Fallout's Biggest Scam

If a nuclear apocalypse was incoming, would you trust a metal tube to save you? With mass hysteria ongoing in the 2050s, for some, the answer to that question would be yes. Pre-war, Americans were scared and looked to the government and private defense contractors to protect them. Where one company landed a lucrative contract called Project Safehouse, another company also wanted to make a bit of money. This is the story of Fallout's biggest scam, the Pulowski Preservation Shelter.

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[imnotfunny_]

it’s the perfect scam. when you find out it’s a scam, it’s too late.

[isaacschmitt]

A funny feature of the Fallout 4 models, if you actually climb inside them, that bottom plate is spring loaded, so they automatically close once you're inside. And once you're inside, they play ads for local businesses and franchises. For instance "when this blows over, why don't you pick up a cup of hot Joe at Slocum's Joe?" The ads are all hilarious because they imply that after the bombs finish laying waste to humanity, you'll be able to return to life as it was.

[InsanoDeedz]

I realized these were a scam when I used one in a rad storm in fallout 4

[hubertrozalski]

Imagine a glowing ghoul walking into the Pulowski's Company building and saying "I would like to file a complaint".

[robbieburns]

I always figured that the skeletons inside the shelters were people that died of starvation while cowering inside and too afraid to step outside yet. It's a sad end to people who hoped that these blue coffins would keep them safe.

[lucifersno.fan]

I always figured the "joke" of the shelters was that they didn't have any legitimate radiation protection which is why skeletons and occasionally ghouls would be found in them.

[personamithulu]

The preservation shelter is good for two good things however. Having goodies and a much needed break from combat. It may have been a scam but hey at least it was useful in the future.

[TheBHAitken]

This is one of those 'solutions' to avoid pitchforks. Every city knowing that they didn't have anywhere enough underground shelter probably called Pulowski for a "feel-good" answer to the public outcry. It's important to note that Pulowski wouldn't be collecting the cash from these, they would be sold as vending-type machines for the city to place, maintain and collect from. Sold on fear, cities asked for them to be installed.

[ChaosDarkie]

I'll never forget my first encounter with that tube. It was my very first time playing Fallout 4, and everything turned green and I had no idea what was going on, but I heard my rads spiking every time lightning struck, so I hid inside a nearby tube and closed the door... only to keep accruing rads because the damn things do absolutely nothing except sing you a jingle when the door closes. 0/10 would not recommend, I'm now a ghoul.

[joshbarber]

I love the irony that Mr Pulowski was more than likely in a vault due to the wealth he never even got to receive, so whilst trying to get rich he probably fell to one of the experiments of his biggest rivals

[northernnightmare]

The pulowski shelters would be a great canon way to start a Fallout protagonist as a ghoul. Like your character took shelter in one, passed out and woke up a couple hundred years later as a ghoul.

[weoffthat]

Imagine... fallout 5.. you wake up after a nuclear war to find out you survived only because of a Pulowski shelter..

[kadewiedeman]

What's funny is that from the first time I fast one I always assumed these things had a lift system that lowered them underground so the top of it was flush with the ground, that way it could survive the initial blast. Finding out they don't is... Disappointing and obvious in hindsight.

[bastionunitb]

I like how there's always only one. Imagine seeing the bombs fall and a whole towns square worth of people rush to the shelter and only 1 person can get in

[germanpaul]

it's hilarious, that a literal fridge was able to protect a person more effectivly than that shelter🤣🤣

[appropinquo]

The fact that you have to pay exact change is hilarious in a way. Its like "Oh, theres a nuke going off? let me just fumble around in my pocket for some quarters to put in this thing."

[hotlavatube]

I wonder if the execs at Pulowski believed in their product enough to use it in the end or if they bought their own Vault-Tec shelter.
There is a use for these shelters though. I still remember The Wanderer's #8 episode of Permadeath difficulty where he steps into one at ~6m, turns around and then was shocked to realize he was trapped by a bunch of supermutants. He quickly closed the door. As he's quivering inside and browning his pants in the shelter, he hears the sounds of many explosions and bullets outside. Eventually it quiets down and he steps out to discover there was some epic battle between the supermutants and Brotherhood of Steel and fortunately for him the BoS won.

[Spideysuperiorfoe]

Same universe where a child survived in a fridge for 210 year by the way

[gagaplex]

We keep finding a lot of well-preserved skeletons in them, to be fair.

[TroyBoyleAtheistAdvocate]

This was how Pulowski himself raised enough capital to afford his ticket. To Vault 11.