Siege mentality: George and Karen Shaw have enough food to last them a year.
That picture will look good when the government prints poster wanting information on HOARDERS.
Prepper’s Ping!
George and Karen Shaw have made themselves targets when the SHTF
Unlike last summer, the rioters on the streets aren’t looking for trainers and flat-screen TVs — just food.
He’s got cigarettes stashed. Damn. I forgot to toss a couple cartons of cheap ass smokes into my stash....
Oh man.....looks like they forgot the BEER!!!!
(if they were in America, they’d be sent to Guantanamo for being prepared....by Bath-House Barry!)
Sadly the brits who prep will be tragically defenseless when the hordes come a-calling. With their dying breathes they can thank their government that made damned sure that they were as defenseless as a newborn babe.
Did the Shaws give their address. Would make it much simpler to find them ... but then the bad guys could just Google them.
/johnny
Wait till the rats and mice start nibbling on every package they can. It’s happened to us this year...
The Shaws have not only exposed themselves to the government but roaming gangs of thugs........- know, what’s the difference.
I keep buying extra food and my teenage son keeps eating it. As much as I buy, he can pack away. And he’s still rail-thin. I hope that we don’t have a SHTF scenario until after he has enlisted and the USMC (that is, the taxpayers) has to start feeding him, so I have a chance to stock up again! :-)
Younger people whose parents don’t remember WWII won’t comprehend things like home front ration boards which relied on neighborhood busybodies and snitches to report on their neighbors who were hoarding rationed foodstuffs, tires, and gasoline in five gallon cans.
It’s ten times worse in Britain, IMO. Closed circuit TV on every street corner, police with entry warrants in their pockets, a disarmed populace and a culture that disdains gun ownership. And they also have Muslims. Hordes of them.
So glad I’m a `bitter clinger’. In America, future repression entails personal risk on the part of the oppressors unless each one of them is equipped with his own tank.
Plus, I hope they have a generator to run that freezer. One that has no emissions and makes no noise. Looters will wander about listening for generators.
I am a long way from qualifying as a “prepper,” but I reckon I am more prepared than most. It is madness to assume that financial and/or social dislocation can’t happen.
I have my own well and my own septic system, living, as I do, out in the sticks beyond the availability of municipal water and sewer. That may turn out to be a blessing in the event of major civil unrest or terrorism: water lines can be cut, municipal water reservoirs can be contaminated, and sanitation plants can be disabled. Of course, both my well and sewer pumps need electricity. So, I have a propane-fired emergency generator (preferable to natural gas in my opinion, because gas utilities can be sabotaged) capable of running the pumps as well as providing power to all appliances as well as to some lighting. My heating system is half electricity, and half propane, so if one goes out, I can still be relatively comfortable.
Obviously, if propane delivery is interrupted, I’m in trouble; but I have a 1000-gallon tank for a relatively modest size house, and I keep it topped up. I could easily last a year even with a total loss of electricity and unavailability of propane delivery.
OK, my food supply may need work. But I have lots of wine, and three corkscrews as a hedge against failures.
The Twilight Zone The Bomb Shelter (excerpt) - Do you really know your neighbours?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8otNjS4ePQQ
Not in that picture they don’t...
If I was stockpiling... I wouldn’t let anyone know about it. Too bad my house is too small to really hoard alot.
That doesn’t look anywhere near like enough for a year.
I sure hope they have more squirreled away somewhere safe to live on when everyone else comes for what’s in the photo.
What morons, exposing themselves this way. Basically painting targets on their faces.
Tobacco (I don’t smoke BTW), alcohol are good to stock up on because they have good barter value. Antibiotics and narcotics (if you’re in the medical field) would also have considerable value.
People with skills using radios would be essential for transactions.