Feb 20 2008Bedu Emergency Kits Are Barrel Shaped
Bedu Emergency Rapid Response Kits allegedly contain everything you need to survive in a crisis zone. The kit, designed by Toby McInnes, includes "a tent, storage annex, photovoltaic strip tarpaulin/blanket, multifuel stove, lighting rig, tool kit, medical kit, water filtration system, generator and battery pack and emergency radio." These sound like a great idea. My only problem is the picture they're using. That does not look like a crisis zone. Where are the zombies and monsters? People do not wave to the camera in crisis zones. And what the hell is up with that Roman pillar in the back? You see it? The one next to the giant weed plant.
Another picture after the drop.
Bedu Emergency Rapid Response Kit Puts Everything You Need to Survive a Crisis in an Oil Drum [gizmodo]
Reader Comments
1. boinsie - February 20, 2008 7:16 PM
Good luck getting it back together after the crisis, though.
And you're right. The diorama=WTF. O_O
2. matt - February 20, 2008 7:23 PM
Sorry did i read that this kit comes with a prophylactic stick.
har har
3. Tom Swift - February 20, 2008 7:47 PM
See also: Shelter Boxes.
They include:
10-person tent and a range of other equipment for 10 people, such as: Thermal blankets, insulated ground sheets & insecticide treated mosquito nets. A wood burning stove, or A multi-fuel stove that can burn anything from diesel to old paint! Cooking pans, utensils, bowls and mugs. Collapsible water containers and water purification tablets. Basic tool kit –hammer, axe, saw, pliers, hoe head, trenching shovel, rope etc. A small, children’s pack containing drawing books, crayons, pens etc.
Each one costs about $750, but the people that are recieving them don't pay a dime. Each box is sponsored by a Rotary Club.
4. guate6 - February 21, 2008 12:08 AM
Wouldn't a nuclear explosion or something involving radiation be included in said crisis? No HasMed suits? Hardly a crisis kit I think.
5. Fred - February 21, 2008 2:58 AM
now this is more realistic. youre in a crisis... you get crisis care. you dont get a new mobile home and a debit card.
6. Tap - February 21, 2008 8:16 AM
I think that's really freakin' cool!
7. Jumpin_J - February 21, 2008 9:13 AM
Bet that thing's a pain in the ass to carry especially by yourself.
8. Violet - February 21, 2008 10:19 AM
No, you don't understand. That person waving is the Darwin Award nominee that starts off the bloodshed in any good horror flick by doing something completely stupid. See, she thinks that her husband Harold miraculously made it to join the other zombie apocalypse survivors. What she doesn't realize is that Harold's been dead a week, and is just now coming to chew off her face.
9. Jenny - February 21, 2008 10:42 AM
I want one. There- I said it
10. andrew - February 21, 2008 11:15 AM
I made a crisis kit already, but it looks more like a 12 pack of PBR and less like one of these things. Crisis solved.
11. Peregrinus - February 21, 2008 11:23 AM
We're saved! Someone brought a keg! Wait, why is it orange?
12. Zombie Hunter - February 21, 2008 11:39 AM
Where the hell is the shotgun!! How are you going to kill the fucking zombies without a shotgun!
And I agree there better be PBR in that ugly Orange barrell of uselessness
13. bt - February 21, 2008 12:00 PM
the kit is stored in a barrel so it's easy to roll to a destination.
14. lou - February 21, 2008 1:25 PM
And what precisely is a "tool kid"?
15. SlowMonkey - February 21, 2008 2:22 PM
@4 that was Geek Guy's nickname growing up.
16. Ecdison - February 21, 2008 2:44 PM
Intersesting ...
hallo from Italy :-)
17. Tom - February 22, 2008 5:54 AM
I'm getting kind of barrel-shaped, would I be useful in an emergency?
I'd be more like the guy behind the woman waving the zombies toward her (yoohoo, glad that bus only LOOKED like it killed, but you got up so you must be ok), the one with his hands in his pockets, aka - the first one to DIE (the lady will be ok, only the stupid survive the initial zombie onslaught).