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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: Squantos

LoL!


21 posted on 08/31/2010 8:55:06 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: mylife

Where?!!!


22 posted on 08/31/2010 8:57:22 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: Kartographer

Around here we call them things storm cellars. I have a storm cellar and then I have my TEOTWAWKI buildings. This guy just has an idea and a publicist.


23 posted on 08/31/2010 8:58:29 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vladimir998

Ammo Depot about 3 years ago


24 posted on 08/31/2010 8:58:53 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: vladimir998

Its a chinese copy of the remington 870.

When the patent expired they started “pumping” them out cheap.


25 posted on 08/31/2010 9:01:02 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: Kartographer

Wouldn’t a used (surplus and dirt cheap) ocean cargo container with doors work just fine? bury it in the yard .. instant shelter.


26 posted on 08/31/2010 9:01:54 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: mylife

:o)


27 posted on 08/31/2010 9:01:54 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos

My boy lays those huge “Anti Hank” mines LoL


28 posted on 08/31/2010 9:03:57 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Beagles ? You don’t like to sleep ?

LOL.....nite !


29 posted on 08/31/2010 9:03:59 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: mylife

Nutraloaf manufacturing unit....

Nite !


30 posted on 08/31/2010 9:05:54 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Squantos

Yup.

Gnight


31 posted on 08/31/2010 9:07:07 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: Neidermeyer

“Wouldn’t a used (surplus and dirt cheap) ocean cargo container with doors work just fine? bury it in the yard .. instant shelter.”

DON’T TRY THAT AT YOUR HOME!

Tell your Liberal ‘friends’ to do that, but do realize that the soil loads will collapse the sides in most soil conditions.

And don’t even think of burying the roof underground.


32 posted on 08/31/2010 9:13:22 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Kartographer

Bookmarking for the ZPL when I get home from work.


33 posted on 08/31/2010 9:19:03 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: mylife
Most of the parts can be directly - even the barrel (with a spacer) exchanged - the receiver is machined from a solid steel billet.

Weigh a ton, but they shoot pretty sweet... or (koff, koff) so I have heard from ‘friends’.

34 posted on 08/31/2010 10:04:17 PM PDT by ASOC (This space reserved for)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Alright! Which one of you is named “Chad?”

I don't know but he has an autographed copy of Al Gore's book.

35 posted on 08/31/2010 10:08:14 PM PDT by magslinger (DISCLAIMER: No liberals were harmed in the making of this post. I'm sorry and will try harder.)
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To: Kartographer

bookmark


36 posted on 08/31/2010 11:20:09 PM PDT by patriot preacher
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To: Kartographer

His largest mistake is that he told everybody about it. Unless he built a second shelter and this first shelter is a diversion. LOL


37 posted on 09/01/2010 5:56:49 AM PDT by 2001convSVT ("Hand out pocket Constitutions to everyone you can")
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To: CholeraJoe; Delta 21; Nikas777; NoAmnesty; Yorlik803; TheOldLady; The Comedian; OB1kNOb; ...


Because when it comes to zombies, you just can't be too dern sure about that whole, "Fight or flight," thingy...
38 posted on 09/01/2010 6:08:41 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: Kartographer; RandallFlagg
With no formal background in construction, Person wheeled in 20 yards of cement by hand to pour the bunker's 6-inch-thick, concrete rebar roof.

Tragically, a cat walked on top of the amateur-poured roof, causing it to cave in, and crushed Person instantly.

Ironically, the zombies outside of the shelter were unharmed.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

39 posted on 09/01/2010 8:47:13 AM PDT by The Comedian
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To: mylife
Why make a pipe gun? I bought one of these with the full stock and pistol grip new for $125

Ummm, if our ever so loving tolerant liberal government decides to take away our guns and escort us to 'camps'... we'll have an alternative... a cheap easy alternative.

40 posted on 09/01/2010 9:00:12 AM PDT by GOPJ (TIME Magazine - - a conserve-a-phobe publication.)
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