Unfortunately, you and your entire family were in a local bank when a group of bank robbers took over the bank.
Three of the four robbers escaped with their loot, but the fourth one was abandoned after he was shot in the thigh by the security guard.
He subsequently shot the security guard in the bank vault and took your family and another family as hostage, and locked the vault door.
You and one of the parents from the other family managed to overcome the wounded robber and shot him in the head.
From the police radio of the security guard, you learned that it would take the bomb squad four hours to blast open the vault door.
The oxygen inside the vault can only support everyone inside for two hours.
What would you do?
Scenario
Created 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:35:56 UTC by
satchmo
Created 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:35:56 UTC by
satchmo
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:35:56 UTC
Post #267091
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:40:48 UTC
Post #267093
Seriously, where do you get this stuff from?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:40:53 UTC
Post #267094
I'd try to find a way to unlock and open the vault door from the inside, and failing that, take the radio and tell the bomb squad to get a faster way to open the door, or they'd have a pile of bodies on their hands. If there was cover (gold or something) in the vault, I'd try to convince them to blast the damn thing open.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:48:34 UTC
Post #267097
Seriously, where do you get this stuff from?From my twisted head.
I stay up at night thinking up doomsday scenarios.
Perhaps that's why I am tired in the morning.
The bomb squad already knows about the oxygen deprivation and the time constraint. That's how you learned about the dilemma.
If they blow the door open, everyone dies. They have to open the door through a series of small and controlled explosions at the door's hinges.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:57:10 UTC
Post #267098
I'd just kill the other family and eat them, especially if they're ugly. You could leave them there, but I hate seeing good food go to waste like that.
Or you could just hold your breath.
Or you could just hold your breath.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 16:59:48 UTC
Post #267099
Tell them to get a F**k'n bigger drill.
From my twisted head.Or, you know, you're a doctor, so you have to deal with injuries and stuff all the time.
I stay up at night thinking up doomsday scenarios.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 17:02:42 UTC
Post #267102
How long can humans survive after they've passed out from lack of oxygen? They might say you have two hours to live, but isn't that kind of dependent on how you're spending that time? If everybody was asleep, the oxygen could last longer.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 17:07:34 UTC
Post #267104
I hate seeing good food go to waste like that.I had to laugh.
So the situation is either one family dies (so the other family can survive) or everyone does (cause they run out of air)?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 17:18:59 UTC
Post #267106
Breathe slowly. Hold each breath for a long time.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 17:23:55 UTC
Post #267107
don't fart
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 17:32:15 UTC
Post #267108
Threaten him with my crowbar, if he doesnt say the password then whack him in the balls. Rins and repeat until his balls of steel are gone and is reduced up to a tiny pathetic pile of human, then grab his head, pull the hair back, look into his eyes like a psycho, and tell him you will let him life even if he doesnt say the password. Tell him you will get him convicted, tell him you will wait for him when he gets out of jail, make him disappear, and learn what years of agonizing pain can do with him...
EDIT:
Oh wait, your already stuck inside...
Anyway, i would lie down on the floor, slow down my breath, get the other people to do so to, meditate and think of a solution.
EDIT:
Oh wait, your already stuck inside...
Anyway, i would lie down on the floor, slow down my breath, get the other people to do so to, meditate and think of a solution.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 17:52:38 UTC
Post #267109
I would use a chocolate bar, a paper clip and some duct tape to produce fresh air. Oh, and I would call Pete Thornton.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 18:50:57 UTC
Post #267111
I'd just kill the other family and eat them, especially if they're ugly. You could leave them there, but I hate seeing good food go to waste like that.I literally lol'd. Quite loudly.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 18:58:09 UTC
Post #267112
Threaten him with my crowbar, if he doesnt say the password then whack him in the balls.He was shot in the head with his own gun. He's dead.
I would use a chocolate bar, a paper clip and some duct tape to produce fresh air. Oh, and I would call Pete Thornton.Who are you, Macgiver?
don't fartWhy is noone taking this tread seriously but me?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 19:00:47 UTC
Post #267113
I'd just kill the other family and eat them, especially if they're ugly.I'd say let the 21 year old daughter live, and when you find out there's not enough oxygen left, you can use team up with her to consume all what's left of it in seconds
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 19:16:59 UTC
Post #267114
Go "end of the world" on everyone. Strip naked and do whatever the hell you want with your last hours. Especially if no-one will live to hear about it.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 20:53:38 UTC
Post #267115
Either we could kill off half the people so half could survive, or be a bunch of ethic-ridden weaklings and all die from suffocation.
I'd say draw straws and kill off half of the people.
Oh, and anyone who cries uses up more oxygen, so no mourning your loved ones or you die too.
And if I draw a short straw, then I kill them all.
I'd say draw straws and kill off half of the people.
Oh, and anyone who cries uses up more oxygen, so no mourning your loved ones or you die too.
