Bear Grylls Urban Survival

[Mark J]

Not at all!

Just make sure to ram him into the window head first, otherwise he may get hurt.

Yeah, you gotta use the pointy part of his head.

Looks to me like this could be the best 10 bucks you ever spend. If the spring loaded window breaker works anything like the ones I've seen volunteer fireman use, it would completely take the worry out of being trapped in a car.

My wife and I have one of these on each of our keychains, and I really like the security of having it there. In my opinion it beats a knife, since you can probably reach it (attached to the keys in the ignition), whereas you might not be able to reach your back pocket. Thankfully, I've never had to use it to escape a vehicle, but I did try it on some auto safety glass when I first got it and it worked great.

- Mark

 

[houdini28]

Looks to me like this could be the best 10 bucks you ever spend. If the spring loaded window breaker works anything like the ones I've seen volunteer fireman use, it would completely take the worry out of being trapped in a car.

I agree. I have used one as a volunteer EMT and I carry one on my car keys. It is lightweight, goes unnoticed on the keychain and works exceptionally well. I prefer it to a center punch as it has the belt cutter built into it. I also prefer this one to the LifeHammers because I am never sure if I will have room to swing a hammer (not much is needed but I know the ResQMe will work).

 

[manowar669]

Best Bear Grylls episode:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=15632129



it's a spoof, but funny.

 

[PayetteRucker]

I'd use the fatty end of the bottle opener, personally...

 

[nolan raborn]

I still have a NASTY scar on my right middle finger from a SAK reamer closing on it when I was in Boy Scouts (almost 20 years ago). I was holding the knife in a punch style grip with the reamer sticking out between 2 fingers to use it as a "drill" to make a hole through a stick. The reamer closed on my hand and peeled the skin back from my middle finger... I will NEVER use the SAK Phillips Screwdriver, Corkscrew or Reamer in that grip again, ESPECIALLY not to break something as hard as a car window!

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Just what I have always maintained! SAK is junk and should never be considered for use in real life.

 

[supratentorial]

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Just what I have always maintained! SAK is junk and should never be considered for use in real life.

I don't think that's what he said. Lots of knives lack locking blades but that doesn't mean they're bad knives.

After an unparalleled success story around the world, the VICTORINOX "Swiss Army Knife" is even orbiting the earth as part of the standard equipment of the Space Shuttle Crew. The knife has also been successfully proven on expeditions: in the arctic ice of the North Pole; on the highest peak on earth, Mount Everest; in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon, and elsewhere. Time and again, it has been a life saver in situations of extreme danger and great need. The New York Museum of Modern Art and the State Museum for Applied Art in Munich have selected it for their collection of excellence in design, and, since Lyndon B. Johnson, US presidents present guests with VICTORINOX pocket knives.

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[Guyon]

Look up ResQMe. Put one on every set of car keys. Put one on your regular key ring.

Glass breaker and seat belt cutter.

I read the Amazon reviews. A few folks mentioned that their glass breakers did not work when tested. I'm thinking about a couple, but I'll be sure to test them.


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[supratentorial]

There's also the BodyGard from Swiss+Tech. I've got one but I haven't messed with it - don't have any extra car windows around the house. Did the reviews say how they tested the glass breakers?

edit: "No matter how hard we tried we couldn't get the pin to 'pop'. The barrel simply moved in and out with no effect." Oh! I checked that right away (had to try all the functions on my new toy). The pin works fine on my BodyGard.

 

[supratentorial]

I was watching his urban survival show which i thought would be more interesting but it's downright BORING. Anyways, he used a belt buckle on his shoe for a glassbreaker. I got to thinking about knives with built on glass breakers. Do you think a SAK with a phillips out the end or a reamer would be a good glass breaking tool? I say out the end because they seem to not fold as much as the one in the spot where the corkscrew usually goes.

Here's a real life situation that puts this to test... The story doesn't give very many details and it doesn't sound like he was successful breaking the window but it's good to see that there are heros among us... and they have Leatherman multi-tools!

A quick-thinking chiropractor saved an 86-year-old woman from drowning when he pulled her out of her Buick, which she had driven off a pier and into the harbor and which was submerged in 10 feet of water off Pope's Island Saturday morning... ... Conley, who had planned to take his 35-foot Viking yacht "Two If By Sea," to Cuttyhunk Island for the day, says he immediately ran to his boat, which was docked nearby, grabbed some goggles, fins, and a Leatherman tool to break the vehicle's glass and dove in the water after the car. He had an oxygen tank on the boat, but had no time to hook it up...Conley said he went under the water three times and on the third time he was able to free the octogenarian... The first time he went down, he tried to smash the vehicle's rear window with the Leatherman. However, he soon realized that pulling the woman out through the rear of the car was going to be difficult. Plus, the front side driver's window was open.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100808/NEWS/8080340

 

[Sep]

This one is good too:
http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=CR9030

I'm buying it as soon as they have it in stock.

 

[savagelh]

anybody ever consider just rolling the window down?

 

[Buffalohump]

That would work. Unless its an electrically operated one and the electronics have gone belly up. Or its a manual one and its jammed because the doors been smashed in.

anybody ever consider just rolling the window down?

 

[znapschatz]

That would work. Unless its an electrically operated one and the electronics have gone belly up. Or its a manual one and its jammed because the doors been smashed in.

Based on a whole lot of posts on the subject, there appears to be much preparation going on for situations that in life seldom happen. Several years ago someone observed that in many years and thousands of auto accidents to which he had been summoned as an EMT, he never once had to cut a seat belt, but simply worked the release mechanisms to free crash victims. Of course, there just could be that one in a gazillion chance a jammed seat belt needs to be cut or window glass pulverized, so I carry a ResQMe, anyway.

 

[Joben]

anybody ever consider just rolling the window down?

That doesn't work if the car is under water even slightly.
The sideways pressure on the huge area of glass jams the mechanism.

Also a lot of power windows don't go down when the car is turned off...seems doubtful they would operate after a crash.