Oct 24 2008Walking House Can Run Away From Floods
Art collective N55 built a walking house complete with bathroom and kitchen that can start hoofing it should shit hit the proverbial air-exchanger. It was allegedly designed to move to higher ground should a flood hit Britain. WTF, do they not have mobile homes in England? And if not, I'm moving there.
Hit the jump for a couple more pictures and a video of the leggy bastard in action.
World's first walking house [thesun]
Thanks to Uncle Ecolli, who once emptied his chemical toilet into a storm sewer.
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Reader Comments
1. Firsty - October 24, 2008 5:42 PM
fRIST!!!11
2. Spikey DaPikey - October 24, 2008 5:44 PM
Wonder if it floats as well ?
3. Daisy - October 24, 2008 5:46 PM
Fake!!!
That's an obvious fake. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
Its almost as if someone pasted legs onto Max's charcoal grill in the movie Never Back Down, and then pasted it into a screen cap from another part of the movie, Never Back Down.
4. radlad - October 24, 2008 5:48 PM
Where's the john?
5. CaptainMorgan - October 24, 2008 5:50 PM
Okay, so this thing will have to start about a month before the flood. We all know there's that kind of warning for floods, right?
Maybe they should call it the house that can escape the next ice age? Hopefully there is enough time for the house to make it...if it starts now.
6. Spydor - October 24, 2008 5:52 PM
I hope the flood isn't coming very fast...cause if it is, you're f***ed anyway
7. guate6 - October 24, 2008 5:53 PM
Neat and all...how many people can it house? where are the aforementioned amenities? And more importantly, that thing moves so slow, it would flood and then evaporate before it got to higher ground...
otherwise awesome.
8. Eazie - October 24, 2008 5:55 PM
that thing will never get away in time...... LAME!!!!!!!
9. Joey - October 24, 2008 6:04 PM
lolwut.
10. Killer Robot - October 24, 2008 6:08 PM
that was just painful.....
11. Uncle Eccoli - October 24, 2008 6:09 PM
Shitter was full!
12. Roberto - October 24, 2008 6:19 PM
st00p1d house
13. Mcfeely Smackup - October 24, 2008 6:33 PM
wow, all it takes to make an impressive headline is redefining a few common words into new meanings:
house=box
run=move faster than a glacier
solar powered=dim LED lights are powered by solar energy. The hydraulics are powered by an offboard diesel engine, but we won't talk about that.
Wind powered=wind will blow it over
fully sustainable=it's a box, and will continue to be a box indefinitely
livingroom=bedroom=kitchen=toilet
mainframe=some kind of computer
art=whatever the f*** we say it is
but the best one:
wood stove=carbon monoxide suicide chamber
14. Fullem - October 24, 2008 7:29 PM
why did i expect it to be faster...
15. Bob - October 24, 2008 8:10 PM
wow.... so not impressed. has the internet become so boring that this kind of stuff has become entertaining?
16. LSDiesel - October 24, 2008 11:43 PM
Damn, if I had that, I'd fill it with alcohol and heinous chemicals and go camping in the mountains with some of the guys.
17. NekoNeko - October 25, 2008 5:26 AM
Yup, I've always wanted to have my crapper close by my bed & within viewing distance of large windows.
18. LSDiesel - October 25, 2008 5:59 AM
another thought. If i bring my girlfriend home and we get cozy and i get lucky and one thing leads to another and i finally lose my virginity, how many peeping toms can simultaneously look in through all the windows?
and will the humping motion cause any damage to the walking mechanism?
and does it include an attic where i can secretly masturbate to my porn collection?
Does anyone really have the answers to my life's questions?
When and how will i ever get lucky? or laid?
19. OMGWAD DIASY IS A STOOGE - October 25, 2008 6:55 AM
OMG AT THAT RATE U WILL B DEAD ANYWAY!!! GOD WE SHOULD BE PUTTING OUR GREATEST BRAINS TO WORK ON BETTER TASKS... SUCH AS TRACKING DOWN DIASY AND KILLING HIM!!!
ps. i know im using caps!!
20. SexyButterfly - October 25, 2008 6:56 AM
Put -=Daisy is annoying=- after you comment if you wish to ban daisy from this website!! =)
21. malebutterfly - October 25, 2008 7:19 AM
hey butterfly.. wanna share a pupa with me for the night?
22. Astath - October 25, 2008 1:26 PM
I think the guy that made the motorhome had a better ideia.
23. Guy - October 25, 2008 7:45 PM
Yeah I appreciate you went to the effort and all, but when you saw it on the Simpsons it was meant to be a joke, not a good idea.
24. Peregrinus - October 26, 2008 5:43 AM
Howl's Moving Castle is way better.
25. Ed aka the-iguana - October 26, 2008 1:00 PM
"Walking House Can Run Away From Floods"????
were's the running part? lol...
Its a real "go ahead i'll meet you there" house... :P
26. Adra - October 26, 2008 3:04 PM
Not very quick is it.....I mean if its going to escape a flood shouldnt it be able to run faster than, oh i dont know, water?
Gx
27. assbastard - October 27, 2008 7:41 AM
Finally I'll be able to catch up with those damn gypsies that took my camping stove!
28. Gebus - October 27, 2008 11:17 AM
It would have been funny if the van would have run over it's foot.
29. sbryce - October 27, 2008 11:18 AM
There is ingenuity for the sake of survival and there is making a tiny "house" move really slowly in case of rushing water. It seems like it would be simpler to just make it float.
30. Konkey Dong - October 27, 2008 12:44 PM
wouldnt some wheels have been a lot easier? its called a mobile home, you brits.
31. Look for Daisy - October 29, 2008 2:50 PM
I have been looking through some of the different posts, and it seems Daisy responds to every post by alerting us to the fact that each image is "fake" and we can tell because "the shadows are all wrong". OMG Dasiy we get it. the shadows are all wrong. Everything is fake. Now go somewhere and die already.
32. Jon - October 30, 2008 2:14 AM
Shoot, I'm one legged and I can outrun that thing!!
Wonder why it's so danged slow?
I'd like to see what the interior looks like.
BTW: You have an awesome website. Thank you for taking the time to put all of this together for our enjoyment.
33. whos asking? - July 1, 2009 12:51 PM
Howl's moving castle. England has it