Most days are pretty mundane. They don't throw any curveballs. You just get by. So when life does pull a trick on you, it comes as a surprise. Especially if it's a life-threatening one.
To give us an idea on how to prepare for the unexpected, a former royal marine and TikTok user Robin (aka DutchInTheUSA) has been creating a video series, sharing survival tips for all sorts of (extra) ordinary situations.
Truth be told, you probably won't need them. But if there's one time you will...
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Suviving While Lost At Sea
This trick can save your life. Build your own floating device using your pants. Once you get your pants off, you're gonna tie the two ends of your pants together like this, zip up or button up your pants, and this is the hardest part, you're gonna grab it by the sides, you're gonna slam it down and get as much air in there as possible. Now all you gotta do is put your head through it. And this is how you stay afloat.
We did this in school with pyjama bottoms, which is great if you're ever shipwrecked in your jimjams. More usefully, most clothing will hold air if you wet it first, then knot off part of it to form a balloon and inflate it as described above. Also losing heavy clothing makes it easier to stay afloat.
We used to dive for rubber bricks in our jimjams when I was swimming in primary school. I mean obviously nowadays, I walk endlessly up and down canals in my jimjams on the look out for a rubber brick.
Load More Replies...I still don't understand how the air stays in when you haven't sealed off the waist end of the trousers...
He is holding the waist end flat across his chest, I presume anyway.
Load More Replies...At summer camp, in the 60s, the camp brought in a water safety instructor who taught us how to turn a shirt, and our pants, into flotation devices. He didn't have us slam the clothing down. Instead, he instructed us to splash air into the clothing to inflate it. He also showed us a technique of treading water that would conserve energy.
My brother told a story about learning to do this while in the Navy and people thought it was a joke. You proved him right!
Robin came up with the idea for this series when he reenacted a movie scene and did a video on zip ties. "After that, I got a lot of people who didn't know how to do that [asking me about it in the comments]," he told Bored Panda. "So I showed it to them."
"But then some of them began asking 'Well, what about thicker zip ties? Or duct tape?' And it kind of just went from there and eventually ended up with handcuffs. And once I kind of was done with the handcuffs, and ropes and whatever, I felt that a lot of people just wanted daily safety tips. You know, how to keep yourself safe or be aware of your surroundings."
Being Followed At Night By A Stranger
Here's what you do if you're being followed. First thing you're gonna do is change your pattern and cross the street. Next thing you're gonna do is change your pace, but not too obvious. Next step is to look for houses with lights or TVs on, and call 911.
If you think you're being followed when you're in a car, make 4 right turns. If they are still following you, drive to the nearest police station.
Take 4 right turns of the same block, and now you are following the stranger!
Load More Replies...Funny thing, most women know this already and teach it to their daughters. Just saying
Hard luck if you're in England they are pretty much all closed except the big ones in major towns.
Stay Safe In A School Shooting
or don't live in USA where the politician don't care about school shooting because the NRA give them money
This is extremely sad. One of my friends, whose children are of course, going to school (in the US) have to do a school shooting drill, or something like that. School is for learning and making friends, not doing some kind of shooting drill.
That is so scary, where I live schools have earthquake drills, not quite as bad
Load More Replies...Got to ban assault rifles folks. They were designed for one purpose for the military; kill people.
Robin doesn't just google these tips. He tests them himself. "Most of my research is done by actually trying [what works and what doesn't]. Plus, once I do the videos, people give me feedback and whether or not it is positive, even if someone says they don't believe that particular method works, I try a different approach for them," he explained.
When people tell Robin they can't do something themselves or simply ask him about alternative ways to handle a situation, he keeps researching and experimenting. "I just try it out," the former royal marine said. "I put myself in a scenario [suggested by the viewers], and I just give it a go, and keep trying it until I find the best solution for it."
