# Let's talk seriously about Post-Rapture looting. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522 "2011-05-20T00:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/1 "2011-05-20T00:37:26Z")
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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=608172&highlight=rapture), 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? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/2 "2011-05-20T00:42:03Z")
Those crocheted spare-toilet-paper-roll covers that have a doll and the crocheted part is like a hoopskirt that covers the toilet paper roll. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/3 "2011-05-20T02:12:01Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/4 "2011-05-20T02:19:00Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > **Let’s talk seriously about Post-Rapture looting.** A gentleman never picks pockets whilst his partner is in mid-orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/5 "2011-05-20T02:22:44Z")
Thomas Kinkaide artworks. Quite possibly all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/6 "2011-05-20T04:38:26Z")
Yes. I can totally believe all of these. **Oakminster** , you make me hope that the critters get to go, too. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/7 "2011-05-20T08:51:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/8 "2011-05-20T10:38:39Z")
Such a small number of people are supposed to disappear I don’t see any real looting potential. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/9 "2011-05-20T10:41:28Z")
Double wides will be available. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/10 "2011-05-20T14:18:26Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Double wides will be available. Dogs Playin’ Poker and Elvis on Black Velvet pictures for everyone! WOOHOO!!!111 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/11 "2011-05-20T19:26:58Z")
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, ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/12 "2011-05-20T19:33:04Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > A gentleman never picks pockets whilst his partner is in mid-orgasm. All the gentlemen are going to be in heaven, leaving more for me to loot! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/13 "2011-05-20T19:35:51Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Such a small number of people are supposed to disappear I don’t see any real looting potential. Assume that 144,000 is a metaphor and that a neighborhood near you got lucky and was visibly depleted. > [@swampbear](#): > > Dogs Playin’ Poker and Elvis on Black Velvet pictures for everyone! WOOHOO!!!111 I hadn’t considered those, but they fit. It calls to mind a relatives of relatives wedding in a church with Jesus on black velvet above the altar. * * * Do you think there will be lawn ornaments available? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/14 "2011-05-20T19:44:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Do you think there will be lawn ornaments available? Saint statues in upended-bathtub shrines, maybe. Wait, do Catholics get raptured? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Tremayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@Captain\_Tremayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Tremayne)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/15 "2011-05-20T19:45:23Z")
Radios. All tuned to Christian stations. Which of course will have gone out of business, so you might have to fiddle with them to be sure they work. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/16 "2011-05-20T19:50:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/17 "2011-05-20T20:00:26Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > 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’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. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/18 "2011-05-20T20:24:49Z")
Well, it’s already May 21 in part of the world and Jesus isn’t coming. I’m going to regret maxing out my credit cards on cash advances to buy all this blow. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/19 "2011-05-20T20:43:52Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > 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 > About a tenth of an ounce of … oregano, yeah, that’s what it is. Dibs on the cats and the … herbs. 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 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522/20 "2011-05-22T00:47:30Z")
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. . . [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-seriously-about-post-rapture-looting/582522.md?page=2)