What Would You Do????????????

[Sowelu]

A Cave-in occurs while you and a stranger are in a concrete room deep in a mine shaft. Before the phone goes dead, you learn the entire mine is sealed and the air hole being drilled will not reach you for 30 hours. If you both take sleeping pills from the medicine chest, the oxygen will last for only 20 hours. Both of you can't survive;alone, one of you might!
After you both realize this, the stranger takes several sleeping pills, says that it is in God's hands, and falls asleep. You have a pistol; What do you do?

[kblackthorne]

Drop into deep meditation and attempt to reduce my rate of respiration & heart rate.

The decreasing oxygen levels should actually make acheiving the state easier, and once there, it is a simple enough matter to alter such things.

[Sowelu]

Mmmmm, interesting!:)

[Cat Goddess]

i agree with katherine ..... and if i find myself dieing i would embrace it

[WandererInGray]

*grins* Not to rain on the hypothetical parade.

But the air vents in mining shafts are not located *within* the shaft itself (to the best of my knowledge) to compensate for just such an event....they are an independant shaft.

And if there were a cave in, that'd have to be a pretty big room to have 20 hours worth of oxygen in it.

*winks*

[Man/Wolf]

I'd shove the rest of the sleeping pills up the strangers nose and tape his mouth.

[Sowelu]

:rotfl:

[Earthcup]

:rotfl:

I would have a pen in my pocket and would write dirty limericks on his body and a prayer that his God forgive him for being a jacka$$ and that mine take appropriate revenge, in this life or the next.

Then, I would sink into meditation, perhaps try to establish a connection with the rescue crew. If I heard nothing after 15 hours I would fire the gun upward to attract attention.

Then I'd write a bestseller and go on Oprah if I'm rescued. :D

[Earthcup]

:lol: I thought there were only two sleeping pills and the stranger took them both!

In that case I'd probably take one myself but I might still write a Nantucket limerick on his forehead :devil:

[shnen]

wait, what else is in the medicine chest???

[Earthcup]

Yeah, any Juliet potions? :D

oh wait, if they find you they might bury you and you'd be out of the frying pan and into the fire.....

[Niamh]

What I want to know is how you came up with this scenario and why?! ;) Very odd.

I'd go with the meditation. Although I have to admit I wouldn't have been swift enough to come up with that on my own. I'm sure in real life I would panic like hell and take the sleeping pills. :)

[Man/Wolf]

Earthcup, there was no quantity of pills specified. It says if you both take them, not if you take them both. Just a clarification.

:zzz:

[Phoenix Blue]

. . .

What am I doing with a pistol, and what was anyone else doing trusting me with one?

:nyah:

[Myst]

Well if there were any sleeping pills left I'd take 'em, after I pistol whipped the bugger :lol:

[Earthcup]

a dig in the valley of the kings and you're security? :huh:

[Annika]

Um.....how odd is it that there is a medicine chest in a lone concrete room deep in a mine???

Just my first thought.....:)

Anyway, I like Katherine's idea of meditation. However, I'd probably panic, instead. After that, I don't know....it's all a panic blur, while the stranger sleeps on peacefully.

Annika

[Dellit Tandannon]

i'd end up cracking and either shooting the person, myself, or the both of us. lol

damn, that's not funny....

[Earthcup]

Originally posted by Dellit Tandannon
i'd end up cracking and either shooting the person, myself, or the both of us. lol

damn, that's not funny....

:rotfl:

I don't think I'd go down in an underground shaft to begin with. I'm a slight claustrophobic.

Not to mention I'll never understand why they built the Walmart over the mine shaft's they give tours of...... :lol:

[Mythrel]

my survival instincts would kick in and I would attempt to relax and sleep, doing anything to keep the oxygen levels up...
but eventually I would probably end up shooting the guy...

[flar7]

Originally posted by Myst
Well if there were any sleeping pills left I'd take 'em, after I pistol whipped the bugger :lol:

wouldnt you burn up a lot of energy and oxygen that way?
although, you get credit for not firing the gun and burning
oxygen....

Are there bullets for the pistol?

Hmmmm, being the heroic cowardly sort, I would try to overdose
on the sleeping pills so as to induce coma and hope that would
stretch the time....also may want to make sure skippy really took
his pills and werent faking it until I was out! heheh

[Myst]

heh

really I don't have an anger problem :D

[Enchantedlight]

I love these trick questions, the answer is easy peasy, breath thru one nostril, thus only using half the oxygen.
Next question please!

[xjsjaglvr]

The guy is sleeping so he won't feel a thing. Bang over and done with. Tell the rescuers he commited suicide, he did in philosophical way. And I would do it right away, more air for me. Sorry but humans have a natural instinct to live. I choose LIFE!

