rather than hijack a post about whistles, let's start afresh.

where do you carry your whistle?

i carry a whistle on my car keyring. recent stories about cars over the edge or people trapped under buildings post earthquakes spurred me to this.

i day hike. i carry a 'storm' whistle in a pouch on the waistband of my backpack. it may be hard to reach and dig out in a hurry if i walk off a trail down a slope.

i also carry an 'acr' whistle around my neck on my dog tag chain. which, as a recent poster noted - thank you very much - stands a 50-50 chance of ending up between my shoulder blades if i crash off a trail.

perhaps a mountain out of a molehill, but...curious minds want to know...

where and why?

i carry it in my pocket with a bit of dummy cord to a beltloop along with my flint and steel...it lays flat and is not a problem...vince g. 11b inf...

I carry a bunch of whistles.

I have 3 large key rings (work, home and play) and each have a whistle of a different colour so I can quickly tell one from another. I am now switching brands of whistles on the key rings (they were all Fox 40's) so I can tell by feel which ring of keys I have. I carry another whistle on my work belt, actually 2 if you count the 1 in my mini-PSK. When off playing in the bush I have one clipped to my Nite-ize pockets pouch and another buried in the mini-kit in my EDC cell phone pouch. More whistles can also be found in every vehicle, boat, ATV, snowmobile, PSK and FAK plus in my shaving kit attached to a small flashlight. Whistles are a cheap but very effective signaling device.

I even have a whistle collection that I use when teaching signaling to children, the kids blow the whistles and we rank them by loudness.

Mike

In one of my EDC's (I have several I can choose from, because it's fun in life to mix things up a little, lol) I've got a pealess metal whistle clipped on to my black SAK Compact model, and with that a black Photon.

And in a hand-made pouch I threw together, I've got another pealess whistle I have from some type of a convention, along with a locking-blade SAK, a flint/steel, compass, and some petroleum jelly/cotton balls in a baggie.

I've never had the need to blow on them in an emergency but they're there for that purpose should the need arise. And for me that's all that matters.

One on my compass lanyard.
One dummy corded into my jacket pocket, when out and about.
One on my car keys.
One on my flotation suit.

I have a cut down Fox 40 on my EDC PSK Keyring and several different kinds of whistles in various other PSKs.

I keep a Fox 40 on EDC keyring (i.e. house and car keys), a Storm
in the glove box of my main vehicle and a Fox 40 in the second car.

In my emergency kits BOBs, I usually have a whistle and some spares for the rest of the family.

Everywhere. I mean literally everywhere, even on the plane.

While I've not used it in an actual life or death situation, I have used it for a number of interesting things like stopping a moonbounce full of kids to retrieve my three-year old who had been bopped in the nose and I needed to get the other kids to stop jumping so I could get in and grab my kid.

We've also used it at impromptu games of soccer to referee, and we were at a festival and there were various races (sack race, 3-legged race) and it was fun to become the race-starter.

But I carry it mostly for the NYC factor. Three things I think I need in NYC if I survive the initial blast - a way to signal rescuers, a bandanna to cover my face to lower the risk of long-term illness from the dust, a light to see my way, and some water to drink and keep my bandanna wet. All of this is on my person all the time, everywhere except in the shower and in the swimming pool.

That's actually four things.

I've heard it said that there are three types of actuarys; those that can count and those that can't.

Jim

I carry a DR PSK so I have it with me pretty much all day
(except when sleeping then it's about 12" away from my head)
Like Martin said you never know when it will be needed.

Mike