Whistles

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I haven't seen this as a prep item, but I may have four children all working in different places doing different tasks like "goat", "garden", "chickens", "water", "fire wood", "wild greens", "fishing", etc. and it occured to me that everyone should have a whistle in case problems or wierdos showed up.

-- Sand Mueller (smueller@azalea.net), July 10, 1999

Answers

Sand,

This is a great idea! My family use whistles when we go backpacking/ camping, with coded blasts for different situations. For example: three quick toots mean "emergency, come help!" A single toot @ 1/ minute means "I'm ok, but in this direction." You and yours can make up your own code to suit.

-- Spindoc' (spindoc_99_2000@yahoo.com), July 11, 1999.


I'm considering purchasing several hundred whistles for sharing with my neighborhood of 150 homes. I'm thinking that besides helping to protect us better as a group, it might generate some goodwill. What I haven't figured out how to do, yet, is to share these without giving folks the idea that I also probably have enough food to feed them all for one day, instead of feeding my family for a year.

-- Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California (minddancr@aol.com), July 11, 1999.

Dancr,

Don't issue those whistles to children, unless they are VERY well trained. Otherwise, you'll just get a lot of noise and false alarms.

-- Spindoc' (spindoc_99_2000@yahoo.com), July 13, 1999.


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