Jan 20 2009Fire Hazards: $5,000 Paper Houses

FINALLY! A place to slaughter my llamas!

Normally they live in cardboard boxes....cardboard is stronger than paper....just a thought.... I don't know

How the f*** do you fit 8 homeless people, (with their grocery carts and all), in an area less than 400 square feet?

Are they midgets?

You know, the more I think about it the more I wonder what kind of animals homeless people would be slaughtering. For real, stray dogs? Sewer rats?

Can someone please enlighten me as to what kind of animals homeless people like to slaughter and bleed out in their paper showers.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where a giant lizzard emerged from the Japanese sea, and tore through the downtown area like the houses were built from balsawood and paper.

Yeah, a firehazard you know like wood.

I was reading along and I had my doubts, "What if I want to slaughter an animal on my veranda? Will the house hold up to that?" but then I kept reading and all my doubts were assuaged.

@4 - The homeless being targeted for this are in 3rd world countries, these aren't the NYC homeless we're talking about. These people hunt/fish for their survival...

I don't know how practical this is, but the idea is great. Who would be paying for them though? If these people are homeless and aren't generating income, they can't pay for it. If they are in 3rd world countries, their governments do not have the funding or will not release the funding... May just be an exercise in futility...

That's Wonderful news and great idea, but what if it starts raining?

That's wonderful, but could they move that thing off my lawn please?

Has anyone else noticed the colour scheme matches the OLPC?

f***ing socialists with their dumbass ideas. Seriously. What complete idiot pays 5k for a paper f***ing house.

this reminds me of when the U.N. decided homeless people should be eating cockroaches and worms because they were high in protein.

To all you doubters: read up about something called "buckypaper" (not a reference to that fine journal, the Daily Turgid Planet btw). Someday soon, cars and planes will also be made of paper.

Also, paper is stronger than stone. But it gets whipped by scissors… best of three Janken matches, Alex Kids!

Look out! A raping Grandpa!

More paper shit, huh? About five days of rain, that bitch is gonna slump.

This is crazy but practical. I'm 'ma let it slide through. I'm tired of ranting.

Uptown shanty town.

oooh, a large dollhouse, with only half the walls and everything!

jesus, if a homeless guy had 5,000 bucks. he stole that shit.
I bet this is a trap. Once said homeless man gets inside, it burns itself down. because, there are too many homeless that have stolen 5,000 bucks. Its a big problem where i live.

8. Thumperchica - Good call. Never thought of that, and you're right, how the hell is some homeless family going to pay $5 grand for a house?

On top of that, why the f*** would they build these houses with plumbing, do you think some homeless family in a 3rd world country is going to have running water? f*** no, and if they did, how are they going to pay to have it hooked up? AND even if they found a way to pay for it to get all hooked up and installed, how are they going to pay water bills?

This whole idea is f***in' retarded.

I live in a third world country and no, homeless people don't kill animals to survive here, also, homeless people don´t have enough money to pay for this. Ok, let's say someone is homeless and kills animals to eat to live and stuff, IF he has the 5,000 to buy this house, why wouldn't they go to the supermarket to buy food? I don't know, it just doesn't make sense, if you are homeless is cause you don't have money, how are you going to get the 5,000 to buy this.

@20: ZA is not considered a third-world country, but we do have a housing shortage. The government has built hundreds of thousands of little brick and mortar matchbox houses for homeless people (very shoddy workmanship, though—this paper idea looks way more effective). These people's water and sanitation is usually subsidized, which is a much better use of tax money than paying for keeping taco-throwing little pukes in jail…

What a retarded concept to wake up to considering the homeless smokers will likely have paper ashtrays when they extinguish a cigerette & ashy paper when they come home from an afternoon of survival. That all goes of course, if it doesn't rain too much. I can't imagine they'd try using electricity either

@22. Anita Bath - Ah, I see, thanks for enlightening me ;-) And I agree with you, we should not pay taxes to keep taco throwers in jail, they should just get the electric chair. Once zapped to well-done we should then chop and pack them up and include them as a food package that comes with the paper houses. What do you think? No more slaughtering animals in the shower, just eat pre-cooked convicts!

