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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Your house is on fire, what do you grab?

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:26:01 PM EDT

sKerry protestors have lit your house on fire and unluckily you haven't checked the batteries in your fire detector for a while. The smoke awakes you and you only have a few minutes to grab what you can. Your wife, kids, and animals are staying at the grandparent’s house, so there is no need to worry about them, what do you take?

Jerad

EDIT: There is no way for you to put the fire out, if you try you will be wasting the time you have to grab your shit and get out.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:26:23 PM EDT

[#1]

I roll my gun safe out the door

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:26:51 PM EDT

[#2]

a fire extiguisher

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:27:35 PM EDT

[#3]

Guns, Birth certifecates, marriage liscence (if married), money, pictures.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:29:06 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
a fire extiguisher

+1 I can't just stand there and watch it burn.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:30:33 PM EDT

[#5]

List of Personal Property and Insurance Documents....oh did I forget to call the Fire Department?

MT

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:30:58 PM EDT

[#6]

whatever I could dump out the windows

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:32:23 PM EDT

[#7]

the first protestor i see

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:32:33 PM EDT

[#8]

My gun and kick the fire's ass!

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:33:41 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I roll my gun safe out the door

now you wouldn't have to do that if you had bought a fire proof one.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:34:08 PM EDT

[#10]

gasoline; matches; big A glass bottle

make a molatove cocktail, barbacue some kery supporters

put out the fire in my house

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:35:18 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I roll my gun safe out the door

now you wouldn't have to do that if you had bought a fire proof one.

Fireproof safes are akin to bulletproof vests.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:35:20 PM EDT

[#12]

Important papers, pics, carkeys,
Opps forgot to call the fire department

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:35:44 PM EDT

[#13]

...Well, important documents.

And my toys, with enough ammunition to dispatch the Kerry-supporters that DIDN'T manage to lit THEMSELVES on fire.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:37:29 PM EDT

[#14]

My pants, since I sleep COMMANDO STYLE.....

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:37:34 PM EDT

[#15]

the wife

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:37:36 PM EDT

[#16]

My calculator, pilots logbook, and the gun that I have here!

I am in Engineering school.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:37:53 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I roll my gun safe out the door

now you wouldn't have to do that if you had bought a fire proof one.

I dont want to burn the nice paint on it UMKAA

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:39:21 PM EDT

[#18]

cant forget to throw all the 17,000 rounds of ammo out of my closet OUCH BAng BANg all night with that fire

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:39:42 PM EDT

[#19]

x2 on the fire extuingisher! Hell, I have 2 in the house.
But, assuming they fail for some reaosn (because you'd make them) I'd grab my AD&D books, Remmy 1187 and Winchester .22lr. Then on the way by the door, my car keys, hat and waller.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:41:51 PM EDT

[#20]

my 2 high-pressure garden hoses and put it out. 3 fire alarms in the house. anything short of accelerated arson, I can handle.

But in the spirit of the question - my go-bag out the bedroom window, wallet, photo albums, removeable harddrives, in that order as time allows.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:43:05 PM EDT

[#21]

Roll the gun safe out the garage, then grab my camera case (which has in its pockets DVDs with all my digital pictures on them) and as many of my photo albums as I can save.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:46:50 PM EDT

[#22]

My pistol in the nightstand and my Computer. Too much stuff on it just to let it burn. The rest of my guns are in a fireproof safe. Oh yea my dog.

I would hate to see if the fire got that close to my gunsafe because all my reloading supplies are about 6 feet away. That would make a hell of a flame.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:47:09 PM EDT

[#23]

A bottle of Jack Daniels. If I gotta watch it burn, I prefer to be drunk.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:47:29 PM EDT

[#24]

Grab my nuts and run!

Screw it all, I'm insured to the hilt!

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:51:33 PM EDT

[#25]

After the family, not one freakin thing...just get the hell out. These are all items and reasons folks have run around inside a burning house trying to grab "those important things" and succumbed to smoke and gases, never to emerge. None of it is worth a damn if you're not around.

Posted: 10/6/2004 4:56:04 PM EDT

[#26]

Pictures and important papers.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:05:51 PM EDT

[#27]

I'd grab the wife. Don't think I could find another one that would put up with me.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:08:22 PM EDT

[#28]

important documents, cash, my handguns.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:09:44 PM EDT

[#29]

Nothing.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:10:02 PM EDT

[#30]

My 1911 off the nightstand, some pants and the Carhartt jacket off the floor, which has all my day-to-day crap in the pockets.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:10:43 PM EDT

[#31]

my family and my dog. Once outside start beating the F*CK out of those who started it.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:11:59 PM EDT

[#32]

My CPU (my whole life and job are on there), my AR (because I can't replace it in this state) and throw a couple of pairs of jeans out the window quickly. Everything else is just stuff.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:13:06 PM EDT

[#33]

My children.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:14:32 PM EDT

[#34]

my ass.

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:17:29 PM EDT

[#35]

My guns, my guitar and ammo to shoot those sons of bitches

Posted: 10/6/2004 5:23:00 PM EDT

[#36]

My dog and my FAL. All the other guns if possible.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:25:56 PM EDT

[#37]

the guns . anything else can be replace.

Posted: 10/6/2004 6:57:21 PM EDT

[#38]

When the furnace blew out in mine, it was pants, shoes (boots that I actually never wore much), and jacket. I challenge anyone to do much better

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:00:55 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
After the family, not one freakin thing...just get the hell out. These are all items and reasons folks have run around inside a burning house trying to grab "those important things" and succumbed to smoke and gases, never to emerge. None of it is worth a damn if you're not around.

+1 Just grab your family and GTFO...your really important papers and such should be in a fire-resistant safe or better yet, in a safe deposit box at the bank. Insurance will take care of the rest...

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:07:21 PM EDT

[#40]

Computer tower, papers, guns if time allows.

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:18:42 PM EDT

[#41]

G/f ,kids and get the fuck out, seen too many poeple thet tried to salvage propety while the house is burning, alot of them didnt make it back out , get the hell out and stay out, unless someone is still inside. Smoke will fuck you up big time and you lose it and then your bbq

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:23:10 PM EDT

[#42]

If possible, the keys to my truck....fk the rest. As long as I got that, and my wallet, I will be fine.
There are a lot of things I would miss....but nothing worth dying to save

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:34:39 PM EDT

[#43]

Wife and kids. Oh yeah, and Lila.

AB

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:41:59 PM EDT

[#44]

I'd throw my wallet, cell phone, bedside pistol (it'd only take a second, I might as well save it), and photo albums in a laundry basket and chuck them out the front door or a window, then I'd get my car out of the garage. Then call the FD with my cell phone from outside and get a garden hose and try to fight the fire from outside until they arrive -- or if the bad dudes are still there, that's why I saved my pistol.

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:51:01 PM EDT

[#45]

My filing cabinet that is set up for just that reason.

GM

Posted: 10/6/2004 7:52:31 PM EDT

[#46]

Pets out first, then try to rescue my guns,ammo. Then file a monster lawsuit next day and break the DNC.

Posted: 10/6/2004 8:01:50 PM EDT

[#47]

Wedding pics, baby pics, laptop, good jewelry, car keys, husband (since he is apparently not staying at the grandparents house).

Posted: 10/6/2004 8:04:20 PM EDT

[#48]

My stuffed fish.

Posted: 10/6/2004 11:52:54 PM EDT

[#49]

I'd grab a bag of chips, and a lawnchair. Then run down to the end of the street, sit down and enjoy seeing the skerry protesters become ingulfed in the mushroom cloud, when the fire reached my reloading room. Man, it would suck to be them.

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