It’s the End of Days – Punk’d!

An 18-year-old Maryland teen had a plan: put piles of old clothes on the sidewalk to fool people into thinking “the end of days” actually occurred. His mother told The Baltimore Sun it was a clever but probably impractical idea.  

Saturday marks what California radio preacher Harold Camping says will be the day Christians will experience rapture and be taken to heaven. Those left behind will experience months of bad weather and other trials until the Earth finally becomes defunct as a planet, he and his followers believe.

In Maryland, though, residents seemed more focused on the Preakness, set for Saturday at the Pimlico Race Course, than the apocalypse, according to the Sun.

A Catonsville man spent thousands on ads and billboards warning of the end in the Baltimore area, but others took it less seriously, including Joppatowne's Jean Miskimon. It was her son who came up with the idea to drop suits of clothes around town—to make it look like "people were pulled right out of their clothes and taken into heaven," she told the Sun. 

Judgment Day was supposed to begin at 6 p.m. in individual time zones across the world, according to Camping, as quoted by the Associated Press.

But as one person who was quoted on Twitter said: “If this whole end-of-the-world thingy is still going on...it’s already past 6.00 in New Zealand and the world hasn’t ended.”