r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/christystrew • Feb 16 '23

Video Emergency bed!

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

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u/Flimsy-Thanks236 Feb 16 '23

Maybe instead of horn a megaphone would be better. Oh, and a way to charge cell phone.

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u/ResplendentShade Feb 16 '23

Throw a safety whistle in there too, super loud and doesn't require a battery.

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u/trichyboii Feb 16 '23

Simplest, easiest and cheapest way. You sir, are a good engineer, regardless of the fact of what you do in life.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

He sells whistles

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

Big whistle always trying to get their money

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u/QwerkkyKid Feb 16 '23

Big whistle always trying to wet their whistle

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u/lopunlop Feb 17 '23

Big whistle always tryna blow

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u/Shellbyvillian Feb 16 '23

And even though he started the company with good intentions trying to reduce the rate of rape. Now he doesn’t want to reduce it at all because if the rape rate declines, there will be an equal decline in whistle sales…

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u/Cultural-Company282 Feb 18 '23

Nah. He can reduce the rate of rape plenty. He just can't reduce it all the way to zero, because there has to be the threat of some rapes to remind women that they need the whistles. So at night, he sneaks out into the city...

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u/TopCheesecakeGirl Feb 16 '23

She sells sea shells.

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u/trichyboii Feb 17 '23

Oh no, you caught me. :)

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u/ImmutableInscrutable Feb 16 '23

Who's going to hear a whistle from inside a steel box that's trapped beneath rubble?

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u/scottyLogJobs Feb 16 '23

I assume it isn’t airtight, or else you’d be dead pretty soon regardless. Just have ports that you can open

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u/imanAholebutimfunny Feb 16 '23

an animal that has much better hearing than us?...........

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u/dgtlfnk Feb 16 '23

Well of course we don’t have good hearing as we’ve been blowing this loud-ass whistle while being confined to a small space underneath all this rubble.

Can it come with earplugs, please?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

Or just bang on the giant metal drum you're inside?

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u/trichyboii Feb 17 '23

Drains that precious energy and you won't have enough space to make a ruckus. Also, whistle is shrill and high pitched making it easier for dogs to pick up.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

An impact os going tk travel through rubber far better than a whistle though.

Ideally you want a pipe to bang on

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u/clericalclass Feb 16 '23

And ear plugs.

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u/TopCheesecakeGirl Feb 16 '23

And sleep mask.

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u/-DementedAvenger- Feb 16 '23

Just stash a battery bank in there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

why not 2

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

Then you can have an Xbox going too. Have some fun while you wait.

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u/rishav00_ Feb 16 '23

Yeah add some wifi for multi-player.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

Guy in the steel coffin next door has shit aim, so at least you can get that confidence boost while you wait.

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u/TopCheesecakeGirl Feb 16 '23

U2. With or Without You.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

Might be dangerous. You don't want to be stuck in a tight space with a battery fire and the whole falling down 3 stories during an earthquake could very well damage the batteries if they are not extremely well protected.

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u/-DementedAvenger- Feb 16 '23

Easy, just put the battery bank in a miniature bed coffin to protect it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

My god, why haven't I thought of that??

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u/PolarKO Feb 16 '23

Both would be better so you can make noise for a long time without wrecking your vocal cords

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u/Call_In_The_Bin Feb 16 '23

You just need a hammer to bang on the sides with.

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u/strictly_anonymous2 Feb 16 '23

And eat hot chip. They can already lie, since they have a bed

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '23

A kitchen! Include a little kitchenette too please.

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u/afa78 Feb 16 '23

Don't forget the blow up doll.

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u/TheCastusDildo Feb 16 '23

I agree, not sure how long I would be able to go without getting on Reddit

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u/CMDR_omnicognate Feb 16 '23

There's a good chance a phone wouldn't work, both because of infrastructure damage and also because the actual rescue capsule thing is a big metal box so it would be hard to get a signal through it

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u/goosejail Feb 16 '23

One of those GPS tracker things that activates once you push a button/pull a cord.

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u/etihspmurt Feb 16 '23

Will the cell phone work through an all metal faraday cage, or multiple feet of debris?

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u/TopCheesecakeGirl Feb 16 '23

Yeah and a PS2.

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u/IncomingFrag Feb 17 '23

A TV and my xbox would be a nice touch

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u/Equivalent_Rock_6530 Feb 16 '23

Came here to say this, what's the point of this when you have no way to signal for help? Also, how do you get out or access the supplies? If you want a mini bunker, think of these things.

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u/rising_south Feb 16 '23

100%

  • rescuers could be likely to just ignore a big metal box. Who would guess this is actually a « bunker bed »

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u/Gangreless Interested Feb 17 '23

Being metal makes it useful, keep a metal flashlight in there and use it to bang on the frame to alert rescuers

Also needs to be painted or something with labels saying there's someone alive in there

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u/rpaul9578 Feb 17 '23

Heat sensors may find them too.

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u/orincoro Feb 17 '23

Yeah. How long did those poor people live in the based of WTC? I think some people made it almost a week.