i have an overactive imagination and too much time on my hands
has anyone else actually worked out a strategy for escaping their house with loved ones/valuable possessions/teddy bears were a fire to start?
(ladyintheradiator, Mon 12 May 2008, 17:34, 13 replies)

No
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( KISS.ME.WHERE.I.POO Signed the sex offenders register on, Mon 12 May 2008, 17:35, closed)

no, but
what's yours?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Mon 12 May 2008, 17:36, closed)

Yeah...
Put on leather jacket.
Put on some shoes.
Exit bedroom.
Turn left onto landing.
Open tortoise viv.
Put tortoise in inside right jacket pocket.
Open lizard tank.
Put lizard in inside left pocket. Zip it up.
Run to front door.
Open front door.
Grab bass case from by door.
Exit.
Be alive.
( Cawl, Mon 12 May 2008, 17:38, closed)

When I was little, yes.
I had my valuables all in one bag. Presumably if I forgot the bag, I lost EVERYTHING.
( Bats, Mon 12 May 2008, 17:41, closed)

I'm a bit concerned about that.
When we had new windows fitted to our (little, one bedroom) old house, we were told that building regs dictated that one of our windows must open enough to provide an escape route in case of fire. Good idea thought I. I'd hate to choose between frying in my bedroom or cutting myself to ribbons by breaking a window in order to jump out (and probably break my legs on landing, knowing my luck!)

We moved into a bungalow (one storey house for you 'merkins). Woohoo, no more fears about a death defying leap from the flames. That is except one external door is on the front of my house and the other is on the side. None of the bedroom or bathroom windows are climb-out-able unless you smash out the big bits. If we have a fire in the living room or kitchen (where else would it be?) we're fucked.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 12 May 2008, 17:51, closed)

No, but I do plan against velociraptors.

( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 12 May 2008, 18:10, closed)

not really
although i have recently updated my zombie survival/escape plan
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 12 May 2008, 18:18, closed)

I updated my zombie escape plan
when I moved into my new place. The rear gardens are not as secure as my old flat as there is a side access point two houses down and only low fences which a zombie could fall over, or, if in large number, which they eventually would be of course, they could knock down. I keep spare bits of timber, a large selection of screws and a fully charged cordless drill that would allow me to seal up the passage against zombie intrusion.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 12 May 2008, 19:32, closed)

zombies
seriously, there should be country-wide defense plans for zombie attacks, do you think there are any?
For a year i always had a big plank of wood by my door in case of zombie/terrorists/burgular/vampire/evillittlegirlgoaststhatarereallyscary attacks.
All the doors and windows in the house are relativly new and very strong, except the upstairs big window door things, but thats where i would hold the line.

1. Block the only staircase in the house with a sofa.
2. Open the big doors and drag the other sofa to block the balcony stairs.
3. Keep the zombies back with a mixture of moltov cocktails, paintball gun and sticks with nails in them.

Perhaps this would make a good QOTW....
(Procrastinate now! It's not opposite day!, Mon 12 May 2008, 20:14, closed)

*hopes*
for ZOMBIE SURVIVAL PLAN QOTW!

Procrastinate, eventually you'd make a piece of board with nails in so big it'd kill us all!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 12 May 2008, 20:44, closed)

@procrastinate
never use fire to deal with zombies unless it is your absolute last resort. Flaming zombies don't die, they just move around burning more stuff. You need a long pointed stick or preferably spear. Then you get up somewhere high where they can't climb, such as up your blocked or destroyed stair case and take them out from above. Maximum zombie kills to risk ratio.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 12 May 2008, 20:47, closed)

Zombies
If they're nothing but animated rotting flesh, then surely ripping them apart would do the trick.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 12 May 2008, 22:11, closed)

i buy flatpack furniture
safe in the knowledge that i could dismantle it in a matter of seconds and then use bits of it to barricade my doors and windows against zombie attacks.
i'm going to suggest zombie defence plans as a QOTW subject now. click on it if you want to tell your tale of zombie readiness.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 12 May 2008, 22:35, closed)