When All Hell Breaks Loose (106 page)

Long live the wheel! Don't let an addiction to petroleum dumb you down when needing to transport the goods, human or otherwise.

Help with "getting out of dodge" while keeping your hands free: conventional backpacks, day packs, fanny packs, and portable shelter options (tents and tarps).

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"Taking out" the pantry rodent raider. Urban deadfall trap made from a book, two pencils, dental floss, a match, and a shish-ka-bob skewer.

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Two raisins skewered on bait stick serve as an incentive.

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Commercial traps set in a rodent run. The mousetrap in the middle, baited with peanut butter, can be modified like the rattrap at right using a piece of whatever to improvise a "death paddle," allowing the animal to trip the trap by scurrying across its surface; no bait needed.

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Five-star survival cuisine: mouth-watering rat on a platter with colorful garnish.

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Welcome home, honey!

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You'll dazzle after-disaster dinner guests with your succulent mouse on a stick. Watch 'em beg for the recipe!

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Eating what bugs you. A hopper-ka-bob, fresh off the grill.

Got rats? Watch the wee ones squeal with delight when playing fashion with their dolls using the pelts from your kills. Surviving in style for the "nuclear family"!

Light my fire! A few of the more common ways to achieve ignition. Unfortunately, the white-tipped strike-anywhere matches in the Prince-approved purple match safe are slowly but surely disappearing from the market due to federal regulations. Thanks for keeping us safe, guys!

A bevy of commercial technical tinders and other things that burn. Tinders are typically used to help ignite fuel, wet or otherwise, when using meager ignition sources. Other than my homemade tinder described in 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive!, my favorite is the Fire-Up brand in the middle.

Extreme close-up of using 0000 steel wool and batteries to create heat.