And if I draw a short straw, then I kill them all.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 20:54:20 UTC
Post #267116
Logic assumes that if the robber can lock the vault door from the inside, he also has some way to unlock it. If it's some numeric code or something that's not tangible, you can radio it in. The alternative is getting someone who can actually unlock the door without exploding it.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 21:08:37 UTC
Post #267117
reprogram the scenario making it possible for everyone to escape alive.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 21:28:12 UTC
Post #267118
Logic assumes that if the robber can lock the vault door from the inside, he also has some way to unlock it.What if the door locks when it's closed or something?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 21:35:55 UTC
Post #267119
That's a pretty shoddy way to implement a vault. Everyone knows that you should be able to get out from the inside. This would be taken into account when the vault was built.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 21:53:48 UTC
Post #267120
How thick is this vault door, or the walls around it? If they have to drill through multiple deadlocks to open it, it may be quicker to drill one hole all the way through and pipe in oxygen.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-16 22:34:14 UTC
Post #267121
Why is noone taking this tread seriously but me?Why is it that you have absolutely no sense of humor?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 01:07:35 UTC
Post #267122
Hey, I like the drilling small holes for oxygen idea the best.
However, I don't know how banks usually build their vaults. I would think that it's thick metal all around.
I would kill the two oldest people first, since their lives aren't as valuable as the younger ones.
But I wouldn't start killing until someone actually passed out from lack of oxygen.
However, I don't know how banks usually build their vaults. I would think that it's thick metal all around.
I would kill the two oldest people first, since their lives aren't as valuable as the younger ones.
But I wouldn't start killing until someone actually passed out from lack of oxygen.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 02:31:11 UTC
Post #267125
kill everyone and live.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 03:19:47 UTC
Post #267126
I would slow my breathing and go into self-hypnosis(yes I can do that), so I still be able to think about what the hell to do, whilst only taking up as much oxygen as if I were sleeping.No cheating into power saving mode.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 04:01:21 UTC
Post #267127
kill everyone and live.Wouldn't killing more people than nessessary be illegal?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 05:25:25 UTC
Post #267128
frame the robber
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 10:37:07 UTC
Post #267140
my fart post was relevant.I am taking this seriously.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 17:12:12 UTC
Post #267156
Is it just me, or has Hunter's professionalism gone down a bit the last few days? 
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-17 17:38:26 UTC
Post #267157
On the contrary, I have merely been focusing my mature efforts in other areas, including the mapping help forums right here.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 03:54:25 UTC
Post #267180
Ah, ok then. Carry on.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 04:18:30 UTC
Post #267181
create a time-displacement field, and go back to warn the bank/police of the imminent robbery: solved.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 05:14:45 UTC
Post #267182
... Can you please tell me how you would go about creating the time-displacement field?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 08:59:37 UTC
Post #267183
Well you'd phone Spock, obv.
duh.
duh.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 09:10:42 UTC
Post #267184
You don't need to build one, just borrow G-man's. What, don't you have him on speed-dial?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 09:46:26 UTC
Post #267185
I'd try and tell everyone to meditate and slow their heart rates. Just calm down as much as possible, try to extend the four hours.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 11:41:22 UTC
Post #267189
Use a diamond-tipped drill. Profit. Survive.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 11:43:23 UTC
Post #267190
I'd try and tell everyone to meditate and slow their heart rates. Just calm down as much as possible, try to extend the four hours.And when they're in powersave mode, that's when you use the gun.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-18 12:33:12 UTC
Post #267193
TJB, firearms burn up oxygen when used faster than humans can consume it.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-19 06:06:32 UTC
Post #267227
WORST CASE SCENARIO.
In you're everyday work attire, you are falling off a bridge with no will to die.
WHAT DO SHOULD YOU DO?
edit: There's water underneath you.
In you're everyday work attire, you are falling off a bridge with no will to die.
WHAT DO SHOULD YOU DO?
edit: There's water underneath you.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-19 06:56:04 UTC
Post #267228
Fall.
EDIT: If you fall off a bridge, you SHOULD fall at least a little.
EDIT: If you fall off a bridge, you SHOULD fall at least a little.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-19 07:28:04 UTC
Post #267230
Anyway, i would lie down on the floor, slow down my breath, get the other people to do so to, meditate and think of a solution.Isn't C02 denser than oxygen? Im which case it would be a better idea to keep your head as high as you can?
(without exerting yourself obviously - that would just use up oxygen)
TJB, firearms burn up oxygen when used faster than humans can consume it.I remember I read once that there's already oxygen present in the gunpowder so it doesn't need an atmosphere to be fired, like when firearms are used underwater.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-19 08:02:52 UTC
Post #267233
Fall.what a stupid smartass response.
EDIT: If you fall off a bridge, you SHOULD fall at least a little.
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-19 08:51:05 UTC
Post #267235
Isn't everyone forgetting that while you're all stupidly lying on the floor sleeping, the other people are getting ready to kill you?
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-19 08:57:53 UTC
Post #267236
they escaped with their loot
Posted 14 years ago2009-05-19 13:04:17 UTC
Post #267238
what a stupid smartass response.It's a perfectly reasonable response to an open ended question.
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