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General Topics => Preparedness and Survival => Topic started by: Bunker on November 24, 2013, 06:13:46 PM
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Interesting DVM article..."5 Things People Say They Can or Would do in a Survival Situation – and Why They Won’t Based on Recent 3rd World Urban Survival Events (Bug Out on Foot, Drink Their Piss, Trade For Goods, Eat Someone, Defend Their House)". He also throws in "eat cat".
"After decades of studying, observing, experiencing and writing about everything Urban Survival, I have heard some serious fantasy about what people claim they would do during an Urban Survival situation. Not surprisingly most of this so-called ‘advice’ comes from people who have never been in a Urban Survival, ‘Fight or Die’ situation or have even stepped outside of the continental US with the exception of Bus Tours in their lives.
Most of the crazy shit I have heard comes from fake tough-guys, dudes who regurgitate stuff they have read on forums and keyboard commandos that make Bear Grills’s advice look reasonable. Having spent the past 10+ living, traveling and working in the 3rd world, I have seen people (including myself) survive the worst possible situations and do what they had to do to either survive or die.
From my experience, the current 3rd world is what the 1st world would be like after a prolonged ‘event’. That may be a natural disaster, civil war, overwhelming violent crime, financial meltdown or pandemics. In my opinion, the best place to study what people will or will not do when the SHTF in the 1st world, is to study what people in the 3rd world have and are currently doing to survive day by day."
Read More: http://www.deathvalleymag.com/2013/05/10/urban-survival-the-5-things/ (http://www.deathvalleymag.com/2013/05/10/urban-survival-the-5-things/)
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Interesting read. I agree that it would have to be a *prolonged* event to get that bad though