Surviving While Lost At Sea
Okay, so you don't wanna eat fish eyes. Let me show you how one guy survived for 72 days by himself making his own water. So you need two bowls and plastic, and if you don't have a bowl, I'm gonna show you how to make it out of duct tape. First bowl, fill it with sea water. So here's my duct tape bowl. Put your smaller bowl in the bigger bowl with sea water. Cover it with plastic or tarp. And we wait. So we left it in the sun for quite a while. You see all the condensation? Let's see what we've got in our bowl.
Holy crap, I'm lost at sea! Thank goodness I have two bowls and a roll of Saran Wrap.
This can be done by digging a hole in the ground, peeing in it and then covering it with a tarp and collecting the evaporated water. Thank you Ray Mears for that delightful piece of knowledge.
Right And Wrong Way Of Getting Into Uber/Lyft/Cab
Here's the right and the wrong way to get into an Uber, Lyft, or a cab. So the wrong way of doing it, car is here, I get in, pay no attention to any signal, just get in and hope it's my driver. Here's the right way to do it. Number one, I have my app open, I'm gonna verify that the license plate matches what I have on file. I walk over to the driver to ensure the information on the app resembles the driver. So next I'm gonna check the child safety lock and I'm gonna check if the windows work, and I'm gonna show you why that's a good idea to check this. If I didn't check any of that, number one, I'm stuck, I can't get it open and I can't even access my windows to try to reach from the outside. If you didn't pay attention to the child safety lock, but you verified your windows, at least you can do the following. Roll down my window, go from the outside, open the door if I feel uncomfortable.
You can only check if the child lock is active from the inside, after you enter the car and close the door. Also, most modern cars can be locked electronically, from the inside, by the driver.
Some cars have a n*b as a child lock which can be easily checked when you open the door
Load More Replies...Or hire a license taxi driver who has been better by the company and the police.
Stupid tip. Imagine someone remembers this nonsense instead of being logical.
you can check the child lock on the inside of the door when it's open - at least on my Prius you can
I ALWAYS verify the license and that it matches the description. ALWAYS. I also wait until the driver calls me by name. I don't check that the doors unlock or that the windows roll down. That's a good idea. It seems like every time I use Uber I'm in a warm place where the windows are already down anyway. I will keep this in mind though.
The humble man said that his time with the Royal Marines was "nothing too fancy."
"I was there from 2009 to 2014. Before that, I kind of did something in the Royal Army, which is similar to the ROTC program if we were to compare it to the US; you learn a trade and you enlist after that. It was an easier path into the military with higher success rates."
"I was kind of bored in the army. So when my instructor for the courses I was taking asked me if I wanted to try that, and I was very intrigued. I spent most of my time in training, like Arctic warfare, mountain warfare, and that's how I learned a lot of these survival skills. I'm a paratrooper. So I can shoot pretty much any weapon again you point me to."
In other words, Robin is the guy to follow for survival tips!
Self Defence Against Knife Attack
Here's the best self-defense against a knife attack. Now, in my case, someone's trying to rob me, I have two different wallets. Good one, fake one. Someone tries to rob me, I'm gonna keep my hands up high, I'm gonna tell them what I'm doing. I'm gonna move very slowly. I'm gonna grab my wallet and give you my wallet, okay? The moment you do this, you're gonna drop it and run.
Best defence against a robber armed with a knife, maybe. Not the best defence against someone trying to stab you with a knife.
You have two completely different stories in your comment
Load More Replies...Good advice for someone who isn't 1 stolen wallet away from homelessness. For those of us who don't live in an ivory tower and literally cannot afford to have their wallet stolen, what advice do you have?
Load More Replies...Call it 'mugging' and not 'knife attack', b/c someone coming at you with a knife? Best defense is to not be near the knife.
Great so as a woman I just need to carry 2 purses, one fake and one real. So easy idk why I didn't think of it before!
How To Escape Handcuffs Using Your Bra
If it were that easy to take the underwire out.... especially when your hands are tied on your back. I mean, still a tip to remember, though.
