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Braydonn |
SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 12:58 AM EST
THE SCENARIO -Your friend has invited you to go to a fancy restaurant with him/her for their birthday! On the way to the restaurant you get stuck in a very large traffic jam. 10 minutes goes by and the traffic hasn't moved an inch! You pick up your phone to ring your friend, but as you do a sharp scream fills your ears. You look in the side view mirror to see a zombie attacking a lady five cars back from your own. Another zombie joins the quarrel and then another! Soon there are a group of 6 zombies attacking! The zombies finish up with the lady and start moving closer to your car! WHAT DO YOU DO? 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
Madurjafro |
1. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 2:25 AM EST
"THE SCENARIO -Get the **** out of my car and run in the opposite direction. infact I would have started running after seeing the first zombie. I'm pretty sure anyone else would do the same after cannibals start munching on some person. After I get some distance between them and me, I will plan my route around them and back the way I came, to my house where my supplies will be at and then go from there. Do you find this valuable? |
youngchris |
2. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 2:38 AM EST
i always have my springfeild xdm 9mm with 4 19 round mags and living in houston,tx this is a very likley scenerio tht i have thought about..... i would not shoot them the old ladys fucced and not my problem i would do my best 2 run home if i was 2 far i would find another street and shoot 2 kill a driver and do my best 2 make it home,. might sound fucced up but at tht moment it will be a dog eat dog world
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whitefang10 |
3. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 2:41 AM EST
Could I turn the car around on the nature strip/footpath? Do I have much gear in the car? etc. Scenarios need a fair amount of information.
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epic_epicness |
4. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 4:02 AM EST
step 1. grab my GHB and load upstep 2. work my way to the trunk from the back seat step 3. load up whats in the trunk step 4. contact the wife for a ride and advise her to mow down youngchris on her way to pick me up in the deuce (dog eat dog world right?) step 5. load the deuce to capacity (8 ppl) and head home. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
Sullivan714 |
5. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 4:40 AM EST
If 10 minutes has gone by, then I can't be too far away from home. I have an aluminum baseball bat in my trunk. I grab that, and try to avoid the zombies by dodging them. I make my way home and if any zombies get in my way, BATTER UP :)
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Braydonn |
6. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 8:03 AM EST
"Could I turn the car around on the nature strip/footpath? Do I have much gear in the car? etc. Scenarios need a fair amount of information. "I will remember for the next one of these I post, except you would have whatever gear you have in your car usually. Do you find this valuable? |
Markthegenius |
7. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 8:25 AM EST
"WHAT DO YOU DO?"I'd follow these crucial steps to ensure survival. Step 1- Get out of car Step 2- Walk round to back of car, open boot Step 3- Remove hockey stick from said boot Step 4- Intervene in zombie attacks where plausible. Laugh maniacally where apropriate. Step 5- Either go and collect friend, or go straight home and get better weapons. Step 6- Partake in merry slaughter of the undead, accompanied by the days flavour of Heavy Metal 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
JunkCollector |
8. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 2:44 PM EST
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If I can't turn around or push my way out of the traffic, I would:1. Reach into console and take the flash light, multi tool, 2 spare Keltec P11 10 round mags., and cell phone, {I carry my P11 loaded with 2 spare 10 round mags. on me everywhere but when I go to school}. 2. Grab get home bag from back seat of Jeep, {full list on profile}. 3. Flip seat down and grab the 32 inch crow bar behind my tool box and fill pack with as many 1 liter bottles of water as will fit, (probably 3 or 4 - making 6 or 7 liters of water total). 4. Get some where I can think, decide on a "safe spot" that is closest (home, a friends house, one of my storage sheds, or were I can get another vehicle). 5. Walk my way to the "safe spot" that I chose, avoiding crowded areas and trying to stay out of trouble. 6. When I get to a safe place, lock it down the best I can and wait out the initial slaughter. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
chitoryu12 |
9. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 3:02 PM EST
All I'll be carrying in this case is my wallet, phone, and a length of paracord in the trunk. Not exactly survival tools.If I can't manage to get my car out of the jam, ditch it and start running in the opposite direction of the death. After a bit I'll make a wide circle back to my house. Do you find this valuable? |
x-wolfhunter |
10. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 3:47 PM EST
Well, in my car I have the following that might be useful in this situation:
I say the atlas because if I'm caught in a traffic jam, I'm nowhere near my house, and therefore should take the atlas with me. I would've begun to act far before the zombies had finished with the woman behind me, so here is what I would do based on that:
If I can manage to do all that, I would basically find a car, siphon some gas into it (Full tank, if possible) and then make my way back to my house. Do you find this valuable? |