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by JadeDragonfly
A Cave-in occurs while you and a stranger are in a concrete room deep in a mine shaft. Before the phone goes dead, you learn the entire mine is sealed and the air hole being drilled will not reach you for 30 hours. If you both take sleeping pills from the medicine chest, the oxygen will last for only 20 hours. Both of you can't survive;alone, one of you might!
After you both realize this, the stranger takes several sleeping pills, says that it is in God's hands, and falls asleep. You have a pistol; What do you do?

Give him the rest of the pills so he OD's and dies. Failing this, shoot him (make it appear self-inflicted). Live a long time and die an old man.

[someone else]

panic, kill the guy, and use his bones to dig out

[Justin Wyatt]

find where the rescuers are drilling and dig in the same spot and meet them in 15 hours:razz:

If that didnt work id probaly end up shooting myself, i just couldnt kill someone. :uzi:

[Myst]

Originally posted by Enchantedlight
I love these trick questions, the answer is easy peasy, breath thru one nostril, thus only using half the oxygen.
Next question please!

lol don't you think you'd just breathe faster and more deeply with the other one then?

[Theres]

this is just weird!

[LadyWinter]

I would like to seem all deep and talk about my meditational techniques and calming karma and mantras........But lets be real...I would shoot him the second I found the gun. I want to live to see to many things and dying in a room with some stranger is "hopefully" just not on the agenda.

Slan Astar
LadyWinter

[Danustouch]

pssst. Greenman. check your PM's!

[GreenDawn]

Originally posted by Earthcup
:lol: I thought there were only two sleeping pills and the stranger took them both!

In that case I'd probably take one myself but I might still write a Nantucket limerick on his forehead :devil:

:lol:

I guess I would take more sleeping pills- of course, I have a high tolerence so it would only relax me and make me giggly. I would have to agree with Earthcup- I would PD- Eye him (hey, I would hold my breath and control my breathing) Also, Cover his head with some sort of cotton cloth (flannel shirt, shower curtain, or towel)- this would prevent him from hogging all the air while he is in his deep sleep-/snore stage- Also will prevent you art work on his face from being smudged by his clumsy itch he may feel on his face later on. If you are asleep- how can you control the breathing?

[WandererInGray]

*smiles*

Stranger is entirely too easy.

What if it was someone you loved? Like a dear friend, relative, or even a lover?

[gunner]

the pistol is irrelevant, if you use it to shoot the stranger and are rescued you will be prosecuted for murder. also, if you fire it in that environment the muzzle flash may trigger a methane gas explosion you likely will not survive, if you use it to commit suicide you have not survived. if you take the sleeping pills you may possibly slow your respiration down to where you might still be alive when the rescue party holes through, if not then at least you'll likely die in your sleep without knowing it's happening.

[kblackthorne]

. .

What am I doing with a pistol, and what was anyone else doing trusting me with one?



What, Phoenix, you haven't been issued a side-arm?

[StarryDancer]

:rotfl:

I'm not sure WHY I find this funny. Earthcup, love your solutions!

As for me, I'd opt for the sleeping pills AND a meditative trance. If the oxygen gives out, tough. There are worse ways to go.

[Phoenix Blue]

Sayeth kblackthorne:
What, Phoenix, you haven't been issued a side-arm?

:lol: You're kidding, right? I'm Air Force, not Army. . .

Hon, the only folks on the installation that have weapons issued are the cops, and I'm not sure they even carry bullets in theirs. . .

[gunner]

"What, Phoenix, you haven't been issued a side-arm?"

is he complaining? i have to buy my own at circa $500.00 a whack and 15 shot magazines at $50.00 apiece for my 9mm and reload my own practise ammo. oh well, at least i don't have to carry a glock or beretta which is a blessing.

[kblackthorne]

Sorry, Phoenix, I forget.

My mom was Army, but when I came to live with her, she was stationed at the Sacramento Army Depot... which was so small as to be no-existant. So when we had to go to the Commisary, the BX, or the hospital, we went to one of the two Air Force bases.

So in my head, the two forces get a bit co-mingled. :)

And yes, most of that comment was in jest anyway. :nyah:

I've just grown up around guns all my life. (Hunting rifles stored -- locked -- under my bed when I was small. Learned to shoot my grandfather's pistol when I was 9. Hunting license at 14. And every man my mother's married has kept loaded pistols hidden under chair-cushon & on their person. I just take fire-arms for granted... and have been shown to never even think of reaching for them in a crisis.) And the idea of someone in the military acting weird about a fire-arm...

It stuck me as humorous.

So I harrassed you.
:razz:

So tell me Phoenix... are the things Mom said when my cousin joined the AF true? Tennis shoes in Basic, etc.? :devil:


*Note: I have had family members in every brach of the military except Marines. Two, however, were older cousins I was never very close to...

