Comments on: Chances Bad Guy will leave you locked in a room full of handy things to construct an escape weapon/tool with

By: The Bobbert

The Bobbert — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:14:49 +0000

Has this been a real problem for you?

By: WorldsTallestMidget

WorldsTallestMidget — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:46:29 +0000

Or a MCGRUUUBERRRR!! joke as well.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:08:16 +0000

Yeah, dude, it depends…
Once here in Brazil a kidnapper left his victim in a room which had an axe inside…
The guy just killed the kidnapper and escaped
(Seriously, I’d get you the story, but it wuold be in Portuguese, so there’s no point. Maybe later I’ll translate it)

By: VictoriaJ

VictoriaJ — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:06:06 +0000

It’s still truly awesome that they built it though. And that the library actually had a book on the subject.

Sadder that they ate the cat.

By: dono1

dono1 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:06:47 +0000

That’s okay, we believe you.

By: forge

forge — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:10:54 +0000

Bar graph. Tiny bar: Real Lilfe; bigger bar: Movies; Gigantic bar off the top of the scale: A-Team.

By: Radar

Radar — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:29:40 +0000

See this is why I only tangle with really stupid badguys…which makes me wonder how I keep getting captured in the first place

By: InoxFY

InoxFY — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:27:55 +0000

you forgot room escape games,
and also
adequate graphical representation fail, you should’ve used a bar chart

By: Me

Me — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:28:34 +0000

Macgyver FTW

By: merp

merp — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:05:12 +0000

Definitely thought of Captain Kirk defeating the Gorn. Except Kirk had a whole planet and piles of powder sitting around.

By: o-range

o-range — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:06:55 +0000

There was a little girl who was kidnapped, some years back, who used a MacGyver trick to escape – when the kidnapper bound her wrists she flexed them so that she had a little bit of wiggle room, and she was able to get unbound and make her escape. Darnit, I can’t find a link… (will keep looking).

By: Decoy Shigure

Decoy Shigure — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:41:46 +0000

Ok, I feel like I have to tell a story.

One time in high school, I was taking a weight training course, and found out the hard way that the bathroom in the weight room doesn’t open from the inside anymore. I didn’t normally use the restroom there, but the controls to the stereo system were in there.

One day, some douche bags decided to be douche bags and invited me to change the music while closing the door on me, effectively locking me inside.

Trapped. And no sign of a handy tool to aide my escape.

Or was there? Yep, you guessed it. The stereo system. Let’s see if I can find some good AM static on the air: success! Let’s see if I can find the volume knob: success! Let’s see how high this stereo goes: loud enough to get the door open within 7 seconds.

Escape successful!

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:38:57 +0000

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:37:22 +0000

They never flew the glider. Sad.

By: mamarosa

mamarosa — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:21:42 +0000

What should they have ended it with?

This is NO time to talk about grammar..

15 seconds MacGruber!!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:48:24 +0000

Ending sentence with a preposition fail.

By: VictoriaJ

VictoriaJ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:11:23 +0000

It DOES occassionally happen in real life. One of the real life attempts to escape from Colditz involved building a glider. They’d actually found a book in the prison library which told them how to do it…

Which also stands as one of the few real life occassions which you feel should be covered by the Evil Overlord list.

By: M.Z.

M.Z. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:51:28 +0000

Unless you were going for percents…chances that this graph makes any sense 2.37%

By: Mcgyvr

Mcgyvr — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:20:52 +0000

I’d get out of an entirely empty room. Just like the real MacGyver.

By: Lavitz

Lavitz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:54:52 +0000

Ironman FTW!

By: Tasaio

Tasaio — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:47:33 +0000

Ehm, the use of a pie chart is really weird.

And indeed, where is the MacGyver reference!?

By: Murray

Murray — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:31:07 +0000

or Adam James

By: Murray

Murray — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:30:38 +0000

How many people have actually been locked up in a room by a bad guy anyway? Other than by the parents.

By: Yeah

Yeah — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:24:33 +0000

I think you wanted a bar graph for this. Also, you missed a chance to make a “MacGyver” joke here.