# PROOF Camping is a fraud!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 23, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882 "2011-05-23T12:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/1 "2011-05-23T12:03:13Z")
Well, waddaya know. The charlatan has a brand spanking new website up with lots of fancy flash menus and graphics! The doomsday countdown is gone, no mention of the rapture (at least not on the home page) but you betcha the payment system is up and running! And it’s ugly as sin. [http://www.familyradio.com](http://www.familyradio.com) So either he developed this elaborate website in the last 24 hours, or he had it ready to go before Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/2 "2011-05-23T12:07:40Z")
Darnit, I was looking for some elaborate conspiracy theory about how nobody has ever actually gone out into the woods and slept in a tent. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/3 "2011-05-23T12:09:12Z")
I was actaully tempted to send an email to the fraudsters but decided thati’d just be feeding a troll ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/4 "2011-05-23T12:09:55Z")
Yeah, I was wondering how you were going to argue that camping is fraudulent. FWIW, I put ALL Doomsday predictors into the “fraud” category. No website needed. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/5 "2011-05-23T12:12:42Z")
Though, apparently most of the people at family radio didn’t believe in him. There is the possibility that the more responsible person in charge was preparing for the ouster of Camping once his prediction failed and the revamping of the radio station. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/6 "2011-05-23T12:13:19Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Darnit, I was looking for some elaborate conspiracy theory about how nobody has ever actually gone out into the woods and slept in a tent. 😃 I was wondering about that myself… but I’m not the least bit surprised about the scam artist. I’m truly sorry for anyone who gives up their money to him. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/7 "2011-05-23T12:14:04Z")
> [@flight](#): > > Though, apparently most of the people at family radio didn’t believe in him. There is the possibility that the more responsible person in charge was preparing for the ouster of Camping once his prediction failed and the revamping of the radio station. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/8 "2011-05-23T12:48:59Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Darnit, I was looking for some elaborate conspiracy theory about how nobody has ever actually gone out into the woods and slept in a tent. 😃 Hah! Me too. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/9 "2011-05-23T12:51:04Z")
It’s worse than that. His entire site is built in FLASH. ---
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/10 "2011-05-23T13:02:09Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s worse than that. His entire site is built in FLASH. Using frames! Surely the work of the devil. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/11 "2011-05-23T13:11:34Z")
I thought this would be about people who go “camping”, but never leave the safety and comfort of their huge RV. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/12 "2011-05-23T13:51:14Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I thought this would be about people who go “camping”, but never leave the safety and comfort of their huge RV. Now THAT would be rapture! ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/13 "2011-05-23T14:52:08Z")
Looking around in it, I think that web page is an old one rather than a brand new one. Clicking on “Family Radio News” on that web page gets you the Q4 2008 edition. Their “Radio Reading Circle” (under “Family Features”) is last dated 06/27/2007. I’m guessing their webadmin just nuked the website that announced May 21 and replaced it with an old one as a placeholder until they could get their act together again. Then again, I could be wrong, just like Camping! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/14 "2011-05-23T14:57:26Z")
I knew all those guys with limp wrists and talking with a lisp couldn’t really be homosexualists! ---
**Author:** ![Bamboo\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Bamboo\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bamboo_Boy)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/15 "2011-05-23T15:06:13Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Darnit, I was looking for some elaborate conspiracy theory about how nobody has ever actually gone out into the woods and slept in a tent. 😃 > > > [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > > > Hah! Me too. Me THREE! Man, I was almost giddy with anticipation and I am actually kinda mad at myself for not seeing this shameless tactic of just changing the website, omitting all that Armageddon stuff and behaving as if nothing at all had happened. What infuriating humbugs these self-aggrandizing idiots are. It will still be interesting to see how this develops, me thinks, and how long before the next end-of-the-world date is announced. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/16 "2011-05-23T15:12:36Z")
They have to find a way to keep the donations coming in. Oops would implicate them in the Camping Trip-up. So they will pretend it never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/17 "2011-05-23T17:16:28Z")
Well, he’s not a total fraud. Both the old and the new websites still have a place for [del]suckers[/del] [del] believers[/del] suckers to make contributions. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/18 "2011-05-23T17:20:49Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Darnit, I was looking for some elaborate conspiracy theory about how nobody has ever actually gone out into the woods and slept in a tent. 😃 See, I was looking for a thread on how camping in first-person shooter games didn’t work. If you’d posted that thread on the Call of Duty forums there’d already be about 80,000 posts, most of them questioning the previous poster’s sexual orientation. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/19 "2011-05-23T18:46:53Z")
Reports are that Camping is [flabbergasted](http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110523/ts_yblog_thelookout/doomsday-prophet-followers-flabbergasted-world-didnt-end). ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882/20 "2011-05-23T18:49:52Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Reports are that Camping is [flabbergasted](http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110523/ts_yblog_thelookout/doomsday-prophet-followers-flabbergasted-world-didnt-end). Weird. They are disappointed that the world did not end . Hard to feel for people who thought they would be sucked into heaven while the rest would suffer horribly for 6 months. Fuck them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proof-camping-is-a-fraud/582882.md?page=2)