A retired MTA employee has pumped his $140,000 life savings into an ad campaign warning that the world will end on May 21.Robert Fitzpatrick, a follower of the notorious California Evangalist Harold Camping, has posted his Doomsday message on 1,000 subway car placards and at bus shelters throughout New York city.
The foreboding advert reads: 'Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever - Judgement Day: May 21,' above a night time Jerusalem skyline and a clock ticking towards midnight.
Speaking to the New York Daily News, 60-year-old Mr Fitzpatrick said:'I'm trying to warn people about what's coming.
'People who have an understanding [of end times] have an obligation to warn everyone.'
The Doomsday merchant began his campaign in 2006 after hearing the 'End of days' message from well known Armageddon promoter Harold Camping.
He also outlines the wacky theories in a book, appropriately titled, 'The Doomsday Code'.
Mr Camping, along with his Family Radio road show, travel the country spreading the end of the world message.
According to the predictions of the Family Radio ministry, on May 21 a massive earthquake will shake the world apart, littering the ground with 'many dead bodies'.
Despite his conviction, Camping has predicted the world would end before - on September 4 1994.
That, he says, was a mistake, a misreading of the biblical codes used to decipher the exact date of the 'rapture'.
In order to get the warning out in time he fudged his calculations, a mistake he maintains he did not make this time.
Despite this, Mr Fitzpatrick is adamant the beginning of the end is starts next week.
He said: 'It'll start just before midnight, Jerusalem time: It'll be instantaneous and global.
'There are too many scriptures talking about 'sudden destruction.' Read More
