May 18th, 2011
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Author: I'm riding shotgun through Times Square in a flatbed truck draped with placards, advertising the impending End of Days: HAVE YOU HEARD THE AWESOME NEWS?
 DAY TRIPPERS More than 100 evangelical Christians congregated in New York this past weekend to spread word of the coming Rapture. The caravan arrives in Boston this week to await the End. |
NEW YORK CITY — I'm riding shotgun through Times Square in a flatbed truck draped with placards, advertising the impending End of Days: HAVE YOU HEARD THE AWESOME NEWS?
Behind the wheel is Dan, a Wilford Brimley doppelganger in his early sixties, who recently shuttered his New Jersey construction business to ride the Rapture route full-time. Dan used to enjoy cognac, cigars, and prostitutes. But not anymore. He's bracing to ascend into Heaven this Saturday. As we idle at a red light, Dan declines a call on his flip phone.
"It's just someone who wants to know about a dump truck I was selling," he tells me. "But now, there's really no point anymore."
Dan seems like a genuinely nice guy. His wife and son cut off contact with him weeks ago, when he began pestering them about earthquakes that will shake the planet from May 21 until the Earth implodes five months later. Dan first heard this alarming message while driving in this very truck, three months ago. He says his tuner became stuck on New York's Family Radio frequency, where the Oakland, CA–based evangelical network's 89-year-old founder, Harold Camping, was declaring May 21 to be Judgment Day.
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