20 Popular Survival Myths That Not Only Are Wrong But Also Dangerous, Shared By People On Twitter

You should be compliant with demands until they want to take you somewhere else. At that point, you're dead either way

It's amazing, that there are people in other states (mainly in the US, I suppose), who see a serious chance that this could really happen to them. Back here in good old Germany that's more a kind of "What would you do, when you're walking in the dessert and a lion attacks you?"-thing. When here someone with a gun demands you to go with them, chances are high, that they are police officers...

Street smarts.

ALWAYS carry a weapon. NEVER go with anyone anywhere

I've always told my kids to drop, go limp, become dead weight. If they tell you to be quiet, be loud. If you don't actually see a weapon, through their pocket, it's possible they may not have one. (On a rare occasion maybe.) But if that crazy person says they'll hurt them if they make a noise, so what. Chances are it will be on camera and there could be witnesses. If you're quiet, and leave with the crazy, probably less witnesses and harder to find you or prove what happened. Note- I don't want my kids or anyone hurt, but if it's going to happen before they can be taken, I'd think they have better chances of survival that if they went with bad guy.

Many years ago I was stationed at Loring Air Force Base, Maine. (That base is now closed). One time there was a huge male moose on the runway. One of the base police driving an SUV-type vehicle decided to honk the horn at the moose to get it to move. The moose used its antlers to flip the vehicle over. I was working in an aircraft hanger and went outside just seconds after this happened. The moose was walking away, and I swear he had a satisfied smirk on his face.

Moose are MUCH larger and bulkier than you think they are.

Meese are terrifying

Deer knock cars off the road and I've heard of them jumping through windshields. Moose are MUCH larger. They get the right of way.

I looked it up, the last "moose derailing train" story I could find was from 2006 in Norway. They get hit by trains a lot, it seems. Poor moose. moose-636d...3-jpeg.jpg

This is ridiculous. I would absolutely beat an elephant in a dance off.

Win what and beat them at what? Win a fight, a running race, a weightlifting competition, an extreme temperature endurance challenge, a memory test, a puzzle-solving test? WHAT??

how in the f**king world would a human beat an elephant XD

They need to see the picture of the lady attacked by someone’s “pet” chimp…

That’s because the USA rates 27th in the world in education. Stop trying to ‘pet’ bison, bears, mountain lions…and no, you can’t win in a fight.

Alcohol is a vasodilator (makes your blood vessels expand in diameter). That increases blood flood to the smaller blood vessels in your extremities, thereby increasing the rate of heat loss.

Well, yes and no. It doesnt raise your core temperatures, but can help people survive in cases of people being in extreme freezing temperatures One case was on another thread where a woman was actually frozen and survived and a bug therou was the alcohol in her system helped prevent her organs from freezing. Also, people who had high blood alcohol survived in ship wrecks, even the Titanic, or when being stuck in very cold water.

Mythbusters did that one. An interesting episode.

It draws out heat from your core and sends it to your skin I believe. It’s why you feel warm. But because it draws out heat from your CORE it actually makes you develop hypothermia even faster. Don’t quote me on that tho

Person A: "Boozing when freezing is like soiling your pants. Warm and comfy a while, then the freeze hits again, much harder!" Person B: "Whatever. Your pants, my flask!"

Martial arts are always better than not knowing how to defend yourself. Avoiding any fight is a useful skill.

I studied Kali (Philippine stick & knife fighting) for years after getting a black belt in Shotokan karate. One of the first things I learned from Kali was that in order to defend against a knife, you have to know how to use one. Most martial arts don't study bladed weapons, and teach their defenses incorrectly. My teacher was Rick Faye in Minneapolis, Mn. Google him, he is pretty well known.

Knife fighting is brutality at it’s worst. The winner goes to the hospital, the loser dies.

If Martial Arts and self defense were as successful as movies imply, you would 1) See tons of headlines of "person survives attack due to self defense classes" 2) Everyone would take said classes - INCLUDING THE ATTACKERS 3) Nobody would bother attacking with a knife if it puts you in the inferior position

Any real black belt would avoid fighting in most situations! -Black Belt/Taekwondo instructor

Adding to this a little bit of knowledge can also be dangerous. Lots of safe wild edible plants have similar lookalikes that are extremely dangerous if misidentified. Wild watercress vs hemlock water dropwort pop to mind as the latter is super poisonous, looks the same (so appears harmless) and can easily be mixed up.

I love to forage but certain things I just won’t touch as they have scary lookalikes, such as young puff balls yum 😋 And young death caps no yum ☠️

Into the Wild! A great book and movie, but also heartbreaking. This whole scenario plays a huge part in this story.

In survival training during Basic, 40 years ago, I learned one basic rule about this. If you think it's edible, try a tiny bit, see how you feel the next day. If you're okay, try a little more, but only a little. This was from one of those old blue paperback guides from WW2.