What To Do if Your Hands are Duct Taped
Hopefully this knowledge never comes in handy, but I just wanted to share with you this link to a video of how to escape if your hands are duct taped.
Check it out! Maybe I will try it myself.
In the 1940s, Vesta Stoudt, an employee at an ammunition packing plant in Illinois and a mother with two boys in the Navy, wrote a letter to president Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that ammunition cases be sealed with a “strong cloth tape.” The U.S. military then asked Johnson & Johnson to create a waterproof, cloth-based…
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Recently, I received a copy of the book Duct Tape 911: The Many Amazing Things You Can Do to Tape Yourself Together for review. The book was written by James Hubbard, MD, MPH. Hubbard has become known as The Survival Doctor, and in 2011 he launched a website of the same name. The goal of…