@24: Hehe, that thing of bleeding and washing the animal in the shower offended even my not-so-tender sensibilities… which reminds that there's one animal all of you (21 included) are forgetting: chickens! TIA people, TIA…

@25. Anita Bath - Don't be silly, chickens are covered in feathers, have you ever tried to wash 10,000 feathers down your shower drain? No? Well I have, and let me tell you, it's a f***in' mess like nothing you've ever seen.

Ha ha, was that the time you cut yourself shaving?

If it had anything to do with voodoo, then don't bother answering…

Ok, Anita, just because you're so super smart doesn't mean you have to share your findings with the rest of the world, okay? There are some thing people just don't need to know, like the fact that I have a feather/shaving problem.....

No worries, angel.

@30. Anita Bath - God, that is such a f***ing awesome scene, now I am going to have to go rent that movie when I get off work.

Where's the matches?

my tribe is having a bake sale to raise funds to buy one of these paper homes. we are wondering: does the capacity of 'eight' also include the space in the shower and on the porch? If we are able to pile 8 tribe members into the living area, I would think that we could get some more into the shower when we are not filling it with slaughtered animals. Maybe it will hold 14 and we will be able to split the cost 14 ways. What financing is available to unemployed fish hunters? I have heard many good things about these 5 yr. ARM's, no? Maybe 6 fish down, 1 fish per week until full payment met? We are excited for house!

@21: it shouldn't be a matter of people, but government buying it...

on the other side, it's a brand new weapon for drug dealers in slums wars.. you know "go up there torch the bitches down" stuff... pretty neat

I'd give that thing 1 Canadian winter before it's pulp.

@19 That's why it fits 8. You cram them all in there, close it up and set it ablaze, by tomorrow morning there's a new one in place ready for 8 more!

Well the good news is even if it does collapse on you you'll be perfectly fine.

IKEA will start selling these as competition — but you'll have to put it together yourself.

pets??? really? gash id be more concerned about gettin it blown away.

this is awesome....I would love to have a house that a wolf can blow down, the rain can dump on, and that costs 5000 bucks. i mean if i was a homeless person with no money i would definitely start looking for pennies on the streets.
O.o i wonder if murderers use this for their benefit......this just screams out..kill animals or people and hang it up, your house can hold it and the cops won't check it because its just a homeless house.

:] okay rant over

@24. you know what would be really ironic? if we put that taco throwing puke that we cut up....into a taco!

Perfect to claim squatters rights with.

You don't slaughter a llama on the veranda dumbasses... you take to the middle of the plaza, rip its liver off with a rusty old knive, drink the blood, chew on coca leaves, spit cheap liquor on the people around you, foresee your future (learn how a wild llama pack will rape you to death), get drunk as f***... and then you make llama jerky on the clotheslines the next morning. So screw the useless veranda!!

@1 and 40 and whoever else...How dare you suggest our slaughter!?!

i dare because you have no idea where i am and therefore i can say whatever i want ;]

It's infused with cellulose, so no worries about getting drenched.
It's also a bit more resistant to fire.

But there's something better than paying $5,000 for a home:
Habitat for Humanity.

1st lol since no one else said it i got it 1st and lol i think that thing is gona collasp easily and how the heck are they gona find a small ass land to put that on unless they all hawl it to diff place each time

I wonder how many dead clowns I could fit in there..

@19 - lmfao

Where do you put the 51in Plazma?
and no Garage for the Beemer?

oh thats right someone could break in with a butter knife!

mmmmm honeycomb walls.

honestly, it's a stupid idea that will never be put into use... Not because of the fact that it costs 5k to build the house... some 3rd world country governments pays a lot more to build real houses and get some of the homeless of the street.... but the thing is... How long does this house last??? brick and cement houses last 50 years... will this even stay up for a year/???

yo this iz stupid

Yo you iz stupid, pghjd

@41

I love taco throwing tacos!

Er... not that I would know or anything...