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Jul 09, 2009 04:59AM
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I only mention that because I know allot of urbanites that the outdoors are totally an alien environment for them and even when planned the don't carry the basics.
There is, here in the UK, a cause of death that is so common, it's got its own name. It's called the Pass Death Syndrome.The scenario is - Father, Mother, two kids out for a drive in the mountains on a nice spring day. They get to a pass through the mountains and decide to go for a nice walk up the hills. They're wearing jeans, trainers, T-shirts. They take a snack.
When they set out, a slight breeze is blowing, but it's comfortably warm. They climb. When they've gone as little as a thousand feet up, the slight breeze has become uncomfortably strong, and the temperature has dropped significantly. The breeze has also brought cloud and mist, which now covers them. They can no longer find their way back. They wander and wander, getting more and more chilled, disorientated, hungry, weak. It starts to rain and hail.
They are usually found a few days later, dead, parents on the outside cuddling the kids, trying to keep them warm to the last.
No map, no compass, no waterproofs, no bivvy bags, no rations, no note in the car or message left with police saying where they're going and how long they should be.
Every year sees a few of those.
Of course, the other reaction is: the wilderness is a dangerous place, see, that proves it.
No it isn't. Properly trained, properly equipped, the wilderness is a damn sight safer than the average city.
Yeah, I can leave my car unlocked in the wilderness. That is quite sad that it happens at all, considering it's one of the most avoidable deaths.
Cell phones suck anyway. You can't hear the other person, they can't hear you, they disconnect for no reason. I hate them.
I don't have one anymore. Used to have them on contract, but most of the calls I seemed to get were from people trying to sell me more phones. I chucked my last one away a year ago. Haven't missed it once.
I was never a phone person, so I was never going to use mine for casual calls anyway. Before mobile phones got really small, I had a "car phone" to use in case I broke down, got lost, etc. Now I have one that I do keep on me "just in case" and I almost never use it. Actually I use it for the time since I don't wear a watch any more.
M.R. wrote: "What is the creepiest location for an unpleasant occurence and why?"Hospitals are definitely the creepiest and scariest places in the world! I was taking the steps up from the basement one night, around 2am-ish, and there was an aide coming down the steps with a dead baby in a metal basket. That scene kept showing up in my dreams! Reminded me a scene from the old nightstalker series. Those hours between 2a and 6a in the hospital are always weird, you feel as though anything can happen
OK so you jam the cell, creep breaks window,maybe with our gun we keep a knife and slash out at him or her before thay know what hit them.And hospitals are creepy & germmy.
Lori, don't you know we're not safe anywhere? ;-]and there was an aide coming down the steps with a dead baby in a metal basket.
Eh, it's too early in the morning for me to be reading this.
Anna wrote: "M.R. wrote: "What is the creepiest location for an unpleasant occurrence and why?"Hospitals are definitely the creepiest and scariest places in the world! I was taking the steps up from the base..."
That is just 3rd rate practicing by whomever was transporting the deceased child. They are supposed to cover any body they are transporting that might be visible to anyone. I'd be pissed.
Paul wrote: "There is, here in the UK, a cause of death that is so common, it's got its own name. It's called the Pass Death Syndrome.The scenario is - Father, Mother, two kids out for a drive in the mountain..."
Wouldn't it have occured to them to head downward instead of wandering up and up?
That's sad, Paul. Does this happen to tourist not aware of all this? Seems like natives would know better.
They do wander down, but just not down to the right place. So they are still wandering, hopelessly lost, and usually going in circles when night closes down.Tressa, as Einstein once said: 'Only two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. I'm not sure about the universe.'
No, they don't know better. The people who live and work in mountains all the time do know better. The people who drive out from e.g. Birmingham don't.
It's just Mother Nature getting her payback.
Since the woods are shrinking in our area (unfortunately), it's a pretty big tourist spot for the lakes. Especially the one we live nearby. In the summer we can't go a day without hearing sirens heading to the lake where some people have gotten drunk and out on the ski-jets, boats, what have you and crashed. Either that or there's fights on the sandbar. It used to be really nice to go out there but now a local won't even go near it because of all the fudgies there. I'd say I agree with Einstein. People who normally wouldn't drink and drive feel perfectly comfortable driving a boat or watercraft wjile sloshed. Oh, well, Darwin's theory at work.
Too bad Darwin's Theory is mainly thwarted and almost irrelevant nowadays.
Grace, what's a fudgie?I wish people would confine their stupidity and lawlessness to their own homes. No one wants to see that in public.
Ah, but somewhere, a superior race is evolving. Or has already evolved.They walk among us. They look just like you and me...