Zee-Man |
11. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 5:44 PM EST
Having already identified the potential choke points I know which way Im headed at any point of my work day. 1) Immediate escape: My son will grab the 8 lb sledge, Ill grab the first section of the chimney chisel (a chisel mounted on 6ft of 3/4" black pipe, combine sections for a 24ft chisel). We will apply rule # 17 while we go on foot back to the shop. 2) Supply: Get the UEV and then pop home (< 1 mile) to grab our BOBs and E4s. Load up the UEV and head on to the BOL. UEV already has stuff in it (follow link from my profile) so all we need to do is avoid the choke points between home and the BOL. 3) Procede to BOL: If choke points are unavoidable we have plans to get past them either in the UEV or on foot. Will hate to leave the UEV, but that cost has already been counted. Do you find this valuable? |
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x-wolfhunter |
12. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 6:26 PM EST
"Having already identified the potential choke points I know which way Im headed at any point of my work day.Like we've all memorized the Zombieland rules . . . Psh, what do you take us for? Losers? Anywho, sounds reasonably good. No worse than what I plan on doing. Do you find this valuable? |
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Zee-Man |
13. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 8:54 PM EST
"Like we've all memorized the Zombieland rules . . .I gots dem ons mah profile if you need a refresher : P Do you find this valuable? |
Sharpie41 |
14. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 9:11 PM EST
Well, I hope to build myself a "truck shotgun" so what I would do is grab that from the backseat, (also want to make an "urban BOB/GHB" so I'd grab that, and GTFO of there.
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nightcreeper78 |
15. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 16 2012, 9:26 PM EST
You guys should check into some technical driving courses. For starters, if you're leaving less than one car length in front of you in congested traffic, you are setting yourself up for disaster, not just undead danger, but bandits and carjackers. Maintain a situational awareness not just in front of you, but 360 degrees and several cars away. Turn down the radio and stay off the phone. You already have a several thousand pound weapon at your immediate disposal, just remember to ram with the rear end of the vehicle, a Reese hitch is a good investment. Protect your radiator serpentine and all the accessories on the front of your engine from damage from collision. Always ram another vehicle in it's lightest point, in it's rear end. Even a larger more powerful vehicle can be defeated by a smaller one, simply by driver tactics.
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epic_epicness |
16. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 17 2012, 2:44 AM EST
"You guys should check into some technical driving courses. For starters, if you're leaving less than one car length in front of you in congested traffic, you are setting yourself up for disaster"this is not always possible because people WILL fill that space with a car. Besides, if you are on a bridge or near a runnoff the barriers void out the chance for a tactical escape. Sometimes the only thing you can do is pop smoke and lay down cover.... thats why my GHB has four M18 whites in it. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
StrykerPez |
17. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 17 2012, 3:11 AM EST
"You already have a several thousand pound weapon at your immediate disposal, just remember to ram with the rear end of the vehicle"The first good answer I've heard! Why is everyone so damn eager to abandon 2-5 thousand pounds of air-conditioned comfort and internal combustion power? Walk? With freakin ZOMBIES OUTSIDE? No, thanks. I've always got at least a half tank of gas. Even in really bad traffic I leave enough room to be able to pull forward, and slam back into the car behind me, and then whip out. I've never seen a traffic jam so bad my little UEV couldn't ride two wheels up on the curb and GTFO. Sure I might not make it all the way home... but to give up so easy... Tsk, tsk tsk. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
John_234 |
18. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 17 2012, 4:11 AM EST
"The first good answer I've heard!Seeing as you've lived in California, I think you're ignoring how bad traffic jams on a highway can be. Granted, most of them rarely take place on a bridge or place without some exit route, but have you really been in a traffic jam where you would reliably be able to shove through other cars to bust out? You're not always sitting on the outside lane, dude, and people don't just sit there if you ram them. Plus, if it's a contained accident, you have all sorts of criminal charges on your hands. Me, I'd use a weapon if available to deal with the threat - if I look around and it's only those six zeds in near view, why not stop the threat? If there's obviously more, I'd try to break out or grab all my stuff and run. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
FrankLeeDeRainged |
19. RE: SCENARIO - TRAFFIC JAM!
Jan 17 2012, 7:04 AM EST
Not got much to contribute to this as 10 minutes away from my home puts me less than halfway down the mountain track and traffic is . . . sparse to non existent. Normally I'm moving on two wheels so traffic jams happen to other people ; ) but the cars I own all have a 2ft long 1" socket spanner extension in the map pocket. This is a handy little thing small enough to use inside the car (for getting out should the doors be jammed) heavy enough to do serious cranial damage, but most of all it's deniable! As in "No officer I didn't set out with intent to cause harm" _ Do you find this valuable? |
