How To: Survive the Apocalypse (Think D.I.Y. Knives, and Solar Stills)

Best-selling author Neil Strauss helped Jenna Jameson show us How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. Then he taught us the finer points of attracting mates in The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. Now, Strauss has new knowledge to drop. In his just-published book, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, he schools us on what to do, if everything suddenly goes to hell. Strauss has spent the last several years training to become a full-fledged survivalist -- learning how to live off the land with D.I.Y. weapons, homemade solar stills, debris huts, and hot-wired cars. He talks to Danger Room about how he got his new skills. And in an exclusive video, Strauss shows what to do, if you really need a knife -- and all you have is a cigarette.

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This is bloody brilliant, I'll be getting his book shortly.

Originally posted by warrenb
what to do if you really need a knife -- and all you have is a cigarette.

Thats easy...find a smoker who had a knife...offer the cigarette as trade to use the knife, and as they light-up, you run off with the knife and hope to hell that their smoking habit has left them unable to run after you for more than 100yds without gasping and wheezing




[edit on 13-3-2009 by citizen smith]

I assume he's talking about setting fire to the the cellulose filter, then quickly forming it into a sharp edge, drop-forge styley.

From what I've been told, that was a favourite of lags looking for revenge on fellow inmates.