charmingbillie ([info]charmingbillie) wrote,
@ 2008-02-14 18:45:00
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If the Apocalypse Comes...Beep Me
So, do you ever think about what you'd do if some [cause unknown] apocalypse occurred and you were forced for [reasons unknown] to pack up and join hordes of refugees traveling to the Promised Land (or, say, Las Vegas) on foot?  Like, for instance, what would you do with your dogs?  Would they have to forage for their own food?  How would you keep them with you?  And what if you had a three-legged dog?  Would you take him or would you have to euthanize him so he wouldn't die alone?  Or even stay behind on your own because he was your dog and you owed it to him? 

Do you ever think about those sorts of eventualities?

Okay, just me then...

On a completely different note, does anyone know what that maneuver is called that they're always doing on COPS where they force a car off the road by hitting it in a certain spot during a chase?  Because you can't look it up on Google like that.   (...or, apparently you can because it's the PIT maneuver.  PIT=precision immobilization technique and I looked it up by typing 'police maneuver to stop a car during a high speed chase' *Sigh* I do love me some Google.)

And, wow, did you know there was a website called policedriving.com?



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[info]sarah_prineas
2008-02-15 02:02 am UTC (link)
Uh oh. What is our BoyD up to?

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[info]charmingbillie
2008-02-15 02:52 am UTC (link)
I believe Boyd and Hallie are going to have a misunderstanding of suitably apocalyptic proportions.

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[info]diatryma
2008-02-15 02:16 am UTC (link)
I sometimes wonder what the Catina would do; she really doesn't like new places. If my house burned down, I'd probably get some bad smoke inhalation trying to find her and get her under my shirt or something, and then I'd have to find someone with a nice quiet room for her to hide in, with a bed for me so she wouldn't be all scared and alone.
I also wonder what would happen to my plants.

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[info]charmingbillie
2008-02-15 02:52 am UTC (link)
Yes, fire and flood are both scenarios I've pondered myself.

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[info]stephanieburgis
2008-02-15 09:08 am UTC (link)
When I read Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life as We Knew It, I found myself thinking about it...and basically realizing that as someone with a chronic disease, I wouldn't make it through even the first year of an apocalypse. Eep. So I tried to stop thinking about it from then on!

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[info]charmingbillie
2008-02-15 12:39 pm UTC (link)
So I tried to stop thinking about it from then on!

This is possibly the better plan all around anyway. Although it probably just leaves you free to imagine all sorts of other stuff.

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[info]cathemery
2008-02-15 03:57 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I do think about those possible eventualities.

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[info]cafenowhere
2008-02-16 03:17 am UTC (link)
Are you kidding?! That's almost all I ever think about! I was at a very impressionable age during the 80s, so I've been waiting for a nuclear holocaust ever since. That, and the movie ET made me fear the government, with all their gun-toting, haz-mat-suited scientists.

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