What sort of thing could we reasonably expect to be left behind by those raptured away? In this thread about planning a Post-Rapture Party, the following things are listed as looting targets:
the local Kroger’s
good Scotch
weapons
xboxes, and
Aston Martins.
When I suggested that people who drive Aston Martins are unlikely to be raptured, TruCelt said that you’d be more likely to find abandoned Lincolns. Which makes me wonder what the raptured are likely to leave behind. I have a mental image, for some reason, of doilies and lots of Left Behind books. I can also picture a lot of family photos, bibles, prayer guides, etc.
I can’t really picture much that would be lootable, although in the thread above, Mr. Excellent is willing to expand looting to include dazed and traumatized left-behinds. Still, I want to stick with the truly raptured. I’d feel bad about looting the dazed.
The Saved are supposed to avoid building up riches on earth. So I’m guessing that the owners of Kroger’s will be around. Some local stores might be short-handed, but they’re not going to be abandoned.
So what do you imagine is likely to be left behind? Nice, hand-made quilts? Tissue boxes with gold-painted glued on macaroni? Gospel CD’s? Lots of plaster of paris hand prints?
In the event of Rapture, and assuming a just God, I would expect to find many no-kill animal shelters completely unmanned, so we could score pet food, meds, toys, stuff there.
Probably some soup kitchens, non-profits of various sorts gonna lose staff members, too. Might score medical supplies at a couple of rural doctor’s offices in my area.
No idea, but Ill help organize the Eastern CT rummage group, we can all meet up at the Mohegan Sun casino. Should be a whole bunch of southern cracker types missing down near the sub base in Groton, so housing would be a decent place to start. At least good for shiney new pick’em’up trucks at least.
I don’t expect that the top level of any corporations are going anywhere (even the ones convinced they are holy) so I’m not planning on looting any stores.
As for the houses of the saved, I don’t buy things from Walmart now, so why would I loot them? And no cars. First, why get a car with bad gas mileage? (None of these clowns own a Prius, pretty sure of that.) And I bet they wouldn’t have done the required maintenance.
However, I do think some guns would be available. Probably be good to keep them out of the hands of Christians who didn’t jot the right i’s,
I’m thinking probably guns and ammo, maybe some stocks of really bad books (LOTS of the “Left Behind” series will be available), and obviously, I’ll gank any food supplies available. Need to prepare for the post-Rapture apocalyptic world, after all.
I’m not counting on being raptured tomorrow, but if the Rapture occurs during my lifetime, here’s what you’ll find left behind (heh) at my house:
2 starving cats
Some nice artwork - some handmade by Mrs. Homie, some we purchased at an art fair
Several hundred books (alas, none of them from the Left Behind series, and only two Bibles)
Just about everything you expect from a lower-middle-class family in terms of housewares & bric-a-brac, clothes, etc.
A Toyota Yaris
About a tenth of an ounce of … oregano, yeah, that’s what it is.
I have the strangest urge to see if my roomie can find me a black velvet painting at the flea market on sunday as a ‘see what we looted’ sort of joke for above the woodstove
I bet there will be a lot of extreme couponers gone, with the resulting 3-year stockpiles available to all the serious mustard and kleenex fans out there. . .
