Woe, woe, thrice woe...

A couple of months or so ago I mentioned this idea that the world will end on December 21st, because that's when the Mayan calendar runs out.  Now an even weirder idea has surfaced that a little village in the French Pyrenees called Bugarach will be the only place to survive.  Just where this idea comes from nobody seems to know, and it's difficult to see any connection between the ancient Mayans and France but enough people are taking notice of it to raise concerns in the village as to how they will cope if thousands of people turn up on the day.  Apparently, according to the Mayor, they have already become "overrun with esoteric weirdos" and "the mountainside is swarming with hippies".  I liked his comment following one such who died trying to climb the mountain - "The end of the world came a bit earlier for him than he expected".