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Artist Builds Backyard Survival Shelter, Homemade Shotgun Robot
asylum.com ^
| 8/31/10
| Michael B. Dougherty
Posted on 08/31/2010 8:18:59 PM PDT by Kartographer
Artist Chad Person wasn't about to sit idly by and wait for the coming robot-zombie apocalypse, so he dug up his Albuquerque, N.M., backyard and built himself a custom survival shelter.
Dubbed RECESS (Resource Exhaustion Crisis Evacuation Safety Shelter), Person's project isn't some wonky, conceptual-art stunt, but a genuine reaction to these uncertain times, just like the growing Prepper Movement.
"The short answer is fear. Just purely fear," says Person when Asylum asked him why he spends his weekends designing bulletproof doors. Person had recently achieved the adult trifecta of wife-baby-house and found his protective instincts kicking into high gear -- so he decided to replace the pool with something a bit more useful.
"After a little while of careful thought, it really made logical sense to turn it into a bunker where I could store water and resources and food and weapons," says Person.
Keep reading to get an underground tour and learn how to make your own robot shotgun sentry.
(Excerpt) Read more at asylum.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; disaster; emergency; shelter; shtf; survival; survivalist; survivalshelter
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To: Kartographer
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:19:49 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:19:52 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: Kartographer
Jeez I hope it doesn’t blow away the lil old neighbor Lady who brings over some tomatoes.
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:24:04 PM PDT
by
mylife
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To: Kartographer
To bad it’s not tall enough to stand upright in this guy is going to have a sore butt and crick in his neck.
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:25:30 PM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
To: Eaker; humblegunner; Squantos; Allegra; Darksheare
Alright! Which one of you is named “Chad?”
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:26:38 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
(Does not play well with others)
To: Kartographer
Dude needs to buy a saw and some chisels
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:31:15 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: Kartographer
I bet he’s on the new LIST!
To: Kartographer
In five years, with a folding table and a few folding chairs, it’ll make a nice rec room.
To: Kartographer
What does he call that thing in the video? a Hawg Log?
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:39:55 PM PDT
by
mylife
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To: Jack Hammer
If he hadn't advertised what he was doing he would have been able to wait for the dust to settle and then moved into Bill Murry's house.
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:43:18 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Grizzled Bear
My system is a cross of Amish an Genghis Kahn with a lot of urbanflage.
No robotics shy of a barkin pup er two.
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:44:24 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Kartographer
Why make a pipe gun? I bought one of these with the full stock and pistol grip new for $125
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:45:31 PM PDT
by
mylife
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To: Kartographer
he’d have been off planting a garden.
LOL
If you’re serious about survival, you don’t set in ‘the back yard.’ His PC pipe bow and ‘pipe guns’ and the rest would slow invaders down, for sure = for about 5 minutes - maybe.
pitiful
To: GodGunsGuts
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:47:50 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(TIME Magazine - - a conserve-a-phobe publication.)
To: Squantos; Grizzled Bear
No robotics shy of a barkin pup er two.With lasers on their heads?
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:50:32 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(Pablo is very wily)
To: Kartographer
I'd like to see 'quick kits' for pool conversions.
Lots of us in Florida have pools, but few have basements. Hiding from radiation is best done underground - and swimming pools could be converted in days with the right stuff...
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:50:40 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(TIME Magazine - - a conserve-a-phobe publication.)
To: Eaker
Well they do dispense little land mines....
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:54:01 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Kartographer
"With no formal background in construction..." Now that's the way to start any home improvement project!
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:54:26 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Eaker; Squantos
Hear me out before you stop me.
Immagine flying, vampiric beagles...
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posted on
08/31/2010 8:54:43 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
(Does not play well with others)
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