And then

There’s this asshole!

Remember the story about the guy who appeared on an episode of “Doomsday Preppers” who said that his disaster plan was to use force against his neighbors to take what he and his family and friends needs to survive?

Turns out, that seems to be his modus operandi, though he’ll only be able to all that looting if he can get out of jail first, since he is a convicted felon who went on cable teevee and displayed his firearms collection.

During a November 2013 episode of the National Geographic Channel TV show “Doomsday Preppers,” Tyler Smith described his plans to commit armed robbery and was filmed loading and firing two rifles on his property in Buckley, Pierce County.

Though he may claim he was preparing for doomsday, there was one problem: Smith, 26, is a convicted felon, which makes him ineligible to possess firearms.

He was arrested Wednesday and booked on two counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.

“His stated plan was not to defend himself but to use weapons he illegally possessed, to rob his neighbors at gunpoint,” Sheriff Paul Pastor said in a news release. “Did he really think that this wouldn’t attract our attention?”

Smith was arrested without incident in Bonney Lake. He recently moved there from the farm where the episode was filmed in March 2013, the sheriff’s department said. Smith has one theft conviction and a conviction for a gross misdemeanor sex offense for communicating with a minor for immoral purposes.

And on the next episode of “When idiots attack!”

I have never got into the show, mostly because this guy seems to be typical of the caliber of folks I have seen when I sit through the couple of introductions I have watched. I saw one “prepper” who made sold “survival stoves”. And I am using the term “made” very loosley here.

I had just started my welding course and when I saw the welds on the chimney stack I almost cried. They were standard T-style welds and they were horrible, with slag boogers hanging all over everything. Sure they were around a cylinder, but damn. He probably made them with 6011 welding rod and a Harbor Freight A/C buzzbox, but he could have ground the damn things off, at the very least. And boy, was he proud of them.