Cops bust into prepper's survival bunker after a siege lasting less than a day

Twenty-two hours to be exact, says this report. It took Mr. Survivalist eight friggin' years to dig out and equip his redoubt in the hills of Washington state too. Presumably Mr. Survivalist intended this bunker to enable him to survive nuclear war, economic collapse, or whatever other form TEOTWAWKI takes.  But it took a police SWAT team under a day to bust inside. And according to the news story from the Seattle P-I the cops spent a large amount of that 22 hours surrounding the place and trying to get him to surrender.  Of course they did have to use explosives to enter and all, but still I would have expected this guy's own personally constructed Alamo to hold out a lot longer than that. Instead he just gave up and shot himself.

Preppers coming into the media spotlight sadly for them

The main-stream media is beginning to take note of the nascent "prepper movement". Naturally of course they dismiss preppers as kooks, nothing more than a "kinder, gentler" version of the survivalist types.  And why would they not? Nothing seriously ever goes wrong in the world of the big time media types and so they question/mock/ridicule them as to "why all the preparations" then? Which sure isn't true for the rest of us. The big-time media types see looming disaster as a news story to be covered; the rest of us, who would have to live through it, are looking for a way to ride it out as best we can. Therein lies the difference.