That's what I was thinking. I buy pretty expensive bras just for the one reason that it takes longer till the underwire pokes through. So yeah, it will take a lot longer than 8 seconds to get that thing out.
Load More Replies...This is the most ridiculous of all! I don't even know where to start! That it's impossible to remove your bra while on handcuffs? That the wire is not removed easily? I mean this advice comes from a guy that says he can do that in 8 seconds, meanwhile I've had many guys that had difficulty even opening the bra🙄
Also, it's not all that common for guys to wear a bra.
Load More Replies...I mean, if your hands are cuffed at the back, you can't do it. If at the front, you can't undo the bra to even get the underwire out. And if the underwire is not already poking out, you can't just magically pop it out, at least, not in my bras. You would have to try to chew through the material.
I've had to remove underwire from bras a few times and let me tell you, even with scissors it ain't happening easily. Good quality, expensive bras are made so that the underwire won't break through the fabric. It's layers upon layers of padding around them.
You just need to remember to always carry a bra with you
Load More Replies...This would be the one time my underwire actually doesnt pop out of my bra.
Even if by some David Copperfield magic contortionist trick i could get my bra undone and off ( Note to self: check out 50 Shades of Grey to see if there's a demo of how to do that). I don't wear underwire bras. I hate them. Oh well. I guess I'm stuck. But here's how you can get out of handcuffs. At a birthday party for my best friend, someone hired a male stripper. He came in dressed as a cop. Part of his routine was to cuff her to the table. Then he proceeded to do a bit of a routine for us other ladies. Thus distracted, she got her purse and pulled out her dad's old handcuff key. ( he was a retired cop) & unlocked the cuffs, out of them & closed them up. Surprise for the stripper when he came back! So, ladies, always carry a handcuff key in case you get cuffed to a table by a stripper in a restaurant. Sorry for the snark, but if you're already in handcuffs, you're going to be somewhere this won't help you anyway. About the only thing you can do is fight like hell not to be taken in the first place. Gavin DeBoeker 101. Once you've been taken odds are pretty bad.
Tt could work but its gonna be difficult especially since I prefer wearing unwired bras. How about wearing a necklace that can double as a shim.
Hotel Room Safety Tip
Here are some hotel room safety tips you should know about. Use your belt to go through the chain link for your hotel. This makes it harder to pick it or even remove the lock from the chain link. Use a glass to wake you up if someone tries to open the door. And my favorite of all - a self-made barrier. In this case, I'm using a shower curtain rod to barricade the door. I'm using a triangular method to put pressure on the door and you won't be able to open it.
My cousin was raped by a man who broke into her hotel room. Had she taken some of these steps, she might have been spared the trauma. Oh, it was a 4-star hotel too.
Load More Replies...Travel with a rubber door wedge. Put it under the door and it is really hard to open against the wedge pressure.
Inwas thinking on visiting USA this summer, but now i might go to visit a local prison. Looks safer....
I just bring a door stopper and jam it under the door. They even have ones with alarms
FFS. Just take a $5 doorstop in your luggage, then if you have to block the door, it's easily placed, an deasily removed with a kick if you have to escape the hotel room!
What if the chains break on the chain link? Then the belt just falls off, what is the use of doing this?
I never wear a belt. The glass i actually manage to balance on the handle will not wake me up when it lands on the carpet. The hotels I stay at would certainly frown upon me disassembling their shower rod.
If Your Arms Are Tied Behind Your Back
Zipties are extremely hard to break that way. You'd be better off chewing through them.
Commercial ones, not so much. One's designed to be used as handcuffs (IE the one's more likely to be used) won't break this way.
Load More Replies...Honey.. after tightening them i wouldnt be able to break free and my wrists would die...
What if you have short arms and a giant ass? Asking for a friend...
This works! Try it. Unless their military grade zip ties they will break.