Tressa wrote: "Grace, what's a fudgie?I wish people would confine their stupidity and lawlessness to their own homes. No one wants to see that in public."
I think they already do. More accidents happened at home than outside, you know.
Tressa wrote: "Grace, what's a fudgie?I wish people would confine their stupidity and lawlessness to their own homes. No one wants to see that in public."
Sorry! I'm not really sure, actually. It's a local reference to out-of-towners and out-of-staters. I think it has something to do with Mackinaw Island in Michigan being known for it's fudge.
You know one place thats scary is the fair. All those carny folks, unstable rides, the fun house,{witch is not fun} and don't forget the house of mirrors. I got lost in one once almost lost it. Started to break the SOB'S but my friends came and rescued me.LOL now, was not funny than.
Yes, how could we have forgotten funfairs? Bradbury and Koontz had stuff set in carnie-world. Probably more that I don't know about.
I still remember the fun house (yeah, right!) ride at the state fairgrounds when I was a kid. My sister and I rode it, but we were scared out of our minds.I am awful with navigation of anything, and get lost in doctors' offices because I have zero sense of direction. I got lost for 30 mins. in a suburban neighborhood and finally just followed a homeowner out to the main road. We're not talking deep woods here. So, if I was set down in a fun house mirror maze, I'd lose it, too.
Me too! My sense of direction sucks. And all my friends thought it was funny that i got lost in the mirrors, i didnot see the humer in it.
A dark swimming pool is always pretty creepy. More outside I'm thinking because indoors they usually have lights on but outside, when it's dark you can't see anything beneath the water.
funny you think of creepy things first, I would be like a kid... awesome hiding place for Hide and Seek.
Or how about making a corn maze for halloween!
they do that kinda stuff in the states all the time. Kids love it.
Jo wrote: "I think where they live in Signs is pretty scary, right outside theres a big corn field that is tall enough to hide a person (or an alien) if it even as much as rustled i would be locking all the d..."That's the everyday environment around here!
Where i live you have to go to the country to see fields of any kind,think goodness cause like JO i'm a big wimp.Had a friend once who lived out in the boonies went to see her ONE time ,OMG the corn fields made me think of Childern of the Corn.Very scary place never went back.
Lori wrote: " Where i live you have to go to the country to see fields of any kind,think goodness cause like JO i'm a big wimp.Had a friend once who lived out in the boonies went to see her ONE time ,OMG the co..."You guys kill me! City slickers!
I love the boonies! I don't like the plains though, ugly and boring. The only benefit they provide is growing crops. Don't mind the city though, prefer middle of nowhere, get away with allot more.
Jerrod wrote: "I love the boonies! I don't like the plains though, ugly and boring. The only benefit they provide is growing crops. Don't mind the city though, prefer middle of nowhere, get away with allot more."I live near the Ohio river. One of the things we did as kids was try to get lost in the bottoms. We would drive all the bottoms roads and actively try to get lost. River, dead trees, corn fields, coyotes, bobcats. It was a little eerie. Good place to take a girl parking, drink, and do other substances!
If you want to call my hometown a city.I guess it is but a very small one.We want to do smoething cool we have to go to Raleigh or Greensboro.We used to have a drive in back in the day, parking-drinking,& smoking happend there.Or our own backyard.
I prefer the mountains myself, much easier to find the nice little getaway spot.
Have you ever walked around in a corn field?! Snakes and huge effing bugs, that's a nightmare right there! I'm 5'2" as an adult, I felt like a midget when we'd go play in the cornfields near home.
snakes and bugs? How about bears, wolfs and the wayward redneck? That's what we have to contend with in the mountains. Oh yeah, we've got snakes too. Cornfields are fun though.
I love snakes and bears and wolves! (Oh my)
For us city slickers we have to be on the look out for crackheads, drunks, and whores.{Oh no}
I'm not venturing from my suburban neighborhood. Haven't you psychos read Afraid yet? Sheesh.
The city scares me. All those humans...
If i wasn't such a wuss i'd move out there with the animals.
I live in the suburbs, not the city. But I lived in the city and wasn't afraid at all. I would be very afraid out in the woods with no one around for miles and miles.
Anna wrote: "Have you ever walked around in a corn field?! Snakes and huge effing bugs, that's a nightmare right there! I'm 5'2" as an adult, I felt like a midget when we'd go play in the cornfields near home."Not to mention getting whacked in the head (and other body parts) every five steps. That's another thing! In horror movies they're always able to run through a cornfield without getting whacked once!
The woods its already an unfamiliar place for most people and if your a city person like me noises and what not can play on your mind.
How about a donut shop or all night diner? There was one short film about vampires and jelly donuts.... anyone see or remember the title to that one?
