NYC PSA

[W8taminute]

Can anyone who lives in the area confirm that this PSA was aired locally?
I've also seen pictures of instructions regarding surviving nuclear attacks posted in shopping malls. 

[Jarhead0331]

Yes. It was aired locally.

There is nothing to gain by posting about it here though, unless you have a serious interest in discussing preparedness for nuclear attacks. Otherwise, comments of a political nature will be removed.

Thanks.

[W8taminute]

I understand.  I don't intend this to be political. 
More of checking the validity of what I read. 


Don't worry JH, I'm trying to behave.   :)

[al_infierno]

To keep the commentary apolitical, it still is pretty surreal to see this kind of thing aired when it feels right out of the Cold War.  Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't recall publicly broadcasted nuclear attack preparedness warnings basically ever since the fall of the Soviet union?

[Jarhead0331]

To keep the commentary apolitical, it still is pretty surreal to see this kind of thing aired when it feels right out of the Cold War.  Maybe I'm ignorant, but I don't recall publicly broadcasted nuclear attack preparedness warnings basically ever since the fall of the Soviet union?

There is no doubt that this broadcast was unusual and that as a result, it created a lot of fear and concern. However, the emergency services department responsible for airing it has advised that there is no particular or specific known threat that prompted this programming and that it is just another tool for general  emergency preparedness.

I find the content of the broadcast more amusing than anything else...go inside, stay away from windows, take a shower....really?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Why mess with perfection?

[W8taminute]

I vaguely remember one of my high school teachers mentioning that when he was little they used to teach the duck and cover under a school desk. 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

That or get in a handy fridge.  They stop radiation and physics!   I remember finding a fridge with a skeleton and a fedora in it in Fallout 4 and getting a chuckle.

[Gusington]

I can't be the only one here old enough to have actually done duck and cover drills at school - the last one I remember doing was in 1986, I was 12, at my elementary school in Brooklyn.

And at this point the local NYC news has me believing that nuking NYC might be a serious improvement from the current filth, crime and general chaos.

[Jarhead0331]

I can't be the only one here old enough to have actually done duck and cover drills at school - the last one I remember doing was in 1986, I was 12, at my elementary school in Brooklyn.

And at this point the local NYC news has me believing that nuking NYC might be a serious improvement from the current filth, crime and general chaos.

I did them in grade school down in Texas.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I never had to do the duck and cover drills but they did make us watch Threads and The Day After and then have a school assembly about it.

Stupidest drills I had to do were in Japan.  They have these ridiculous "anti-stabination" polearms on a rack in the principal's office.  We were supposed to grab them and pin would-be school stabbers to the wall with them.  As the token foreigner, I always had to play the assailant while some 95 lb woman and chain-smoking 60 year old immobilized me.

[Gusington]

^That is unlike anything I have ever seen.

[JasonPratt]

^That is unlike anything I have ever seen.

I've seen those on forklifts for picking up barrels! (We have one on a forklift less than fifty feet from where I'm typing.)

More importantly: POLE ARMS!

Sure they're blunt and non-lethal but POLE ARMS!  :D

[Jarhead0331]

It is essentially a sasumata. It is one of a number of tools/implements that were used by samurai police and security forces during the Edo period to arrest criminals without causing serious injury.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Yup, but at least the old timey satsumatas were kind of badass and had pointy bits.  Ours had rubber end caps to avoid scuffing the walls.