Doomsday Preacher Suffers Stroke!

The New Zealand Herald reported today that Doomsday prophet Harold Camping had suffered a stroke and was recuperating in a Californian hospital.

"Doctors have been monitoring the progress of 89-year-old Harold Camping since he was taken by ambulance from his Alameda home late last week."  the Herald claims.

"He is presently recuperating in a local hospital and, despite being delusional, the doctors are pleased with his progress." Family Radio's special projects coordinator Michael Garcia said. 

Hospital psychiatric staff state that Camping is in an advanced state of dementia and is claiming that "The end of the world is nigh...ish, depending on which algorithm you use". 

"He's doing quite well, all thing's considered" said Camping's daughter Susan Espinoza, who works at her father's network. "We haven't made a decision on what will happen with the radio broadcasts, but for now they are playing recorded programs, like 'Michael Landon Reads the Classics', 'Billy Graham's Dummy's Guide to TV Evangalism', and Bill Clinton's Memoirs.

"I though it was the Rapture, but it turns out
it was just a dodgy vindaloo reaking havoc
with my bowels"  claims Camping

When Camping's apocalyptic prophecy failed to occur on May 21, Camping was widely mocked and he called it "a very difficult time."  He now claims that it was actually his own demise he had foreseen, and not the world's.  Camping's daughter, Espinoza, responded with "A very difficult time?  Now that's an understatement!  I was made a laughing stock and I couldn't leave my fallout bunker for weeks!"

Doctors at the hospital had confirmed Camping's hallucinations of the Rapture had unsettled staff but that they had all asked Camping to put in a good word for them to the man upstairs just in case!  "You can never be too careful can you" said one, "Besides, we did save his life so the least he could do was reciprocate in kind...right?"