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The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters (vice.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-days-in-style dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this Vice profile of Robert Vicino, founder and CEO of survival prep company The Vivos Group. For a prepaid $35,000 entry fee, you may take shelter in one of his luxury bomb shelters when civilization collapses. "Those who make it their business to equip themselves for a civilization-ending mega-disaster—a.k.a. 'preppers'—are sometimes stereotyped as wild-eyed tinfoil hat wearers who live outside of society, but Robert Vicino caters to survivalists whose fears are backed up by money. The San Diego businessman is gunning to be the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar industry. If we're to follow the entrepreneur's logic, the rich don't live on the same scale as ordinary people in today's society—why should that change after the end of the world?"

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  1. Scammers by gurps_npc · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The idea that you can make it to the shelter is ridiculous. If by some chance we need one, we won't have enough notice to do more than move 50 miles. The only people that could possibly be saved by the these luxury shelters are those that work there.

    Honestly, almost all of the people selling this kind of crap are scammers.

    You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place.

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    1. Re:Scammers by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place.

      My plan is to find a Home Depot next to a grocery store and move in there.

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    2. Re:Scammers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place.

      My plan is to find a Home Depot next to a grocery store and move in there.

      MY plan is to fuck your mother again and again until I am Adam and she is Eve and we restart civilization by inbreeding. Just like in the bible.

      Go home Dad, you're drunk.

  2. First reported in 2012 by DerekLyons · · Score: 5, Informative

    First reported on /. back in 2012