Welp. Guess he'll need a new plan, what with all his firearms confiscated and everything.
Posted on 01/16/2014 6:42:22 AM PST by Lazamataz
We ripped on bloated Doomsday Prepper Tyler Smith in November for his shameless plan to loot his neighbors at gunpoint in the event of a disaster. He is the antithesis of real preppers, who tend to be self-sufficient people intent on helping themselves and others in the event the worst comes to pass.
It was obvious during the cringe-worthy episode that Smith possessed no more than a room temperature IQ, but asserting that he was even that smart turns out to have been far too generous:
Smith was prominently featured in a segment that aired in November 2013. On the show, he is seen firing several rifles to test his home made body armor, claiming it is superior to professionally made bullet resistant vests. “It’s going to be light weight and stronger that anything you can buy in the store,” Smith said on the show.
He also bragged for the camera about his plans to raid and loot other doomsday preppers’ supplies when the end times came. “All your shiny AR’s your high powered .308 rifles, your 50,000 rounds of ammo are all going to be ours”, Smith warned.
Pierce county investigators say it was those claims, and Smith’s brazen use of firearms on camera that landed him back in jail. “What led us to this guy was himself. He put himself on TV and in newspaper articles and he did things that scared the neighbor,” said Troyer.
Smith is a level one sex offender following his conviction in King county in 2009, but he has not registered with law enforcement since his move to Pierce county. Troyer said he could face an additional charge of failing to register as a sex offender.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Welp. Guess he'll need a new plan, what with all his firearms confiscated and everything.
He is so screwed.
Tyler Smith violated the first rule of prep club...
I remember seeing him and thinking that it wouldn’t be long before my neighbors took him off the table as a potential threat.
Good.
A true dirtbag.
I am all for the Second Amendment...except for a-holes like this guy.
He’d be a mandatory first-dealt-with.
The 8th Rule of Prep Club: If this is your first night at Prep Club, you HAVE to prep.
You may be a bigger badass than any of us,
but you’re not a bigger badass than all of us...
It sounds to me like he was playing his character pretty well. He was just stupid in real life.
Isn't his the plan of all businesses these days. Have your vendors hold your inventory for you for a "just in time" delivery ?
Yeah. We tried to tell him: 45 is a desirable *CALIBER*, not a desirable *IQ*.
Not sure how that quite fits, but ok, that’s an opinion too.
On one show this guy was making Claymore mines with what he claimed was C4 explosive. How can that be legal and where would one buy some? He tested the mine and it worked fairly well.
Glad they did. This bubba was reckless.
A pervert too, eh?
Just not with kids or animals or inanimate objects or guys.
BUT WITH EVERYTHING ELSE!
Exactly.
I’m not a fan of the lone prepper model anyway. It runs counter to just about every survival scenario I can think of. Survival is always easier in a group (up to a point).
I prefer the small town model. I’m on friendly terms with pretty much everyone in my very small town and have lots of strong ties to people in a dozen other small towns around plus nearly as many people in between.
I don't know anyone.
I should be okay, right?
Just damn.
I wanted to test that homemade body armor for him.
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