How to escape
You’ve probably read about 25-year-old Alabama nursing student Brittany Diggs who had to escape from the trunk of her own car when she was kidnapped earlier this month.
Our buddy, Mykel Hawke, sends us a link to the video he helped to make with the Today Show’s investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen to help you get out of the same situation;
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So, let this be a lesson to all would-be kidnappers. First, remove the escape pull tab before you put your victim in a car trunk. Second, bind the victim’s hands and, if time permits, feet as well. If you must allow your victim to remain conscious, a gag is also helpful inasmuch as screams emanating from a trunk can ruin your otherwise great plan. (This message has been brought to you by Kidnapping, Inc. A PowerPoint training video is available. Send $19.99 plus $13.00 for shipping and handling to: Kidnapping Training, P.O. Box 900, Newark, NJ 07028 –NJ Residents add 18% sales tax.
All you really need is a “rape van” – the old 15 passenger type with no glass in back.
But, since Matt Lauer is in that video, can we really trust this to not be “fake news”?
Yeah, I was thinking he belongs in a trunk.
In an abandoned salvage yard…
Ixnay on abandoned – a working salvage yard.
With a crusher….
Newer cars have done away with the pull tab. It’s now a glow in the dark piece on the latching mechanism itself. I know because we just got a 2017 last week. And being the meany that I am, I require my two teen daughters to test it out, just in case.
Carry a gun.
Problem solved.
If not a gun, then pepper spray in your pocket.
Pepper spray not so good. LE is moving away from it cuz you are almost as likely to get it on you when the bad guy moves in to fight. If the bad guy has a gun you are done.
A gun + training + situational awareness + sobriety is typically a winning combination.
For the readership of -this- site, locking someone in their own trunk might be on the same level as throwing Br’er Rabbit into the Briar Patch.
If someone locked me in my trunk first I would retrieve the tomahawk I keep in the spare tire well and use that to remove any bonds on me. Then I would use the two buttons inside the trunk to lower the rear middle seat and climb from the trunk into the passenger compartment with aforementioned tomahawk.
Oh I should also grab the Seal Pup out of my tool kit, I keep that in the trunk too.
So with the Knife and the tomahawk I climb into the passenger compartment of the car . . .
Don’t forget to put on your goalie mask, first.
No trunk. I have an Escape. It’s got that name for a good reason. I also cook.
I hope you can reach the handbrake before you deploy that tomahawk on the driver/kidnapper, or you might not like what those old physics laws of inertia do to your bod when the driver’s bod ceases to function.
I’m pissed! I bought a 2017 GMC Sierra PU with all the options. Now after watching this, I found out that it does not have that option to escape from the bed of the truck!
Your PU also does not have any space to keep a trunk monkey, unless you get a topper or tonneau cover.
Yeah, my SUVs lack that feature as well, Cacti
GREAT information that I was not aware of but forwarded to all in my email address book.
I kinda figured that my ever present .380 would handle it but this video is very, very informative!!
Good one, Jonn!
Not that anyone would want to kidnap my ass! lol
This is really good information, but I’m like the above poster, Matt Lauer needs to stay in that trunk.
Geezo pete, a spew alert, please!!!
WTF is this amateur bullshit? Zip Ties and Duct Tape her ass before you put her in the trunk. I can’t do everything.
I always keep Joe Teti’s number on speed dial…in case I find myself in one of these Survival moments.
I figure a pussy like Teti knows how to get out of scary dark places. What I would give to be locked in a trunk with that Teti bitch…I would like to test her survival skills.
I can’t imagine the horror of being locked in a trunk with a Jarhead.
Hell, the body odor alone…
Priceless!
It’s too early to be spitting my coffee. 🙂
…never mind the belching and farting in a closed space.
I didn’t know he was making the transition. Although I have heard he/she/it is one whiney bitch.