Posted on 03/09/2020 2:57:03 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
There – a concealed hatch. Van Allen tugged it open with his fingers and descended into the ground, closing the hatch behind. Below, he flicked on lights at a switch. He hung up his coat.
Push-button LED lights were stuck to the walls using tape. There was a portable gas stove down here, and now that Van Allen was in for the night, he lit it and emptied a can of soup into a pan.
So. No giveaway litter. No lingering near the hatch during daylight hours. And no boasting, not at The Garden Gate, not while fulfilling handyman jobs around town. Liked by his friends for his graveyard sense of humour, Van Allen told them he’d built a ranch. What he did not say was that the ranch was 14ft by 10ft, about the size of a generous disabled loo, and hidden under one of the country’s busiest public parks.
.... Van Allen and Wójcik got into a nightly routine, waiting till about midnight, downing an energising beer, and digging for an hour or more.
...Some rules for bunker life, 2016-18. If you were in at night, no crackling around in the undergrowth for a wee. Van Allen kept an empty juice bottle by his bed for this reason. (The Innocent brand was best. Wide neck.) If you wanted a hot meal, you reheated soup in the bunker, sometimes pre-made mashed potato, or the milder Thai curries that M&S sold; but no smellier foods, nothing that might lure a curious animal into the clearing. “Behind every dog” went another of Van Allen’s rules, “there’s an owner.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
On this side of the pond, there was a recent story about hidden dwellers in Las Vegas. Would NOT BE SURPRISED if there are such in every large city. Wherever there are gaps and cracks, someone(s) will squeeze in.
There was a guy in Milwaukee recently who had a similar setup.
So he’s now in prison?
Interesting story.
Were there photos? The article is lengthy, but did not see any pictures.
CHUDs. Or at the very least, Morlocks.
Then he was arrested for having a zip gun. He’s never been in trouble. They need to Leave the guy alone.
“ There had been incongruous laughter at his trial, too. Accused, police, lawyers, members of the jury – all chuckled together at Van Allen’s wordier flights while he was under interrogation. At one stage, he’d spoken wistfully of the old bunker: “My permanent des-res,” Van Allen called it. “Just an ideal spot. You had the train station, you had a cafe, you had a Starbucks, you had the hospital, you had the 168 bus, the 24, the 46 … You couldn’t see in from the footpath. It was bloody brilliant.”
Fascinating read— Thanks for posting. Preppers take note!
FWIW, I’ve read about the cities of homeless beneath NYC, in the drainage & train infrastructure.
As a middle school kid, my friends & I would play hooky & run for miles thru the huge drainage pipes beneath the city.
We’d come up under traffic intersections & reach out the drain openings at the curbs, grabbing pedestrians’ ankles as they waited for the “walk” signal.
To us 12-year-olds, this was hilarious.
No 2A there. Too bad; it seems a simple handmade single shot firearm did him in. I didn’t read the entire thing; just enough to understand he had built a nice (for him) personal underground mini-home bunker. Pretty cool really and price for rent was right.
Wow.... cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers reference... and I knew it.
bump for later
ping
So, he made a spider hole.
Send in the Tunnel Rats.
Yes, but did you ever see the movie?
i watched the movie... and then recapped it fast forward for someone who wanted to borrow the vhs... i said do not bother...
C.H.U.D.
hehehe
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