It occurs to me more clearly why this thread sooo pisses me off.

This is not a website about survival of the fittest or survival of the cruelest or survival of the best-armed.

It is a website about personal responsibility and preparing in advance for unfortunate but foreseeable situations. Many people here volunteer their time and risk their lives helping others in various disasters. If safety were my only goal, I'd go hole up in a cave somewhere.

For someone to post a question essentially asking, "how do I screw everyone else to save myself?" runs counter to every decent impulse and what many of us believe in. Sorry if I sound like a preacher, but this post reminds me of that clown who wanted to run around in the woods and didn't care that SAR personnel might risk their lives to save him. Why was his soul-quest more important than their lives? I don't see the difference here.