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An amateur storm scientist staged a hoax involving his son drifting off in a balloon because he fears the world will end in 2012, a researcher has claimed.



Richard Heene is suspected of attempting a publicity stunt in Fort Collins, Colorado, in a bid to get his own reality TV show.

Robert Thomas, who recorded Heene's ideas, told investigators the "obsessed" father wanted fame to earn money for a bunker that would save him from an apocalypse.

"Heene believes the world is going to end in 2012," Mr Thomas' lawyer Linda Lee said.

"Because of that, he wanted to make money quickly, become rich enough to build a bunker or something underground, where he can be safe from the sun exploding."

Richard Heene, Sky News 20 Comments [11/3/2009 10:46:18 AM]
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#1048932


Lol, I say. What a clever old chap.

However, what does this have to do with CTSTDT?

11/3/2009 11:36:51 AM

#1048956
Nathan the Wise

Not thought that bunker idea through, I fear.

11/3/2009 11:49:58 AM

#1049151
aaa

I shall smugly mock you in 2013 for believing in stupid shi.

11/3/2009 12:58:20 PM

#1049158


How does a bunker help if the sun explodes? Really now, just go sit outside and get a front row seat to the best light show you will ever see.

11/3/2009 1:01:53 PM

#1049398
Kat

Richard Heene is an oddball of a guy already, so his Mayan 2012 doomsday belief is really not all that suprising.

11/3/2009 2:25:31 PM

#1049881
Doubting Thomas

I've often wondered why these end-of-the-world-is-coming-soon types think that building a bunker in their back yard is going to protect them from the end of the world. I would think that if the end of the world were happening soon, I'd buy a gun to end my life quickly & painlessly right before the cataclysm other than try to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

11/3/2009 7:19:21 PM

#1049968
Leliel

"The sun exploding."

He thinks an underground bunker is going to protect him from THE SUN EXPLODING.

Yes, because we all know the safety of non-airtight radiation-penetrable stone capsule IN SPACE.

11/3/2009 8:25:48 PM

#1050186
atrasicarius

Protip: A bunker wont save you from the sun exploding. Lrn2astronomy

11/4/2009 2:44:22 AM

#1050196


An amateur scientist

to build a bunker or something underground, where he can be safe from the sun exploding.

Sounds like he is ready to turn pro to me.

11/4/2009 3:10:28 AM

#1050521
Doubting Thomas

But DUH, it won't affect him if the sun explodes at night!

11/4/2009 9:37:51 AM

#1050691
Dr. Novakaine

"Because of that, he wanted to make money quickly, become rich enough to build a bunker or something underground, where he can be safe from the sun exploding."

Who wants to volunteer to tell him that a bunker isn't gonna do jack shit if the sun explodes?

11/4/2009 12:23:31 PM

#1050777


Bullshit. He must be trying this on to see if it will get him a lighter sentence on some insanity plea.

We already had him on two episodes of Wife Swap. He's a publicity whore, pure and simple, who's been trying to get his own reality show for years. His wife has even admitted in a formal statement that they did it all for publicity.

11/4/2009 2:27:30 PM

#1050802
Antichrist


11/4/2009 3:01:50 PM

#1050808


I have a book on my shelf that I got last year cause they were giving them out for free. It claims the world will end in 2008. Its great.

11/4/2009 3:09:27 PM

#1050856
Mister J

The whole 2012 thing really confuses me. Why should we at all believe the predictions of a civilisation who, despite their "powers" of foresight, were incapable of inventing/using the wheel for anything other than time-keeping until the Spanish arrived?

11/4/2009 4:19:56 PM

#1051318
wintermute

More to the point, why should be believe that the Mayans thought the world would end at the start of the next Baktun, when they clearly left behind writings referencing events they expected to happen thousands of years from now?

11/5/2009 12:38:04 PM

#1052295
sandchigger

Gah, I don't understand why people are making such a big deal about the Mayan calendar. You know, the calendar on my desk ends ever December but the world just keeps on chugging along!

11/6/2009 4:02:23 PM

#1052799
Comment Potato

You know, you'd still be dead if the sun exploded...

Dumbass.

11/7/2009 8:37:43 PM

#1112329
Leto

Really now? the sun? Christ I have to lay down.

2/8/2010 10:29:13 PM

#1181373


A bunker won't save you from a nova, chump. It'll only microwave you faster.

7/16/2010 1:43:23 PM
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