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#52232 - 10/20/05 05:58 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
JOEGREEN Offline
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Registered: 12/09/02
Posts: 204
Loc: Long Island, New York
I'm with Vince - have a couple of options. I have a PSK in my center console (in an old AOL CD tin), a Cody Lundin-style kit in a backpack in the back of my Jeep, and yet another PSK in the pouch of my Becker Bowie under the back seat.
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#52233 - 10/20/05 08:43 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Stu Offline
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Registered: 05/16/05
Posts: 1058
Loc: Finger Lakes of NY State
Personal Support kit in my lingo.......others may call it what they want. Who cares what the user calls it, as long as they are happy with it.
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#52234 - 10/20/05 09:11 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Stu Offline
I am not a P.P.o.W.
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Registered: 05/16/05
Posts: 1058
Loc: Finger Lakes of NY State
Velcroed to the Hump in the rear seat. Reachable by both the driver and the passenger, and rear seat passengers.
I have a LED mini mag, AMK PSP, AMK Pocket Medic, gerber multi-tool and a window punch in a small bag in each door pocket. Under each side of the back seat in my Yukon, there is a mesh blaze orange biker vest and a 5 pound ABC fire ext.
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#52235 - 10/20/05 10:32 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
duckear Offline
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Registered: 03/01/04
Posts: 478
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Bee I beg to differ you call it a PSK for the car. The P in PSK stands for pocket. Meaning the gear fits in your pocket. I doubt your gear will fit.

Sorry to be such a grouch but I hate mis-labeling. I see it all the time someone says a pocket kit then starts out with a backpack.


Lighten up, Francis. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I too have always understood the "P" to stand for personal, not pocket.

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#52236 - 10/21/05 12:45 AM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Anonymous
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Given the choice, the Life hammer is my first grab, but the ResQMe is graet because its in my pocket all the time.
I was going to say that I got mine from eBay, but gp_frk has bet me to it.
Another use for the Life Hammer over here is the companies that supply cargo barriers for wagons. They supply a Life Hammer attached to the barrier in the cargo area. That way if the back door is closed and if there is no inside handle, there is still a way out.
There was a child killed some years ago because his brother slammed the back shut and ran off leaving him trapped in the summer heat with no escape, and this was one of the responses to the prob.

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#52237 - 10/21/05 01:45 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Anonymous
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Having been involved as a passenger in a rollover with the vehicle doing over 60mph, I hesitate to carry very much in the front of the vehicle. Almost everything that was in the front of the vehicle was scattered for a long ways along the road. Some of the things were never found. The things in the trunk was still there. The objects in the front become possible missles. Just something to consider.

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#52238 - 10/21/05 04:28 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Anonymous
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The objects in the front become possible missles
About 10 years ago, there was an accident 60km from here and a girl sitting in the back seat of a car got hit through the back seat from something in the trunk and ended up in a wheel chair.
Its not just things in the front that become missiles.

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#52239 - 10/21/05 05:11 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Eugene Offline
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Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 2997
I've noticed that if you pull back the lining of the trunk of most cars you see the back seat, there usually isn't anything solid between.
Even thous of us with trucks should still be careful as whatever is in the bed could still come over the top of the bed and through the rear window of the truck.
I'm going to make a junk yard trip one of these days and pick up some seat belts to make some cargo straps for under the seats. to help hold some of my gear in better. Figure if I find seat belts material in a matching color as my interior it will blend in nicely.

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#52240 - 10/21/05 08:08 PM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Craig_phx Offline
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Registered: 04/05/05
Posts: 715
Loc: Phoenix, AZ
Biggzie,

I found the yellow ResQME at Brookstone for $12.50. I bought one for my wife and me. What a great tool! It is exactly what you need if you are trapped in a car. Cut the seatbelt, smash the side window, and you are out of there.

Wham! Bam! Thank you ma'am! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Thank you for the suggestion. Everyone should have one on their key chain or in their car. It is like a fire extinguisher; you may never need it, but if you do: it is the best tool for the job.

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#52241 - 10/24/05 05:56 AM Re: Car PSK : trunk or under passenger seat?
Raspy Offline
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Registered: 01/08/04
Posts: 351
Loc: Centre Hall Pa
Well personal survival kit could be anything from a pocket knife to a fully loaded RV. A very, very broad catagory. That is why most think and refer to the P as pocket as a size designator. Most kits so refered to as PSKs are generally built around the ubiquitous Altoids tin or similarly sized container.
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