Feb 26 2009Kid Designs Homeless Domes Out Of Trash

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MWAHAHHA SECOND!!!

and dare i say it???????????

third!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA MINE ALL MINE!!!!!!!!!!

Smart kid.

stop that you 3 Stooges

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He looks like a young Patton Oswalt.

How's that for obscure reference? Look him up.

So in a stiff breeze, you'll see a bunch of bum's chasing their leaky trash-houses down the block? I doubt it... Way to create bigger litter kid...

It has 2 functions: 1. It's insulating and looks more stylish than a cardboard box, and 2. If you want to end your misery, just shut yourself in and you'll suffocate to death.

Maybe a third function is you can take it to soccer games and bounce it around like a giant beach ball, only it's a giant soccer ball!

Endless possibilities now that I think about it.

"Did I mention he's an inventor? 12-year old boy-inventor Max Wallack designed a homeless dome for the less fortunate, out of trash. "

Uh, I don't know if we were watching the same video. The one I watched had an adult guy telling Max how they were going to build the thing. Also, it's made of "trash" as long as you define trash as aluminum rods, heavy gauge mylar sheets, and packing peanuts...all stuff people don't just throw away.

i just read this on yahoo and i think he is a very bright kid... actually, i used the same username so go and find me!!!

This little turd magnet looks like the Penguin from batman. I want to trash dome this little jerk so hard.

@10- no, they always do that, the host wants to announce the steps clearly while the guest (this kid) may just be focused on building, its not a new phenominom

wait, WHERE'S DAISY!?!?! oXmg panic attack. did daisy finally... dare i say it... back, down?

Yeah, well, I won a bike at 12 for coming first in a national design competition. The kid can stik the homeless up his arse, I got shitty bike on a supposedly unique and industry-reforming frame that weighed the same as a small car and broke every twenty feet.

Stupid kid.

@13 - "phenominom"? seriously? that is awesome. nom nom.

It's quite a bit larger than the umbrella hat so the homeless can't see where they are going when they walk. I'm afraid they will wander into traffic. Have you ever seen the fender damage the average size homeless person can cause? It's pretty bad. On the plus side, if it can be designed to reverse direction like an umbrella in strong wind, it could be used to collect rain water for baths, drinking (OK, let's be honest: that water could only be used as a Chaser. They drink Mad Dog 20/20).

Hey, if the plastic makes a tight enough seal won't the "person of non-residence" asphyxiate?

That is both diabolical and awesome

Where the fruck is a homeless person gonna store this piece of shite, it's huge.

Eh I'm not sure if this is titled correctly.. the materials look new, not from a trash can. And how exactly does a homeless person pick up and move this structure? A cop isn't going to let a city of these things pop up. I'd agree it's a good possibly inexpensive shelter for disaster victims, but homeless? Probably not.

Um...simma don naw kid. I don't like your futuristic looking homeless home looking cooler than my actual home. Someone poke a hole in that thing.

@19- store it? Where do you store your house..? It's a home, it's not like homeless people walk out of their nicely furnished apartments with a huge packing peanut dome so they can go sleep under the bridge...

Sure they might asphyxiate...so buns for solving the ever increasing homeless problem as well. Also, for those who say that its not technically trash.. welll.....

If a hobo gets one, and dies from suffocation in it, he's not using it anymore. So what is it??? It becomes.. you guessed it.. trash!! Then the next hobo uses it, (Yay recycling!!) and THAT one dies from suffocation. It is then passed from street person to street person, until ultimately, we have no homeless anymore.

But I DO have a new dip bowl for my chips and dip!!

Bring on the sour cream!!!!

After watching that video I don't think the kid had too much to do with the design beside the prototype... In other bum-sheltering news-- someone made an inflatable igloo that hooks up to exhausts from restaurants.

Anyway you look at this, the homeless are not going to make these things, and if they could afford to buy it... well... they probably wouldn't be homeless.

Still, a "pure" thought from a child -WIN!

he invented a tent.

@ anyone criticizing... Why? We finally see some positive news and you guys rip it apart? Who the heck cares about its size or material, a 12 year old is trying to make a difference. What have you guys done? Its absolutely astonishing how some people consciously choose to be part of a problem and then show it off with some rediculously uneducated and self absorbed comment

I Agree with 26

@26. False dichotomy: "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem". They have a right to criticize. Anyway, I like the ideal behind this, but I'll have to say it's not practical. Perhaps these shows are a problem- they're the rich condescending the poor. Everything seems so self-congratulatory. I prefer actually donating money, but they have a production budget spent on filming this. Strange how the money spent on studying the poor and making contests on them and stuff never actually goes into helping them.

Holy shit, talk about re-inventing the wheel, I didn't even notice past all the trash and homelessness, #25 is right, it's a fcuking tent...that's it, a really poorly designed tent.

