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What is it with poor trashy people and owning school buses?
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:17 am
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:17 am
Drive through any rural mountain area and every third house has an old school bus in the yard.
Why do people with not much money buy these things? What use do they have for them? I’ve always wondered this
Why do people with not much money buy these things? What use do they have for them? I’ve always wondered this
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Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:17 am to deltaland
redneck RV
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:18 am to deltaland
They can make great hunting camp houses FWIW
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:18 am to deltaland
Mobile meth lab
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:20 am to Bama and Beer
I get the hunting camp angle but I’m talking about ones who just leave them to rot in back yard
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:20 am to deltaland
Storage
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:20 am to deltaland
You don't see them a lot in Mississippi? I hunt near Iuka and every other yard has one half buried on the side of a hill to use as a tornado shelter.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:21 am to deltaland
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Drive through any rural mountain area and every third house has an old school bus in the yard.
Until you said mountain area, I was going to say they would used the bus as a Mardi Gras Party Bus with the top cut out and/or lifted to hand out while bar hoping waiting for the parade to start. Also, they have to add a super loud sound system to get that bass thumping.
In nonMardi Gras Weeks, it can also double as a party bus for trashy weddings.
This post was edited on 3/2/23 at 10:26 am
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:21 am to deltaland
Prior to hipsters buying them up to convert to RVs for youtube views you could pick up an old busted bus for super cheap, I'd imagine most were using them for storage.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:23 am to deltaland
A MS Delta dweller complaining about poor trashy mountain folks 
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:23 am to deltaland
Preppers like them, also they are designed for survivability in a rollover (I have no idea if this is true but heard it on an episode of Doomsday Preppers).
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:25 am to YOURADHERE
Mike Wolfe of American Pickers has stated in various ways over the years that seeing multiple school buses on a property was an encouraging sign.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:26 am to deltaland
I know a guy that was a federal agent. He told me that anytime they went to do a warrant for a rural property and it had an old school bus he automatically knew it was going to be a good one.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:27 am to deltaland
A school bus is just a makeshift home in waiting. You're gonna be behind and beholden if shite goes sideways. Don't be jealous, baw.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:31 am to deltaland
There was a chick in my parent's neighborhood that had an old school bus in her driveway. At one point she drove independently until the public and private school districts stopped contracting with individual drivers. Then she just let it sit in her driveway.
She got on the neighborhood FB page one day, losing her mind, because someone had called IPL on her for having this junky arse bus in her driveway. Threatened a bunch of neighbors by name, showed up on one's front porch (and had a gun pulled on her), etc.
Come to find out she had been feeding fricking raccoons and let them occupy the bus. When IPL came back out to inspect, they had to call animal control and they removed something like 30 racoons off the bus. It was nuts.
She got on the neighborhood FB page one day, losing her mind, because someone had called IPL on her for having this junky arse bus in her driveway. Threatened a bunch of neighbors by name, showed up on one's front porch (and had a gun pulled on her), etc.
Come to find out she had been feeding fricking raccoons and let them occupy the bus. When IPL came back out to inspect, they had to call animal control and they removed something like 30 racoons off the bus. It was nuts.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:32 am to BluegrassBelle
Probably planned on burying it to make a shelter, but the hole isn't finished yet.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:36 am to Tarps99
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ardi Gras Party Bus with the top cut out
It would break in half.
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:38 am to deltaland
they all secretly aspire to be the Partridge Family
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:42 am to deltaland
Here is the procession of the school bus purchase.
Gonna build a camper -> was more expensive than thought to do -> lets it sit till they “find time” -> battery fails-> won’t start -> use for storage.
Aside from that.. I have seen one, ONE, school bus to RV that was done well. Whole thing was sandblasted and painted, metal work done to take out school bus windows and put in RV ones, RV furniture inside and plumbing that was sourced from a fifth wheel that had been in an accident. Was a decent hunting rig.
Gonna build a camper -> was more expensive than thought to do -> lets it sit till they “find time” -> battery fails-> won’t start -> use for storage.
Aside from that.. I have seen one, ONE, school bus to RV that was done well. Whole thing was sandblasted and painted, metal work done to take out school bus windows and put in RV ones, RV furniture inside and plumbing that was sourced from a fifth wheel that had been in an accident. Was a decent hunting rig.
This post was edited on 3/2/23 at 10:43 am
Posted on 3/2/23 at 10:43 am to deltaland
Have you ever read the story of Bruce Beach's Ark 2?
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Since the early '80s, Bruce Beach has been secretly buying school buses and burying them underground in an undisclosed location, somewhere in rural Canada.
His strange project has drawn criticism, praise—and the intervention of law enforcement, and while it is not very well known, those who have heard of it can't help but have a strong opinion about it, one way or another.
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Starting in 1980, Bruce Beach began acquiring old school buses. Buying them for approximately $300 a piece, Bruce wasn't interested in their engines or their mobility, but rather in their solid, sage structures.
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After Bruce finished setting up the school buses in a tight formation in a large swath of his 12.5-acre property, he began the slow, difficult process of cutting their chassis and turning them into a massive, interconnected structure of winding corridors, rooms, storage spaces, and bulkheads.
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Finally, the initial construction of Bruce's vision was complete. He had built 10,000 square feet of a fortified bunker, capable of withstanding a nuclear blast—and of housing over 500 people within its underground walls.
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