How To Escape A Sinking Car
Here's how to escape a sinking car. If your vehicle is taking on water, your first step is to get the seatbelt off. If you cannot unbuckle it, have a device like this that can cut the seatbelt. The second step is to get the window down. Now you can roll it down using your electrical panel right here, or you can break it with a little pin like this. Make sure it goes on the corner right here. Once you have done that, you're gonna get out of the car, stepping on this with your feet. Do not sit on it, there's gonna be glass all over the place that's gonna hurt you. Here's testing out how it works, place it, and you're just gonna push.
All of these are clever and helpful ideas, but this guy just doesn't get that most people panic during situations like this. True survival mode can turn people into blithering idiots.
If you memorise what to do, you are more likely to remember if ever in this situation.
Load More Replies...All of the side windows are toughened glass and difficult to break, but the windscreen is designed to break easily.
Load More Replies...This is why we hae window-breaking hammers with seatbelt cutters built in, taped to the dash of our vehicle. They cost less than $10, and if you have it in view, in easy reach, it's easy to get to.
My nieces husband just lost a friend this way. He actually drowned. The truck slid off the road and into the river. My nephew (in law), his friend and his friends wife were all upside down in the cab and seat belted in. It was dark because it was very early in the morning as they were going hunting. Travis, the friend, had a knife in his pocket and he cut his seat belt off and popped up out of the river as my nephew tells the story. He went back down for his wife who couldn't get out. He cut her out and pulled her to safety. My nephew had gotten to safety on the river bank and he saw Leah come up out of the water and they waited for Travis to come back up but he never did. They found his body three days later. I guess he got swept away by the current. If he hadn't been carrying a knife in his pocket they'd have both been killed.
So, you say don’t wait for the car to equalize pressure, but then you say it takes awhile for the car to equalize pressure, like that’s something you need to wait for? Mythbusters tested this, and the windows won’t roll down and the glass might not break until the pressure equalizes. Also, not all glass breakers work, and it’s hard to find one that does without testing it first, which sucks, because how do you test it?
I have this large device in my car that serves two purposes. At one end is a heavy, thick blade safely secured in this device handle to cut your seat belt. Its going to take a strong sharp blade to get through one. Remember, it's made strong enough to hold you in a crash. Its not going to be that easy to do. This WILL cut your seat belt. Seen in demo. The other end has a heavy solid steel punch with a dull point on the end. Using this to smash a window is easier than you think. I had accidentally locked myself out of the house on a bitterly cold night. I live in the country. Neighbors are not close. I got this out of my car and easily in 2 hard taps smashed through a window to get myself in. So I know that works. Keep it right beside me in the car.
Escape A Zip Tie On The Neck
Get your shoe lace!? I'm being strangled, you think i can pul out a shoe lace?!
Can I just use my pocket knife that I always carry? Or do I need to unlace my shoe?
I wish I could carry a pocket knife everywhere I go...but I can't at work. But by the same token, it would be VERY highly unlikely I would be zip tied by the neck at work, due to security measures. :D
Load More Replies...Reconsider buying one pair... and a bra that has an easily removed wire
Load More Replies...What zipties is this guy using? Also, you would be dying of lack of oxygen in real situation, so not too good at this. And what bad guy zipties your neck but leaves you otherwise mobile? What shoelaces does he have? Steel-cord? Seriously...?
And how quickly can he unlace his shoes? This is plain BS, as always with tikfuck.
Load More Replies...Holy s.h.i.t. The thought of this happening is going to give me nightmares!
I guess we're sunk if we're wearing shoes that doesn't have any strings.
Ways To Jump Out Of Moving Vehicle
The car's moving and you think someone is going to be able to balance on the boot of the car, while pulling out the fake flooring?!!
Or you die. I'd rather have the information and try.
Load More Replies...I have not had to use the trunk one… but I have had to jump out of a car. It is true that you want to put your foot in the jam of the door and propel outward from there and roll protecting your head. That is the way that you will make it out with the least injuries.
