Survival skills

[waheed]

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http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/5312/Survival_Test_Are_you_ready

I survived but was injured.

[Forum Troll]

12/17 Wheelchairs can be sexy, too...

[adam]

I survived but I'm badly maimed. Some of the answers are whack though. It asks do you do A, B, or C? And the answer is do A...but do B and C too.

[gadgetguy]

12/17 - I'm shark bait. But I'm not worried, we don't have them in Lake Michigan.

[Treebeard]

10/17, maimed for life, but I got all the tornado ?'s correct, which is good since I live in a tornado valley state

[lordsmurf]

Some of those answers are pretty crappy.

I disagree with most of the dog ones. If a dog has made up his mind to attack, there isn't shit for you to do but minimize the damage or find an escape. If you're caught in his teeth, beat the shit out of the dog, try to crush its skull or break its ribs. I hate to be cruel to animals, but if it's you and me, I choose me. You weigh at least 2-3 times what it does, and you're equipped with big fists and big feet. Children and little women are pretty much screwed.

The tornado ones also can change depending on where you live. Crawling in a ditch won't do shit for you if you live in a flood area. Or if you have easy access to a straight shot highway, and better safty is down the road, hop in your car and get there ASAP.

[Noahtuck]

Some of those answers are pretty crappy.

I disagree with most of the dog ones. If a dog has made up his mind to attack, there isn't shit for you to do but minimize the damage or find an escape. If you're caught in his teeth, beat the shit out of the dog, try to crush its skull or break its ribs. I hate to be cruel to animals, but if it's you and me, I choose me. You weigh at least 2-3 times what it does, and you're equipped with big fists and big feet. Children and little women are pretty much screwed.

Ya know what ? I did it and the stuff i have actually done to fend off dog's comming in for the kill were all wrong on that thing....

I was like whatever!!! damned if im gonna lay down and curl up and let the ****** tear me up, might work for bears but i'll be damned if i'm gonna do it for a dog... eye gouge, crush the fuckers throat, please....

My brother in law was attacked by a dog, he was coming at us in between a fence and a garage wall, had to walk single file, this big as shepard came around the front of the garage full bore, the guy in front of me jumped the fence, i just put my arm up and took stance to kill the dog had no time to jump the fence and nowhere to go, my BIL was behind me freaking out!!!!!!!! the damn dog ran right past me and jumped on his as
I've had to deal with more than a few crazy dogs in my life and i've always walked away unscathed & the winner 8)
And i sure the hell never rolled up into a ball

And i always thought getting under an overpass was a good idea because the tornado would usually follow the ground and go up and over it ?? but i agree with getting as low and as far away as fast as possible

[ZAPPER]

I better stay out of the water! I missed two about the sharks and would have looked for the life raft rather than swim away from the plane.

About the shark attack, I thought that it said to gouge the eyes? I have heard that the eyes are such a small target and that they actually roll them back during an attack so that this is a bad idea. ? I have been told to make a ball out of yourself and keep your arms and legs in. Go figure. Gills was my best guess, any punching or kicking in the water is really slowed down by the watter and you don't really have the good leverage or form that you would standing on the ground.

In a plane crash in the middle of the ocean, I am getting something to help me float. If I am in good enough condition to swin away from the plane I might be able to swim under the oil fire on the surface.

I was a paperboy for a long time and I would like to think that I can take on any one dog, but be advised, two dogs or more and you got problems! You had better be able to disable them quick like and I don't mean disable them in a nice way. I am talking broken spines and jaws, soft tissue damage does not slow down an attacking dog.

I would charge or stomp my foot at any dog advancing on me and that lack of eye contact crap is for people that make themselves victoms. Dog, man or bear, when they see the kill in my eyes they all move backwards or I will be able to grab or kick them if they don't. I am not above the pick up something to beat them with it option either.

Tornados are fun until the airborn debris start to get close. The trouble is the the stuff is coming at 300 mph and from any direction. At less than a half or quarter mile it may be time to hit the ditch, but anymore and you could possibly out drive one comming right at you. It could change course in that added time and never get any closer or you could get to a better ditch or over pass. I have seen footage of people under a bridge and it looked like a goog place to be. As far as a flash flood filling the ditch you are hiding in during a tornado, well you must have really pissed off the big guy if you are having that kind of day! 30 seconds to a minute and a half for a tornado to pass by is my experience. Now them 5 mile wide jokers that you guys get in Texas may take a little longer and that could I guess give the ditch time to fill with water. But I told you all three answers that I got wrong involved water, so what do I know?

[gadgetguy]

If you're caught in his teeth, beat the shit out of the dog, try to crush its skull ...

Bad advice. By all means kill the dog, but according to the animal control officer that took my neighbors dog after it attacked my son, preserve the head. The only means of testing for Rabies after the dog is dead is if the brain is intact. If you crush the skull and damage the brain, you have to go through a series of painful shots, even if you're pretty sure the dog didn't have rabies, just to be on the safe side.

(This was several years ago, so they may have discovered another way to test for rabies, but I haven't heard of it.)

[Jester700]

The problem with little quizzes like this are, there is LOTS more info you take in at the scene than they give you - some conscious, some instinctive. I was constantly thinking questions about the situations (especially involving other people) that, of course, the quiz didn't respond to.