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What's your Plan A for a Zombie Outbreak?

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RedDeath5

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okay...i've thought this out a great deal, cuz my mind won't stop. fortunately for me, i live in a rather rural area. so in the event of an outbreak, i've got an advantage over those who live in large cities. another advantage i've got is military training, which i would use to break into a National Guard or regular Army base and acquire a bradley fighting vehicle, ammo for said vehicle, and assorted small arms. now i have a heavily armored mobile base of operations. food would be taken care of by military rations, and zombies would be handil taken care of by a combination 25mm main cannon, 7.62mm coaxial machine gun, and 33 tons of tracked vehicle.
 

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The main problem I see with breaking into an armed forces base is... that's what everyone else will be trying to do (not to mention the active/reserve members that WILL be there). Something to look into would be lesser known deposits of weaponry like a low key Class II firearms dealer that manufactures/repairs machine guns. Not all of them are open to the public so a little research now could pay off in the long run. In the midwest I knew of a rather large Class II/III operation that was within 10 minutes of me but no one I talked to knew where it was at! It was located in a little industrial strip and had quite the selection of small arms up to and including 25mm anti-aircraft turret that was in the main display room along with a ma duece... They literally had everything from supressed Ruger 10/22's up to SAW's and most things in between that had ever been issued or considered for issue to a military force here or abroad. Now while they didn't 'technically' sell ammunition to the general public, I've seen with my own eyes the case upon case upon CASES of ammo they had back there.

A place like that is what you want to find and make friends with all the employees. I might not be the first one there so it helps with the not getting shot on sight part if you know them and they know you! They didn't have a bradley though, just an old russian half track transport. Reminds me that I need the find the local equivalent up here. I have a start but I haven't weaseled my way in far enough to see all that can be seen :D
 

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So I'm watching Jericho on the SyFi channel and I saw something that I've seen more than once in a survival movie/program. Someone comes to a crossroads and sees that the sign is broken off and doesn't point in any given direction. While the answer jumps to the front of my mind, I thought I'd explain how to solve this problem just in case no one else has thought of it. Pick the stupid sign up and match the two separated ends together! Easiest with wood as you can match the splintered ends, match up against signs of fading, etc. With a metal post it'll be a little harder as you might have to interpret the twisting. You should, however, be able to readily tell where the break was and most metal sign posts are U shaped which should actually make it easier to see which way faced front. If you run into an actual metal pole that broke, treat it like the wood and look for signs of impact and fading to match it up against the stump.

For those of you new to the group, I officially think WAY too much about post-apoc survival :D But you might want to at least consider my options as they've been thoroughly examined with my ADD/OCD enhanced (Imagine 1 hyperactive chimp attacking a car, now imagine 100 of them working from different angles) problem solving skills. I also count wheel lugs and spoke counts on parked cars. I gave up on trying to crack the regional codes on license plates, I started getting too many speeding tickets due to inattention :p
 

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LOL That is almost as bad as a question I was asked during a job interview. The question was "You are driving through the desert and one of the wheel falls off. You find the wheel but the lug nuts are missing. You are 50 miles from the nearest town and do not have a phone, food, and water. The road rarely used, so no traffic around. You have tools in your trunk but no extra lug nuts, how do you get the car to a town?" LOL I only had to think about this for a few seconds and I knew the answer. It was a lot easier to answer then some of their other questions. So does anyone know the answer?
 

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Since we all know i have no chance of survival in unusual situations (i probably shouldn't even be allowed to post in this thread). I have no problem saying that I don't have a clue. How do you get the car to town? (though i do carry water when driving through the desert and now know how to read broken sign posts). and, BTW, what kind of job were you applying for that they ask that kind of question?
 

whynotvap

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You remove one lug nut from the other 3 wheels and use them to secure the 4th wheel to the car until you get to town where you can purchase replacement lug nuts. There are a few cars that this wouldn't work with though. The 'newest' of them would be the 'Le Car' made by Renault and imported to the states by AMC for awhile. It only had 3 lug nuts per wheel! So if you drove it in the desert... you deserve to die there :p. For american made cars, older Chrysler cars actually had different threaded studs on the driver and passenger sides. Left handed threads on the left side and right handed "normal" threads on the right! If you ever have occasion to look at an old factory original Dodge from the 60's, you'll see a little L stamped onto the end of the left handed wheel studs. Most people have replaced them with standard right hand thread studs but there are a few collectors that feel it adds to the mystique of the classic mopars...
 

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Don't take that job! The person getting rescued is either a complete idiot and lives or worth saving and dies horribly just before getting rescued, usually due to the former... Worst case scenario, stay locked up in your house and don't open the door to anyone, they'll just get you killed one way or another, especially if they're trying to help you.
 
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