Don't come to my village for the end of the world, says mayor

[cali]

By Henry Samuel, The Daily Telegraph December 21, 2010 Comments (54)


The mayor of Bugarach, Jean-Pierre Delord, poses on December 14, 2010 in front of a road sign, marking the entrance of the village of 200 under the 1,231 meter high peak of Bugarah, the culminating point of the Corbieres range in southwestern France.

The mayor of Bugarach, Jean-Pierre Delord, poses on December 14, 2010 in front of a road sign, marking the entrance of the village of 200 under the 1,231 meter high peak of Bugarah, the culminating point of the Corbieres range in southwestern France.
Photograph by: PASCAL PAVANI, AFP/Getty Images

The mayor of a French village has threatened to call in the army to seal it off from an influx of New Age fanatics and UFO watchers, who are convinced it is the only place on Earth that will be spared Armageddon in 2012.

Bugarach, population 189, is a peaceful, picturesque farming community in the Aude region of southwestern France and sits at the foot of the Pic de Bugarach, the highest mountain in the Corbieres wine-growing area.

But in the past few months, the quiet village has been inundated by groups of esoteric outsiders who believe the peak is an "alien garage".

According to them, extraterrestrials are quietly waiting in a massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end, at which point they will leave, taking, it is hoped, a lucky few humans with them.

Most believe Armageddon will take place on December 21 2012, the end date of the ancient Maya calendar, at which point they predict human civilization will come to an end. Another favourite date mentioned is December 12 2012. They see Bugarach as one of perhaps several "sacred mountains" that will be sheltered from the cataclysm.


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[Forkboy]

1. Dec. 22nd, 2012 is going to be awesome.

:)

[ixion]

2. Mayan prophecy doesn't say it will 'end' it says there will be a change

from what I've read about it.

[ZombieHorde]

3. I feel for the villagers, but this is pretty funny. nt

[liberal N proud]

4. If that is the only place and everyone is banned...

What will everyone do?

:rofl:

[uppityperson]

5. Santa brought us a dvd by mistake 2012:Doomsday.

Santa thought it was 2012 but ended up mistakenly picking up a copy of this Christian Fundie Rapture take for a buck at a book sale. I was really disappointed, wanted to watch bad disaster and had to fast forward through ongoing conversations about Faith. At least mom got raptured. Didn't know a snowball could make that big of a hole through someone's back and oddly I never thought or snow looking like strings.

[DCKit]

8. There were actually three different versions of 2012, end of the world movies this year.

I laughed the whole way through that one, but the other two were actually pretty good.

Just another sucker for Armageddon movies, but don't believe a bit of it. My concern is the fundies and survivalists. If God doesn't give 'em Armageddon, they're going to try to create it.

[uppityperson]

9. I didn't know there were more than 1. Have to go check it out

imdb.com
ooooooooooooo !!!

2012:supernova!
2012: An Awakening
Defcon 2012

[DCKit]

10. 2012, 2012 Doomsday and 2012 Supernova.

I'm thinking someone just grabbed the wrong one off the shelf and that the similar titles are intentional.

Kinda like publishing a book called "Going Rouge".

[PufPuf23]

6. I live in a land of deep canyons yet less than 30 crow miles from the Pacific.

In 1964 a 100 ? year flood wiped out all bridges but one on the local Rivers. Then many of the state and county highways were one lane or gravel while all are now paved and most two laned with new and higher bridges. My parents in childhood lived in an area with no wagon much less automobile access until 1921; freight was by mule. Public transportantion is worse than in my childhood in the 1950s (there is none but the local Tribe is trying to piggyback to connect existing systems. We did not have telephone until after I graduated high school and electricity was by generator or none when I was a child. There are still historic villages within 20 miles drive off the electric and phone grid.

The US Forest Service and the local Tribe are the political forces in an area of National Forests and Indian Reservation or aboriginal territory now National Forest.

Now I find this giggly. Back in 2003 or 2004, FEMA came for a community meeting. The locals, American Indian and other long term families, said we will just blow the bridges and access should shit hit the fan.

There was an example where a major county road slid out repeatedly and the Feds and county could not find a solution. Locals used their heavy equipment to fix the road and gated it to private keys in civil disobediance. The Feds responded by building a poorly conceived detour until the county road was finally fixed.

The reality is that if there was a nuclear war or similar, the bridges and access would last but days. I would not be an actor.

What is interesting is that Homeland Security through funding has influenced the politics of the local Tribes and National Forest Managers more recently.

[BeFree]

7. Thank you, Her Mayor

What a great advertisement, and it didn't cost you a dime.

Luckily for me, most people will ignore this and laugh it off, but not me.

So get me a bed ready. ETA: May 15ish. Thanks, dude.