Orange County, California is already strange, being the home of the Trinity Broadcasting Network and a huge sect of loyal fundies who have been on the edge of their seats, clutching bibles, watching “Left Behind” and waiting for The Rapture — which is scheduled for today — when lo and behold, Thursday morning regular television programming was interrupted and the end of the world was announced. Praise the Lord. Orange County Register:
Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world.
Stacy Laflamme of Lake Forest said she was watching the HGTV channel via Cox Communications about 11:05 a.m. when suddenly an emergency alert flashed across her screen followed by a voice.
“Realize this, extremely violent times will come,” a man’s voice boomed, according to a video of the alert.
“It almost sounded like Hitler talking,” she said. “It sounded like a radio broadcast coming through the television.”
The video was the standard Emergency Broadcast System logo but the audio was a preacher ranting about the end times. Needless to say, both cable companies involved got numerous calls and social media lit up. A spokesman said, “We have confirmed we were fed an incorrect audio feed.”And of course the fundies are wondering about the prophetic aspect:
It hasn’t been determined if the audio in the alert is related to a prophecy by David Meade, a self-described “specialist in research and investigations” who believes catastrophic events will occur Saturday.
He predicts a constellation – a sign prophesied in the Book of Revelation – will reveal itself in the skies over Jerusalem, signaling the beginning of the end of the world, according to the Washington Post.
NASA says that if Nibiru existed it would be visible to the naked eye by now, and they would have been able to track it for ten years already, but who listens to them?