Posted on 04/10/2011 5:31:25 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Zoltan Hites clamped a pair of handcuffs around his wife Christine's wrists, helped her into the trunk of a car parked in a parking garage, slammed the lid and waited for her to escape.
Less than five minutes later, the trunk popped open and Christine climbed out. Doesn't exactly seem like a romantic weekend, but they were learning how to make a quick getaway.
They're not spies-in-training. They're survivalists -- people who are dedicated to being ready for and surviving the worst-case scenarios.
The Hiteses paid about $800 a piece to join a dozen or so other people at a Los Angeles hotel for three-day retreat with onPoint Tactical. Under the supervision of instructor Kevin Reeve, the participants will learn extremely advanced survival skills, such as how to pick a handcuff lock with a bobby pin.
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Thanks Red!
Why did it take her 5 minutes to escape? The trunk of my car has a handle on the inside.
That woman should be afraid of the tanning salon.
Before you get loaded into a trunk make a particular point to fight to the death.
Before I am ever placed in the trunk of a car, my Kimber will be empty.
What do you do if you are bound with plastic ties? If things degenerated into lawlessness, why bother to hide someone in a car trunk? And why would someone kidnap some SAHM? Likely they would rob her, use her and kill her afterward.
Better to plan how you will stay warm/cool despite extreme energy inflation, hydrated, fed, have access to whatever medications you need and what skills you have to remain alive and productive.
Ping zing
With pretty much everything I have seen in the past, by the time a trend makes it to ABC (and the mainstream in general) it is a passing fad and has worked it’s way to self-parody. I hope that is not the case with survivalism.
First Aid, food storage and prep, improvised shelter, general situational awareness skills, marksmanship and tactical training, etc., are important skill sets that anyone should have.
If you are learning to get out of handcuffs in the trunk of a car, I would assume you have all the other basics covered. Frankly, I can’t imagine a scenario wherein I or my assailants would be alive to put put me in the damn trunk to begin with.
Hate to be the one to break it to you, but kidnappings are starting to happen along the US border.
We have lawlessness.....no need to degenerate into it.
Maybe not you, but what of your wife or child?
As societies degenerate and collapse, kidnapping soars. Even unplanned “express kidnappings” where the perps grab a target of opportunity based on factors such as race, sex, age, appearance of affluence, perceived value of car etc.
The best book on this is Fernando Aquirre’s “Modern Survival Manual,” based on his experiences in Argentina during the millenial economic collapse in Buenos Aires.
Yea, I am not discounting training on any front. We are importing some vile crap into the US every day and the examples from Mexico and Argentina are instructive. I would like to believe though that by the time you have worked your way to anti-kidnapping training you at least know basic first aid, food prep, and urban tactical defensive and survival skills.
Or even better, that you have your bunker compound in a rural area away from the kidnappy types ...
I obviously didn’t attend this training session, and we both have only a reporter’s description to work from...
That said, I’d guess that a primary reason for the trunk training was to impress upon the class the need to NEVER GET STUFFED INTO A TRUNK. Keep your eyes going 360, and fight like a wolverine before that happens. And regard your family members as potential kidnap victims at all times, and train them accordingly.
The odds of me ever having a bobby pin in my possession are pretty damned small considering I have no hair. LOL. I do however have a handcuff key on my key ring.
One never knows. They have come in handy at a couple of parties we’ve been to. LOL.
Ping.
Even in my wildest days, I've never been a party where I needed a handcuff key. You've been to several.
I'd like to have a beer with you some time.
Bump!
If you have never seen Richard Pryor’s monologue about letting somebody tie you up go look at it. Its hilarious but totally true.
Once you are tied up and in the trunk of a car you are basically screwed.
Same with fast food or convenience store employees, in the event of a robbery, never go willingly into the walk in cooler. Nothing good will happen there.
You can open plastic ties with a paper clip.
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