[gunner]

"Learned to shoot my grandfather's pistol when I was 9. "

'fraid my grand daughter has you beat, she started learning on her grandmother's old llama .22 pistol this past fall just after her 6th birthday and she got a kid sized .22 single shot rifle for yule. she's already very firm about her safety rules too. darndest thing to see, 3 1/2 feet tall standing up on the line with the big folks in her camouflage sweatshirt, yellow shooting glasses, ear protectors and bright pink "shooting hat" popping away with the .22 in a two hand "combat hold".

[Dancin Girl]

What I want to know, is where were all of you people with your creative solutions when I had to do make an attempt to solve these same type of questions in an entire semester of one after another such scenarios for an interpersonal relationships and management class????? And, Yes, Wanderer.... much more of a dilemma when the other is a known person with you!! But, the stranger is an unknown quantity... how would you feel if after the exercise was over and you did of course struggle over your decision to aid that person along in their demise, that said stranger was pregnant lady..... or let's say you opted to take your chances and possibly do yourself in and the said stranger was a lone elderly person with a terminal illness who was going to die soon anyway, and you by knocking yourself unconcious, took away their one last chance to have someone hold them and comfort them as they left the world?

[Dellit Tandannon]

holy crap! i think we're thinking about this one a little too much now

[Dancin Girl]

Sorry, Like I said, I suffered through an entire semester of this stuff!!:eek: You would just finish struggling through one only to arrive in class the next morning with another wonderful sealed envelope sitting on your desk waiting for the big answer to What Would You do??? Sometimes you had to tackle it on your own, sometimes, you had to suffer through it in a group and come to a mutual majority decision on what to do!!!

[kblackthorne]

Earliest gun memory:

4 years old, my step father is getting ready to go hunting, has the long-guns out on the table. Being taught how to hold a gun (at that point, straight up!), what a trigger is, etc. And that I must never, ever, touch one (gun) unless I asked & a big person was holding it for me. ~smiles~ Raised with 'em, took 'em for granted... and took gun safety for granted, too.

I hear about these 9-year-olds gettting into daddy's gun-locker, or finding mommy's handgung & firing it, and I wonder -- why weren't these kids taught from day 1? You don't see that kind of drek in hunting families -- we learn as toddlers that stoves are hot, cars are big, and guns are dangerous. And just like the first two, we learn how to handle them when we're older.

[Earthcup]

Only once did I ever take out a gun without my parents permission. My mom had run to the store for a minute and my brother and I were watching cartoons. I was around ten so he would have been seven.

I heard someone outside but I didn't hear a car pull up. I put my brother in my mom and dad's room and grabbed my little Red Ryder BB gun. I double checked to make sure it wasn't loaded and put the safety on. Then I turned on cartoons in there and sat between my brother and the door holding the gun.

I think I'd been grounded from the phone or something and in my infinte wisdom decided that if an intruder came through that door he would be scared because he'd think the gun was loaded.

My mom came home about ten minutes later. I told her what happened and put up the gun. She told me to never to take it out again without permission and explained calling 911 was ok even if I was grounded from using the phone.

Which is why I don't keep a gun near my bedroom. :D

[SimplyStrange]

:lol: knowing me, I'd panic and run around like a beheaded chicken firing all my bullets into the air, causing the ceiling to collapse and crush us both... Or I'd likely shoot myself in the foot, and the sound would wake the guy, and we'd end up being in the same predicament we were in in the first place... only I'd be bleeding. o.O

Damnit, why can't the workers go faster? *panics* Uh oh *pant pant* I'm using up *pant* all my oxygen!

*faints*

And that is how it would go... :D

[manstranger]

Forget sleeping pills. I'd shake him awake and be myself until he killed me or he killed himself. Its the fairest way.

[manstranger]

Originally posted by kblackthorne
Earliest gun memory:

4 years old, my step father is getting ready to go hunting, has the long-guns out on the table. Being taught how to hold a gun (at that point, straight up!), what a trigger is, etc. And that I must never, ever, touch one (gun) unless I asked & a big person was holding it for me. ~smiles~ Raised with 'em, took 'em for granted... and took gun safety for granted, too.

I hear about these 9-year-olds gettting into daddy's gun-locker, or finding mommy's handgung & firing it, and I wonder -- why weren't these kids taught from day 1? You don't see that kind of drek in hunting families -- we learn as toddlers that stoves are hot, cars are big, and guns are dangerous. And just like the first two, we learn how to handle them when we're older.
**puts on dork hat**

Cause we all live in the suburbs. If you wonder what i'm talking about, goto the suburbs. Its a scary place filled with stupid people who smile alot. My suburbs are, anyway.

[kblackthorne]

goto the suburbs.

No.

Can't make me.

The first 15 minutes of "Edward Scissorhands" scared me silly -- gave me nightmares for weeks!

The suburbs are Eee-Ville!

[Earthcup]

That was the freakiest town.... if that's what Burbank looks like (Burton's hometown) I never wanna go there!