And I missed the part on why the eff I'm in the trunk of a moving car in the first place. This guy watched WAY too many bad movies.
Load More Replies...I have to stop at this point - I'm laughing too hard. This guy is a joke. He's as much a royal marine as I am a monkey's uncle. Most of these tips are impossible for the average person to accomplish, and I do think that he's just trying to make money by putting this garbage online.
College Door Safety Hacks
If you ever see this come under the door... In the video you just saw, you saw someone using a coat hanger to get into a dorm room. Most of the advice there is to use a deadbolt, but since you're at a campus, you're not authorized, usually, to manipulate the doors or put extra security measures. What I'm gonna show you is an easy, effective way that is cheap, that you can use to defend yourself against stuff like this. So this is the part in question, all you have to do is push both in...
If that comes under my door, I'm going to grab it, open the door, and whip the person on the other side.
I'll do the same. I'll make sure that when I opened the door, I'll slam it right on the person's head a few times.
Load More Replies...Why on earth don't dorms come with secure doors in the first place? Especially with the amount of assault that happens in college? That's nuts.
Dorms are only as safe as the people who live in them. People letting other people, bringing over their significant others who you don’t know, and in general being jerks themselves are just some of the reasons to never think you don’t have to watch out for yourself.
Load More Replies...Again, don't lock yourself *in*. Again, easier fix: Block the gap. Shoes will do.
Ok..ummm well what the hell is it? What is the "device" he has? It says "all you have to do is push both in"?? Both what? What are you pushing? And where are you pushing it?? What the heck?!
I saw another post about that device, someone commented on it recommending putting a door stopper under the door to keep it shut
Ways To Get Out Of Being Choked In A Car
Here are 3 ways to get out of this. First one: the cool one. You're gonna slide your hand behind your head, come to your throat, then you're gonna use your mechanical lever and get out. Number two: if you don't have enough force, you're gonna move your seatbelt through here, move it towards your feet, step it, push out with your foot, and you have enough leverage. And the most effective one is you're gonna turn to your side, allowing blood flow to go through one side, you're gonna move your hand in through the rope, and with your other hand you're gonna grab your hand right here and slide your elbow out. Like that. And then you can get out.
Maybe I've watched too many movies, but if someone is going through the trouble to choke you in a car, they are most likely going to have a garrotte. A proper garrotte, will cut both carotids, before you can do anything.
If they have any idea how lethal a bit of wire and a couple pieces of wood or metal can be. Most people don't bother looking for piano wire, they just get the idea of using rope/twine. Or they're squeemish about blood.
Load More Replies...#4 push button on head rest and lift all the way until it comes out, release neck stab asshole in the back with the metal bars.
It's cute how he thinks the knot will be a nice fun slipknot. No. Odds are, you're being choked manually, by someone hold an item of some sort, like a length of cloth or garotte, and cut off blood flow to your brain, crush your hyoid (if they're really going for it) and you're done. ---- source: Ciftizens Police Academy. AKA: In real life...
Your real life rules don't apply to tikfuck "experts", don't you see that?
Load More Replies...What To Do In A Carjacking
Here's what to do if someone tries to steal your car. Full disclosure: this only works if you're by yourself or the items that you're leaving behind are replaceable. "Get out of the car, now." Now they just want my car, so I'm gonna comply. I have a panic button that's called an Invisawear. I press it twice. The moment I get out of the car to give him the car, I'm gonna push my phone and the Invisawear and just drop it underneath the seat. What that does is it's gonna signal the police to come to this location of my car. I'm still fine, he just wants my car, and they will arrest them.
I'm going to get out of the car now! That kind of NOW means dont grab for anything at all because if you make one move to do that you're going to get shot because they'll think you're reaching for a gun.
If You Are Sleeping And Get Kidnapped
Much like the zipties, duct tape is extremely hard to break like that. You'd be better off chewing through it.
