Posted on 12/07/2008 8:09:30 AM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Thank you very much for your informative and helpful information. I remember when I was first married and living on the Upper East Side, going into Agata and Valentina: saying wow, what a fancy place, with fancy prices - walked in hand with fifty dollars and walked out with just five things. I have come along way and as usual fellow freepers knock common sense and reality into this jaded New Yorker./Just Asking - seoul62.......
I agree. That's why I moved the gold coins and cash out of there and put them underground.
“Yeah but he is in one place. That fortress idea doesn’t work forever. Somehow, all those people have to get fed and making 10,000 people dig a latrine for you isn’t going to work.
No matter how safe you think you are in your castle, you are not. You are at the mercy of the mob. All of the survivalist literature(see Frugal Squirrel) is based on the premise that any intruding mobs are small in nature. They all realize that a strong concerted effort is going to succeed.”
I think that you take the movies too seriously. America has suffered through a lot of catastrophes but I’m not aware of anything in the American reality that supports the Hollywood visions.
Do you envision warlords and fortresses with 10,000 laborers and such, should we be stockpiling high school shoulder pads, and hockey masks, and black leather clothes?
“strike anywhere” kitchen matches”
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I have a few boxes of these stashed.
They are getting VERY hard to find.
I was just thinking about the optimum survival strategy. Safety in numbers. For example, a cul-de-sac of half-dozen homes ally themselves into a survival group.
If you're lucky one guy will have special forces experience, another will be a mechanic, another a doctor.
The lawyers can all die! LOL!
I occasionally had problems with them in my shed.
Now I use these bars called “Just One Bite”, and man, oh man, them rats and mice are toast!
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Not to mention 98% of “the mob” will be running the other way with big brown spots in their pants about 3 seconds after the first .223 or .308 round goes whizzing past their ear!
They’ll run good! Real, real good!
I’m not sure if they stopped making them or they are just hard to find. I’ll search online and see.
“Do you envision warlords and fortresses with 10,000 laborers and such, should we be stockpiling high school shoulder pads, and hockey masks, and black leather clothes?”
You forgot the backless chaps, mohawks and plenty of pink, yellow, green, and red dye for the wigs.
Oh, and the motorcyles...
My response wasn’t directed at you, but I’ll answer you anyway.
>>”The people with the guns get the food.”<<
How about this? “The people with the guns GET TO KEEP THEIR FOOD.”
Here’s a warning: Better bring more than a dozen of your boyfriends if you want a meal from us. I will shoot you dead on the spot without prejudice if you try to overtake my house by force.
You’re a big talker for such a little man.
I like it.
3 boxes for 4 bucks here:
http://www.gunnyssurplus.com/strike-anywhere-matches.html
Thank you, ansell12. Hopefully this type of situation will never happen and I will not have to eliminate these scum-suckers one by one.
To be fair, I really wasn’t ‘snowed in’ for 6 weeks. We only got a couple feet, but I have a long uphill driveway that stayed frozen for 6 weeks and I wasn’t about to shovel that thing. I did it once and I decided staying inside was better:<)
Not mine, I saw it on another site, but it stuck with me.
BTW, that chart at #147 is downright scary. I’m thinking a good percentage of it might be a decline in goods shipped out of China, but even then, it’s still a pretty strong indicator of whats going on.
You can still get them but like gunpowder and primers, there is now a $26 hazardous materials fee unless you pick them up in person.
A Cabela’s store might be a good bet in the camping dept.
““Do you envision warlords and fortresses with 10,000 laborers and such, should we be stockpiling high school shoulder pads, and hockey masks, and black leather clothes?”
You forgot the backless chaps, mohawks and plenty of pink, yellow, green, and red dye for the wigs.”
LOL, the truth is that I think that most of us survivalist types love the idea of getting to act in a world where we can make our own rules of self defense.
When I see the men making the big production of protecting their neighborhoods after hurricanes I know that they are also having some fun getting to do guy stuff, and I wished I was there.
I do have some video of a neighborhood during the Rodney King riots where the men did not seem to be having fun.
A group of suburban looking types only had a couple of hand guns and baseball bats as they hid behind car barriers blocking their street, they had to contend with the gangsters that would cruise up (on film) that would see them in the street behind the barricades and move on, but another thing that was stressing the defenders was having to conceal their weapons from the cops when they came by or else they would lose them.
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