Bill Tinker and his pet cockatiel Ola (CBS)
BOYES?HOT SPRINGS (CBS 5) ? Bill Tinker, of Boyes?Hot Springs just north of Sonoma, said he plans to put down his pet cockatiel, his parrot and three cats in order to spare them the pain of judgment day which has been predicted for Saturday.
?I plan to put my babies to sleep when the earthquake hits Denver,? said Tinker who thinks that a massive world-wide quake will signal the beginning of the end. ?I don?t want them to suffer.?
The coming or the rapture was forecast by 89-year-old Oakland fundamentalist preacher Harold Camping and has been advertised in a series of public billboards.
Tinker expected the earthquake to hit around 5 p.m., and he was holding a yard sale Friday to spread the word.
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?On that day, there will be two billion plus people, in the world dead, because nobody?s going to bury them,? said Tinker. ?If my animals are going to be killed by the flood, I mean by the earthquake or the earth wave that?s going to come around the world, why would to keep them alive and allow them to be hurt??
As word spread about Tinker?s intentions, neighbors and outsiders tried to intervene.
?My question was, ?would you be willing to let me release them on my property and let them be free, until it happens??? said neighbor Heidi Rutherford. ?I have a really nice barn and we have a home with kittens in it, right now. So they?d be nice and warm, and fed, until the end.?
Tinker told her to come back after 6 p.m. Saturday, the supposed start time of the end of the world.
Some doubt the sincerity of Tinker?s claims, but the staff at a nearby veterinary clinic said he came by twice on Thursday looking for drugs to put the animals down. He was denied.
Neighbor Joe Holiday went to the Sonoma County Sheriff to halt the plan, but he was told that there isn?t much that law enforcement or Sonoma County Animal Control can do at this point.
For now, the decision in up to Tinker.
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