I have been following dutchintheusa Tik Tok for awhile and If you follow the tips he gives you, you can be out in no time. I’ve even tried to see if i could get out of the duct tape and I did by following his tips
Load More Replies...That's not much duct tape the bad guys used here. He knows very economy-minded bad guys.
How To Escape A Chokehold
How to escape a chokehold. So your first step is to move up your shoulder, lift up your arm, and go over. So in this next technique you're gonna focus on this first hand, push this away, and with your shoulder, you're gonna push out.
If it's a life or death situation, use your fingers and stab the attacker's eyes.
Yes, and I like a nice knee or foot into the balls as well.
Load More Replies...This doesn't work. My dad had me in this hold, and my feet weren't even on the ground, so all I got was more beating. You also need to practice, train, etc., so... go for eyes. Always go for eyes. Sudden lunging toward eyes makes almost *anyone* flinch backwards. Source: Real life. Alas.
Or grab his balls and crush them. He will not be able to keep hold of you.
Needed this with my ex-husband. Of course, I was holding our 6-month old daughter at the time...
Oh my God I'm so sorry for that! I hope you are both safe now
Load More Replies...Self Defense
Have you ever tried to use this to defend yourself at night? I've got a better option for you. People use this to defend themselves, but the problem with that is the moment you hit something, it cuts into your own skin. Now something like this is used to break windows in a car, but it's also very effective for self-defense. You're going to move your side sideways, and you stab. Now if you have none of that, the best thing you can do in these kinds of situations is go for the neck.
I bought a pack of these and gave them to my kids . These suckers are lethal. Way better than keys and way better than those cat keychains
Keep a big key with lots of solid large surated points. It doesn't have to be one you use. Just buy a big key from the hardware store, and when walking hold it so the back lies straight along the inside of your index finger. The rest of the keys are held tightly in your hand. It cannot be seen that you are holding a weapon. Whatever part of skin you can get at, give a good hard pull and scrape. This can almost dig straight through someone's cheek, or if you can get at the hands, that can open up some veins.
20 tips for existing in a collapsed nightmare society where one needs to plan ahead for school shootings and a stay in a hotel is essentially a seige.
Awesome way to get arrested for going equipped for burglary. Just buy a pen-knife.
I have a tactical pen (with a glass breaker tip). I have gone through all kinds of security, many times and have never been questioned about it, except once. That one time I told him it was a pen (which it was), and he let me go about my business.
Load More Replies...Good idea! I'll gust buy a gun and take it to school! (Sarcasm) That's a f*****g stupid idea
Load More Replies...Your Home's Weakest Entry
Here's how people break into your house using a coat hanger and what to do about it. So here are the four things you can do about it. Number one: place a tie rip over the part that they push/pull down, number two: unplug the garage opener, number three: install a lock, that's what these are here for, and last but not least: please take out your garage opener. Too many people leave their cars open and this is all they need to get in.
The red cord is there to disconnect the garage door opener in an emergency. Fine to disable it if you are going away, but not if you are home, as you might need to use the garage to exit, or to stop it if something is trapped in the mechanism.
In what Universe do you live in, where Criminals are picking a Garage door as the means of breaking into your house?
Or lock the door from the garage into the house. I keep it locked and deadbolted even when I'm home unless I'm bringing in groceries.
If someone opens the garage with my car in the drive, they are going to have a very bad day. If they just steal the opener for later, I'll see the damage and take steps. I don't leave cars unlocked like my neighbors who can't believe someone "broke into their cars!" They didn't break in, they tried handles until they found the doofus that doesn't lock their doors. I call that a reward for their persistence in trying more doors.
If You Need To Sleep In Your Car In Sketchy Areas
Now some of you might have seen the video where they use the seat belt to go through here and they click it in if you're trying to sleep in your car so they can't open the door. Now what if there's no opening here? This one really bugged me and I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out. The first step is roll the window all the way down, use this to pull it all the way out, and open your door, you're gonna go over right here, all the way to this side right here, and keep it shut. Now you've got this. Now repeat it on the same side. Now once you set up the other side, I use two carabiners, one goes in here, and you've got a little bit of slack to get it in, and then you're gonna readjust it right here. You're gonna open your door a little bit, close the window, and you're all set. No one's gonna come into your car.
