possessions on the basis that they would no longer be needed - and the opportunists grabbed them for very low prices.  No doubt Harald Campion will have an explanation for the failure of his prediction - because this is not the first time such a similar thing has happened.

One interesting sidelight to this fiasco is the fate of all the dogs and cats that belonged to those who would supposedly disappear in " the Rapture ".    It seems that dogs and cats are not welcome in Heaven and many of their owners paid boarding kennels big money to keep them in luxury until the end of the world on October 21.

A bit embarrassing to turn up at the kennels this morning and ask to retrieve Fido and Moggie - and maybe to ask for a refund of rent paid in advance.

Oh well !    Maybe Campion got his dates mixed up.   Maybe the " Rapture " is really October 21 and the end of the world is May 21 - next year.     It would be worth asking if the betting agencies are offering decent odds on either date.