Bruce Beach

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'''Bruce Beach''' {{lived|1934|2021}}<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/12/04/doomsday-preppers-bruce-beach-interview_n_2237404.html 'Doomsday Preppers': Bruce Beach On Prepping For Apocalypse And Being Called 'Crazy'] by Annette Bourdeau (12/04/2012 11:35 EST | Updated 12/04/2012 11:35 EST) ''[[Huffington Post]]''.</ref> was a [[Survivalism|survivalist]] from the town Horning's Mills in [[Fun:Ontario|Ontario]], [[Canada]] who predicted a [[Doomsday scenario|doomsday]] date, December 2002. It didn't go so well.

==Ark Two==
[[File:Ark Two.jpg|thumb|165px|Ark Two with its numerous buses. The name makes an allusion to [[Noah's Ark]] from the [[Bible]].<ref name=website/>|left]]

Intended to survive the coming nuclear [[Armageddon]], the '''Ark Two''' is a {{wpl|DIY}} fallout shelter built by Bruce Beach some 100km north-west of {{wpl|Toronto||,}} [[Canada]].<ref name="history2"/> It was constructed from 1980 until 1985 and is composed of 42 buried school buses.<ref name="history1"/>

===Controversy===
Throughout its history, Ark Two sparked legal conflicts from the Canadian government; the shelter was built without a permit because Beach failed to get one:<ref name="history1"/>

{{quotebox|The biggest problems in building a shelter are political and bureaucratic. The project has not been favorably received by the local and provincial governments. There is a [[psychology]] against shelters and the general opinion is that anyone who builds one - is crazy. There is an old saying that you can't fight city hall, and after many years of trying to get a building permit we went ahead and built the shelter anyway because we felt that it was a matter of life and death.}}

Beach also elaborated on the numerous court battles he went through:<ref name="history1"/>

{{quotebox|Government can cause one endless misery after another and we had to go to court over 30 times to contest wrongful orders that the shelter be destroyed. The government spent over $250,000 dollars fighting us and most people simply do not have the resources, tenacity, or comprehension to endure such battles. By 1990, when I stopped counting, it had been subject to over 30 court and commission appearances and that number has greatly increased in the years that followed. Legal costs mounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars.}}

===''Penn & Teller: Bullshit!''===

Ark Two is featured in an episode of ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'', but it wasn't filmed because it was locked down by the fire department for being an [[Irony|unsafe fire hazard]].<ref name="bullshit"/> Bruce Beach made an arse of himself by predicting the end of the world sometime in December 2002; the episode aired in January 2003.<ref name=Doomsayers/>

==Writings==
===Books===
* ''Society After Doomsday''
* ''TRIAD Individual Networking: Preparedness For Disastrous Times''

===Other pieces===
* Reconstruction of Society after Nuclear War<ref name="recon"/>
* You will survive Doomsday<ref name=Doomsday/>

==See also==
*[[Noah's Ark]]

==External links==
*[http://webpal.org/SAFE/aaaarktwo/index.htm Beach's website] ([[Haig's Law]] seems to apply)
*[https://www.facebook.com/SAFE.Arktwo Ark Two's FaceBook page]
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/BruceBeachArkTwo Ark Two's YouTube]
*{{wpa|Ark Two Shelter}}

==References==
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<ref name="bullshit">''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'', episode 1.04, ''End of the World''</ref>

<ref name=Doomsday>http://webpal.org/SAFE/aaasurvival/books/doomsday/index.htm</ref>

<ref name=Doomsayers>''The End-of-the-World Delusion: How Doomsayers Endanger Society'' by Justin Deering (2012) iUniverse. ISBN 1475913559. p. 134</ref>

<ref name="history1">http://webpal.org/SAFE/aaaarktwo/history.htm</ref>

<ref name="history2">Jarvis, Carolyn (host) (February 25, 2012). "[http://www.globalnews.ca/16x9/video/end+of+the+world+how+to+survive+armageddon/video.html?v=2202091152&p=7&s=dd#video End of the world: How to survive Armageddon]". 16:9. Season 4. Episode 14. Global Television Network.</ref>

<ref name="recon">http://www.webpal.org/reconstruction.htm</ref>

<ref name=website>http://webpal.org/SAFE/aaaarktwo/index.htm</ref>
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