Thank you for taking the time to show/explain all this. I’m sure it would help in a lot of situations.
I don't know where he got his training but most of these will not work.
I dont know. 🤔 I tend to try to not drive anywhere that sketchy. I also keep my phone charged. Chances are that the "sketchy" is somewhere in a city. Get your phone. Dial 911. Tell them where you are, or they can find you. They can. Come get me!
And if you're ever chained by the ankles and being slowly lowered into a pit of lava, all you have to do is take off your parachute pants (this only works if you're wearing parachute pants) and hold them out to catch the hot air rising off the lava; you can float over to the edge of the pit. Keep your feet near the edge while the chain dips into the lava; it will then melt, and you'll be free! Easy-peasy.
A lot of these are unintelligible as still images with just the transcription of the words. Needs a full text description of what he is doing
He has a Tik Tok account. @dutchintheusa is his Tik Tok account
Load More Replies...He lives in a parallel universe. Nothing in this thread is something I worry about
I'm assuming you're a guy. Every woman I've ever known at the very least knows where all exit doors are and does a quick check of every room for potential harm.
Load More Replies...These are laughably ridiculous. Thank goodness I know how to escape from being kidnapped while asleep. Oh, but he's a Royal Marine... like that he's been trained to handle these goofy situations.
Most people will never experience any of these situations, if so many will experience fight, flight or freeze and the mind will go blank especially without regular routine self defense training, The best defense is a good offense. Situational awareness is key. Don’t allow people you don’t know to come close to you, carry pepper spray if needed. Keep a window breaking device in your car if you are worried about car being submerged in the water. If someone enters your car, EXIT YOUR CAR ASAP AND RUN, let him have the car, it’s not worth your life
I understand bad things can and do happen, but I just don't choose to live as someone who is absolutely terrified of every single thing and expects horrors to happen wherever I go. Apart from the fact most of these "tips" are impossible to understand with just the stills from the video, I would say that most of his solutions only work for young, fit, slim men like himself. Not much use if you are a very small person or a very big person.
And if you're ever chained by the ankles and being slowly lowered into a pit of lava, all you have to do is take off your parachute pants (this only works if you're wearing parachute pants) and hold them out to catch the hot air rising off the lava; you can float over to the edge of the pit. Keep your feet near the edge while the chain dips into the lava; it will then melt, and you'll be free! Easy-peasy.
A lot of these are unintelligible as still images with just the transcription of the words. Needs a full text description of what he is doing
He has a Tik Tok account. @dutchintheusa is his Tik Tok account
Load More Replies...He lives in a parallel universe. Nothing in this thread is something I worry about
I'm assuming you're a guy. Every woman I've ever known at the very least knows where all exit doors are and does a quick check of every room for potential harm.
Load More Replies...These are laughably ridiculous. Thank goodness I know how to escape from being kidnapped while asleep. Oh, but he's a Royal Marine... like that he's been trained to handle these goofy situations.
Most people will never experience any of these situations, if so many will experience fight, flight or freeze and the mind will go blank especially without regular routine self defense training, The best defense is a good offense. Situational awareness is key. Don’t allow people you don’t know to come close to you, carry pepper spray if needed. Keep a window breaking device in your car if you are worried about car being submerged in the water. If someone enters your car, EXIT YOUR CAR ASAP AND RUN, let him have the car, it’s not worth your life
I understand bad things can and do happen, but I just don't choose to live as someone who is absolutely terrified of every single thing and expects horrors to happen wherever I go. Apart from the fact most of these "tips" are impossible to understand with just the stills from the video, I would say that most of his solutions only work for young, fit, slim men like himself. Not much use if you are a very small person or a very big person.
