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I wonder what ever happened to the Four Corners ‘survivalists’…

What? You dont know that story? Ah, well, its an interesting story with a few lessons for those willing to look past the obvious.

Succinctly, three buddies fancied themselves survivalists. They bought all the accoutrements, set out caches in the desert, spent plenty of time out in the sticks, etc, etc. One day they stole a water truck (yes, a water tanker truck) and when confronted by the cops, started shooting. Wound up killing the one cop and then they disappeared into the desert. The cops, naturally, responded in kind. Dogs couldnt handle the heat, thermal imaging was useless against sun-baked rocks in the background, and the trackers were stymied with simple foils. Time goes by and one day some guy breaking for lunch finds himself staring down the wrong end of a .308 sniper gun. Manages to escape and calls the cops. Another cop gets shot. This time, they manage to surround the bad guy who takes his own life. Time goes by. Many months later hunters stumble across a skeleton clad in camo. Ankle is broken, gunshot to the head. Gear and guns missing. Specualtion? He was injured in the escape after the water truck incident, busted his ankle, his buddies shot him and took his gear.

Present day: one of these guys is still unaccounted for. No sign of him has been found, although in the process of combing the desert the law *did* find other peoples caches and even an underground hidden bunker.

If youre curious, search using names “mason mcvean pilon” and read the various accounts.

For the record, Im also curious about Eric Rudolph’s story about how he managed to hide out for several years before getting caught……..

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  1. 4 corners

    They violated the single most basic principle of being a survivialt in the time before the world ends…Shut the fuck up about it and keep a lower than snake shit profile.

    They stole the truck in the middle of the afternoon in the middle of the week, got tagged for speeding, “ran” from the patrol officer and got forced into a showdon. For which they were able to get away, but then one of them raised their dumb little head and confronted the hunter. I am guessing that the third guy had enough brain cells to shut the fuck up and don’t raise your head up where it can get cut off. Either that our he took the combined resources and is surviving on a beach in meaxico somewhere.

    (don’t I remember that the guy with the broken ankel was shot by one of his buddies, not suicide?)

    Rudolf had the right idea, shut the fuck up and live minimally, ‘couse, the rumor I heard was that when they finally cought him he wasn’t to upset as he had been living a really shitty existence. the lack of advacne planning and the need to move rfrequently had him living on absoultely nothing, with nothing.

  2. Quite familiar with the story. Robert Mason was the younger brother of a friend of mine. We weren’t terribly surprised when Robert turned up dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, though I sometimes wonder if he wasn’t forced into it for wanting to leave and turn himself in.

  3. 4 Corners

    interesting… does anyone remember the story of the WWII bomber that went astray and crashed in the Sahara? I’ve been told that our Desert Survival course was built off of the notes found on one of the bodies.

  4. The website at http://www.worldfreeinternet.net/news/nws117.htm has a well slanted reprot of the event. The reprot is dereived from CNN and AP. Surprising allot of information on the Internet regarding this.

    Even Mark Potok and our fans at the SPLC had a comment regarding the Four Corners Militia—and its sinister undertone.

    I bet that if a comprehensive review of federal investigations of criminal acts were performed, the success to “still under investigation” ratio would be low, with a cluster of successes being around bank robbery and police homicides—or those crimes most likely to undermine the economy and legitimacy of federal law enforcement.

    Failure to plan is planning to fail. Can ya really go wrong with a good plan, carefully prepapred and tested until it doesn’t fail?

  6. wanna dissapear?

    just do it quietly with no fanfare or parades. many people have quietly moved about by staying to a plain joe profile, telling nobody where, when, or whatever else their reasons or excuses to just dissapear; into a forest, desert, or big city. too many others just had to do the idiot dance and get tracked and found. fiqure it out yet? Wildflower

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