I love living in the capital region, it’s where I’m from and where I’ll die, but every time this ad runs on TV it scares the beejezus out of me.
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September 26th, 2005
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Yes, it is scary, but we should be scared.
Not the out-of-your mind scared like when brain vapor-locks and seizes up.
No, rather, the kind of scared that motivates you to be ready with (1) 2 weeks of non-perishable food and drinking water (min 1 gallon per day for each person) (2) emergency supples (candles, lanterns, radio, extra batteries, tissue paper etc.) (3) First Aid kit and of, course, a plan to meet at some pre-designated location in the event you are separated from one another.
What really scares me is that they might aqctually be truthful when they say it’s not a matter of if, but when, the next major attack occurs.
I don’t think they’re referring to either terror – driven or natural disasters, if I read the images correctly.
I think it relates to crime or fire, or other more immediate emergencies: What do I do if I’m mugged? What if I’m on an elevator, when a building’s fire alarm goes off? What happens if my subway stalls on the tracks, and I’m in a wheelchair?
There are lots of reasons to plan. Firefighters children are taught at a very early age to look for all the fire exits when they’re out, whether it’s McDonald’s or the Multiplex.
Here’s an anti – mugging tip. If you’re going to “the city” (wherever that is, for you) to the Theater or a concert, and you’re worried about being mugged, get a money clip. In it, wrap a $20 bill around 5 or ten singles. If you are stopped by a mugger, when he asks you for money, go in your pocket, throw the clip towards him, to his left or right. He’ll be distracted by the sight of the money — then you can RUN! — preferably into traffic across the street, to attract attention to yourself.
Better to lose $30, than your life, and / or all your ID and credit cards.
“I don t think they re referring to either terror – driven or natural disasters, if I read the images correctly.”
You’re right Frank, except for the part where the narrator says at the beginning “if there were a natural disaster or a terrorist attack would you be ready?” What an idiot.
Where you stand a better than even chance of being flattened by a taxi or some lamebrain from the suburbs–oh, excuse me–exurbs who’s so terrified of being in the “big city” that he’ll perceive you as a threat and run your ass over.
Good plan, Frank.
Here’s an even better anti-mugging tip. Stay out of “the city.” Concerts and “the Theatre” are for liberals anyway. Stay home and count your MREs. Clean your weapons. Dig a secret shelter under the crawlspace of your house.
Prepare for the final days. Prepare.
frameone — I guess I didn’t hear that — does that make make me a deaf idiot?
Quaker — I guess you, like Mouse and Leo, have become reduced to commenting not on the thread, but on me.
I didn’t say run into cars. I said run into traffic. Only a liberal would choose to be run over rather then be mugged (it eliminates any possibilty of the mugger being arrested and convicted, if you end up dead, know what I mean?).
As for the rest, I guess you’ve run out of things to say about anything but me…
frameone: I’m sure Quaker doen’t need any defense, but he was referring to my weapons. Of course, I have none, I don’t have a house, and I’ve never even seen an MRE. I guess that makes you both idiots.
Welcome to the club
“Clean your weapons.”
How’s that Quakerism working for out for you there?
Our list, of course, ends with “and NEVER EVER EVER VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN.”
Frank –
Just suggesting that in the future you focus, pay attention, take it slower. It may help you reach sounder conclusions about a lot of things. Like say my joke to Quaker, as in a Quaker advocating you grab your guns is like, you know, anathema to what a Quaker would say. Get it? It’s like, um, ironic.
What “bad guys” are you referring to, Oliver?
The tens of thousands of Islamists that have been captured or killed?
Oh, I get it now. You must be referring to Bin Laden.
Because all good liberals know that when he is captured or killed, the war on terror is OVER.
And how many attacks have occured on our soil in the last 4 years?
Quaker I guess you, like Mouse and Leo, have become reduced to commenting not on the thread, but on me.
Frank;
You are like most people who demand to see the gnat shit embedded in the fly speck but refuse to answer simple questions with responses like “Well I just don’t know what you’re talking about. Could you clarify the nose on my face for me one more time please?
Cling to you’re “I’m so innocent, why attack me? routine if you want to remain with your current level of academic and intellectual honesty.
Leo — If they let you walk where you are — take a walk!
What is your problem?
Is it still bugging you that you didn’t pull off a “gotcha” on that disgorgement business (C’mon, Frank, answer my question, answer my question, will you, huh? huh?)
You don’t really think you raise the level of academics around here, do you?
frameone: That was a joke? Oooooh!
Frank
Eat your weasel sandwich walkin’., bonehead.
Retreat to the hedgehog hole you hide in when there is an issue that smokes out your patriot’s pantomime.
Hire a nurse to bleed your bloodless brakelines and purge the air from your hollow mantra. Free that rotting carcass from the bloating gases that envelop your psyche and let us all breathe some fresh air for a change
Yup.
As long as you’re playing McGruff the Crime Dog and handing out free “anti-mugging tips” that are more likely to get you killed than keep you safe–you’re fair game, pal.
Why kill Americans in America when you don’t even have to get on a plane to kill them right in Iraq? I shudder for the day when a lot of people die and your talking point is rendered completely inoperable, and a new one rises to take its place (”You see, we intended to have Los Angeles disappear in a mushroom cloud in order to lure the terrorists into our trap!”).
Leo: Rather eloquent. Pointless, jejune, and really unnecessarily nasty, but a tad eloquent. You have proved my point better than I ever could.
Quaker: As long as you have made it your mission in life to harass me, you, too, are fair game. Apparently the Quaker principles you sacrilegiously flaunt extend only to bashing the President (haven’t read Hebrews 13:17 since Sunday School, I guess).
I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, but this is the way you have chosen to treat me? So be it.
BTW: “Hire a nurse to bleed your bloodless brakelines” was my favorite, perhaps of all time. Contradictory colliding metaphors — terrific!
Frank, help us figure this out. You show up here, make inflammatory remarks, insult people and then start crying “you’re being mean to me!” when anybody throws it back at you.
Are you really that thin-skinned or is it just a tactic?
Quaker: Don’t even try it… First of all, I hardly attack anybody unprovoked. Ask Mouse. He went looking all over the place and found three examples.
I’m not thin – skinned. I didn’t say you were being mean to me; I said you spend more time attacking me than you do disputing what I say.
Interestingly, I haven’t heard one of you say you don’t do it. Just like you, leo and frameone and Mouse justify it.
That’s my last word on this. Now, let’s see how long it is before one of you flames me, unprovoked.
Frank, here’s the text of my original comment:
Which part of this is “about you”?