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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook | 
| Author: Joshua Piven
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  203 reviews
Sales Rank: 15253
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.5
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
ASIN: B000977ULQ
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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Amazon.com Review
How to Wrestle Free from an Alligator: 4. If its jaws are closed on something you want to remove (for example, a limb), tap or punch it on the snout. Though it's being marketed as a humorous title--after all, it's unlikely you'll be called upon to land a plane, jump from a motorcycle to a moving car, or win a swordfight--the information contained in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is all quite sound. Authors Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht consulted numerous experts in their fields (they're cited at the end of the book) to discover how to survive various and sundry awful events. Parachute doesn't open? Your best bet for survival is to hook your arms through the straps of a fellow jumper's chute--and even then you're likely to dislocate both shoulders and break both legs. Car sinking in water? Open the window immediately to equalize pressure, then open the car door and swim to the surface. Buried in an avalanche? Spit on the snow--it will tell you which direction is really up. Then dig as fast as you can. Each survival skill is explained in simple steps with helpful illustrations. Most stress the need to be prepared--both mentally and physically. For example, to escape from quicksand, you will need to lay a pole on the surface of the quicksand, flop on your back atop the pole, and pull your legs out one by one. No pole? No luck. "When walking in quicksand country, carry a stout pole--it will help you get out should you need to." Hopefully you'll never need to know how to build a fire without matches, perform a tracheotomy, or treat a bullet wound. But in the words of survival evasion resistance escape instructor "Mountain" Mel Deweese, "You never know." --Sunny Delaney
Product Description
Danger! It lurks at every corner. Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do? The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help: jam-packed with how-to, hands-on, step-by-step, illustrated instructions on everything you need to know FAST-from detecting a bomb to delivering a baby in the back of a cab. Providing frightening and funny real information in the best-selling tradition of the Paranoid's Pocket Guide and Hypochondriac's Handbook, this indispensable, indestructible pocket-sized guide is the definitive handbook for those times when life takes a sudden turn for the worse. The essential companion for a perilous age. Because you never know...
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 just enough to be dangerous December 7, 2009
Haley Justin (New Mexico)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Irresponsible. Promoting surviving anything in a few paragraphs of information is a set up for leaving the gene pool at an accelerated rate. Common sense and real life emergency scenarios have proven this for decades. Fun for the coffee table and wannabe only.
Fun Book - Great Gift! October 19, 2009
G. Griffith (Minneapolis, MN)
I personally have owned this book for a number of years. It is a fun, quirky coffee table book and a great conversation starter. I gave copies to all my groomsmen to ensure they get out of any sticky situations.
 How to survive anything!! August 7, 2009
Reacher Creature (Rochester)
First off, before I get to the review, I have to say that this is a great read! It does inform a lot, but it's also funny. Sure, some of the things may seem far fetched and you'll never have to use them. That being said, some of them could come in useful. The one that jumps out at most useful is if your car is sinking. That was a very interesting read. Some others are could be useful, but a lot of them is something that I'd never need, but it was an entertaining read. I'll go over a few of them.
How to break into a car. The best and funniest part was at the end when the authors said, "This is to break into your own car." *LOL*
How to hot-wire a car. I had to laugh at the first sentence: Lift that hood. Dang! That's what I was doing wrong all of these years, I never opened the hood. D'OH!!
How to fend off a shark. They forgot to mention one thing that I'd do.....wet my bathing suit! I'm sure that would deter a shark. If I wet my suit, the shark would be like, "Yo! That's nasty, what's the matter with you!? Freak!"
How to wrestle free from an alligator. Now *this* could come in handy. How many times does an alligator come up to you and start pushing you around just because he's all big and tough? In the past, I'd run off because it's an alligator. HA! Now the joke is on him. I'll know how to deal with him. When a gator rolls up on me actin' all tough, I'll be like, "Yo, back up b*tch! Best you get steppin' or I'll turn you into boots, belt and a wallet chump! That's right, keep walkin'." Then, I'll do some rude hand gesture, just show him who's boss. What can I say, that's how I roll.
How to take a punch. Okay, as useful as this was, it didn't cover everything. It mentioned, the gut and jaw, ect...but...what about a punch to the privates?? Hey, that's happens to me more than you think. I'll be walking minding my own business, then KA-POW!! Right in the package! I mean, we have to protect the family jewels, right??
How to Perform a Tracheotomy:It said, I'll need a knife. What, all of a sudden I'm MacGYVER now?? I have to carry a pocket knife with me at all times?? I'm sure the police will love that. I can see it now, "But officer, you don't understand. I need my knife incase if I have to perform a Tracheotomy. Boy won't you feel stupid if I have to perform one, and because of you, I don't have my handy-dandy knife."
How to maneuver on top of a moving train and get inside: Come on, doesn't that happen to all of us?
How to deliver a baby in a taxi cab: I know all about making them....now I know how to deliver them.
How to treat a bullet or a knife wound: Now I'm all set. I know how to do this. I can see it now. I'm walking down the street (after kicking an alligators butt) then KA-PRANG someone is shot and on the ground. I can jump into action. Someone might say, "But there's a hospital next door, look, there it is, right there." I'll say, "Damn it man, I'm not a GPS system, but I can get that bullet out! Where's my knife??"
How to land a plane: Okay, this was interesting! If I'm on a plane, and one of the flying waitresses comes running out in a panic with her hair all mussed up from being all extra panicy, yelling, "Both pilots are dead, can someone land this plane?? Heeeeeeeelpppp!!! I can jump up and say, "Fear now you flying waitress, I'll save the day! Get me a head set and a diet coke!" Okay, I don't need the diet coke, but heck, I do likes that beverage.
How to survive if your parachute doesn't open: If that happens and your back up parachute doesn't open....well...yer pretty much screwed.
How to get to the surface if your scuba tank runs out of air: Um..... I'll take a guess..... you could....let's see....maybe swim to the surface? Just a thought.
In all honesty, it was an entertaining read! Get it and you won't be sorry.
Especial dissapointment, exceedingly lame. February 11, 2009
Officer Doofy
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
There is not a single inventive tip or trade secret contained in this book. Every situation's "solution" is as boring as you would expect in grade school, from your mother, etc. The typical solution involves 1. Staying calm and 2. Finding help. WOW. What a waste of time.
Here's a preview: If you think that you are being followed: 1. Stay calm 2. Don't let your follower know that you are aware of him/her 3. Walk to the nearest police station.
You can expect similar excitement from the rest.
Not what I ordered January 23, 2009
E. Bushey
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I ordered a Brand New copy of this book, with express shipping so it would be guaranteed to arrive before Christmas. Not only did my book not arrive as scheduled (and as I paid extra for) but it was a used copy with marking on the cover.
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