@28, I agree with the dichotomy but I think you're missing his point. Simplify the argument: why are people maliciously criticizing a 12 year old's positive efforts? Perhaps it could have been made more clear that the point of contention lies within posts such as 12 and 15... totally unnecessary. those posts are what i believe 26 was solely concerned with

Not wind, fire, rain, urine tested. Shopping cart full of soda cans and bottles stolen because of lack of window, therefore EPIC FAIL! in an unrelated story this week, a 13 year old boy is now a papa
*Sniff they grow up so fast....
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@30 I got his point, that's why I said I liked the ideal behind this. But it seems so futile sometimes. And you wonder if this boy is truly in it for helping the poor or just in it for the accolade. See how he sneaks the whole "I won a contest before" thing in there? Or maybe I'm just being cynical.

come on, the kid is so fat! he can never be a winner.. he lacks the discipline..

because all homeless people have powertools on hand :)

and the homless that are cold will plug all the air holes to retain heat in the insulated plastic dome of death.... best way to solve the crisis...suffocate them

besides finding allyways with that much free space will suck, its like those mountains of snow in the parkinglots....only dozens of them...year round... oh boy the homless igloo squatter colony now showing at your local wallmart.... where will all the rv squatters go?

Lol wut, it's expensiver than the 5000 $ Paper House...

First of all, these materials are trash- you just need to look at the right INDUSTRY. 2nd, 2 shipping pallets and this dome = no suffocation. Let the kid try a social/eco experiment. It may not be perfect, but at least he's trying.
@32 - If you READ it, he points out that winning that contest took him to Chicago, where he saw the homeless problem for the first time and was inspired to create this. Relevant.
*sarcasm starting now* OMG! A 12 year old wants approval!- he must be evil! It's not a perfect solution to a massive problem that none of us are doing anything about - let's flame it!

so if you move the homeless to where its nice and warm they wont need the dome right? so a place where it doesnt rain and its warm so they dont get wet. what about a island?? and we just send them food on this island? or africa? lots of animals running around they can eat i would do the island and someone just drops off pigs and chickens and stuff and fishing poles and sun block, and instructions on how to build a resort then once the resort has been built you move them to another island?? how is that for inventions biatches only took me 12 seconds to come up with that no 12 years.

Michael Rackowitz anyone? This kid is ripping off so many people.

Bet they burn real gooood ;)

@38 i can't believe you think Africa is full of "lots of animals running around they can eat". You F*ucking buttnut. Even a 12 year old would know how retarded that assumption is.

41 - Knowing it is a dumb assumption; I still think of wildlife and free range game when I think of africa. Well, that plus black market gun trade, blood diamonds, apartheid, and death. So don't feel too bad #38, you are not alone...

All I'm saying is patting yourself on the back because you came up with the idea of shipping the world's homeless population to Africa as a solution to anything would be like the GW posting 10 youtube videos of chicks with Moebius Syndrome on top of the one he already did.

@7 Is Patton Oswalt really that obscure a reference? I thought he was fairly well known at this point.

@7-its not that he is obscure, it's that no one cares about him.

I bet homeless people dont even want it.. Plus, can you imagine how smelly they would get..

"26. Caper - February 26, 2009 10:17 PM

@ anyone criticizing... Why? We finally see some positive news and you guys rip it apart? Who the heck cares about its size or material, a 12 year old is trying to make a difference. What have you guys done? Its absolutely astonishing how some people consciously choose to be part of a problem and then show it off with some rediculously uneducated and self absorbed comment
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Apparently you're an illiterate idiot. Nobody has criticized the kid, or the concept. The criticism was of the exaggeration in the description of the article. This dome was NOT built from trash, it was built from first use industrial materials. It was NOT designed by the kid, it was designed and built by an adult architect. The kid designed the little lumpy basketball sized thing at the beginning that was the basis for the finished product.

If you can't tell the difference between criticism of sloppy and inaccurate journalism, and criticism of the people referred to in the article, then there's really no point in talking to you. You're simply too stupid.

@47

Yeah! What you typed! I totally agree. I didn't read it!

Wow.

Lots of panties in a bunch, and I left my mad phat l33t wedgie skillz at home. Guess you fools got off easy today.

@49 i lol'd.

A temporary shelter for the homeless & disaster victims? Yeah kid, it's called a TENT. And it's actually more functional than some leaky modular geodesic dome.

He may have a future building tacky mod $10 million homes for hippies out to pasture in Cali.

What a sweet kid.

WHATS STOPPING THE HOMELESS FROM JUST STEALING A TENT?!?! EVER THINK OF THAT?!?!

stoopid kid.

bucky fuller did it better

Im homeless and i love it! hahaha, one day one of you will die and i will shit on your corpse! have a great day :)