Brexit Party multimillionaire invents 'bin pods' for rough sleepers by joining wheelie bins together

[NoXion]

I suppose it's cosy till the condensation builds up, then it's damp and dangerous suffocation time.

I once had cause to sleep in a giant recycling bin that was half full of flattened cardboard boxes. All that cardboard helped keep things dry, and the lid wasn't a tight fit so I was good for air, but it was still a bitterly cold and rather cramped night.

I didn't sleep well, but I slept better than I did on the park bench, off of which I was harassed by some Nigerian.

 

[NoXion]

Durble purst.

 

[skyscraper101]

"Mr Dawe came up with the idea after building a prototype for a single person car, also from a bin."

I'd love to see that one. He sounds like a right loon.

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[Saul Goodman]

"Mr Dawe came up with the idea after building a prototype for a single person car, also from a bin."

I'd love to see that one. He sounds like a right loon.

The one to the right.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

The one to the right.

Thats clearly a bike

 

[dylanredefined]

Brilliant idea. Or I don't know just find them a proper place to live you fucking wazzock.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

He's a cunt.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Is he clever enough to find a cost effective way to dispose of the executed bodies of shit like himself ?

 

[Marty1]

Sleeping in a bin is what homeless people want.

Multimillionaire invents 'bin pods' for the homeless by joining two wheelie bins

Peter Dawe, who ran as the Brexit Party candidate in the General Election, has crafted a pod out of two bins that he hopes will alleviate the rough sleeping problem

www.mirror.co.uk

What an absolute twat!

 

[elbows]

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The origin of his invention wasnt actually as a pod for the homeless.

Rather, he was trying to help Boris Johnson with the dilemma of how to be found dead in a ditch, without getting any mud on his nice suit. Once the ditch plan was ditched, he repurposed his work.

Personally I'd have left the second bins wheels on and repurposed the whole thing into a single passenger pod transport/sinclair C5 red nose edition tribute.

 

[Marty1]

We really must be reaching the end of civilisation when a multi millionaire is designing wheelie bin pods for the homeless to take shelter in

 

[Teaboy]

I still don't understand why a man is climbing into a bin or how he thinks he can invent something that already exists. What will he develop next? The banana?

Also why is he demo-ing it on what looks like a wet and muddy verge next to a cycle path? Everything about this story is baffling. If I was family I'd be keeping a very close eye on him from now on.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I don't really understand, is this a way of using existing bins if no alternatives and it's fucking freezing or are these supposed to be purpose built bins ('pods') specifically for people to kip in, in which case wtf

 

[elbows]

I don't really understand, is this a way of using existing bins if no alternatives and it's fucking freezing or are these supposed to be purpose built bins ('pods') specifically for people to kip in, in which case wtf

Ahh, I think this earlier story what I did just stumble on helps put this in context:

A tech tycoon who fears the imminent breakdown of British society has created a extraordinary 'survive and thrive' farm where 100 people are able in live in safety.

Entrepreneur Peter Dawe, 65, fears climate change, political unrest and/or famine pose a real threat to the future of civilised society in this country.

So the former tech entrepreneur has bought a 1,500 acre farm in Norfolk and is transforming into a 'self-sustainable' community for like-minded 'survivalists.'

Inside tycoon's 'survival farm' as he prepares for the collapse of society

Those living on the farm would pay a subscription fee

www.cambridge-news.co.uk

 

[Teaboy]

Right, so his wheels have come off basically.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Blimey

 

[elbows]

Right, so his wheels have come off basically.

They must have come off some time ago, as he bought the farm decades ago and reckons he has had the idea for 15 years. At the speed he is going with this project he is lucky things didnt collapse in the meantime!

 

[Proper Tidy]

On the plus side, at least there is one brexit party person taking climate change seriously

 

[equationgirl]

If I was his family I think I would be encouraging him to see professional help promptly.

 

[8ball]

If I was his family I think I would be encouraging him to see professional help promptly.

I thought his "Apocalypse Farm" looked kind of eccentric with a kind of "glad he doesn't live near me" sort of charm, but this bin thing is like something, I dunno, I don't even know if Chris Morris would produce this sort of thing as a prank.

 

[equationgirl]

Surely it's also shit because if it's rolled over onto the hinges the user is trapped inside. It does actually have the potential to become a coffin.

 

[Chilli.s]

Surely it's also shit because if it's rolled over onto the hinges the user is trapped inside. It does actually have the potential to become a coffin.

That's right, there would be a little gap to scream out of but unless you could tip it onto its side you'd be stuck.

 

[Rob Ray]

You've got to admire the entrepreneurial spirit of being told "I wish you'd just get in the bin" for years and coming up with this. Anything can be the root of an idea eh.

 

[equationgirl]

That's right, there would be a little gap to scream out of but unless you could tip it onto its side you'd be stuck.

And those bins are heavy. Two of them joined together would be difficult if not impossible to get out of.

 

[8ball]

And those bins are heavy. Two of them joined together would be difficult if not impossible to get out of.

Comes over as pretty unsafe to me on several levels.

 

[Chilli.s]

And the "inventor" gets more free publicity than he could have dreamt of.

 

[elbows]

He’s apparently bolted the hinges together so it swings up and sawn a hole on either side of one of them so you can see out of it.

Ah yes, the hole seems to be a later feature that is not present in the original video that many of the pictures are from.

Luckily some media feature the later effort where the hole is present. And quotes, oh the quotes!

He added: “It is a Marmite design. Some people think it’s absolute genius, some people are actually horrified. ‘Oh you can’t put homeless people in rubbish bins’, they say. My argument is I’m not putting homeless people in there, they are choosing it.

Asked whether he had tried sleeping in one of the pods himself, Mr Dawe replied: “I have laid in one for some tens of minutes.

“It would be nice if they were slightly bigger, but that’s what wheelie bins are.

Mr Dawe said: “What I would like to see is someone funding the design of a purpose-built sleep pod that we could deploy at £100 a unit that has solar panels, windows and an interior
light and was easy to use. But let’s just test whether rough sleepers want to huddle down in a plastic pod.”

Entrepreneur Peter Dawe creates ‘sleeping bin’ for the homeless

'A Marmite idea' - millionaire businessman says people are divided on his £100 bin shelters for rough sleepers

www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk

 

[Teaboy]

And the "inventor" gets more free publicity than he could have dreamt of.

To what aim though. Maybe he'll get rich?

He's a nutjob.

 

[Chilli.s]

To what aim though. Maybe he'll get rich?

He's a nutjob.

I couldn't be bothered to dig into his other schemes and contrivances but the one article I did read said there were many.