# Sniper Safety Tips **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2002, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352 "2002-10-15T16:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/21 "2002-10-16T02:44:44Z")
Great! I knew my wacky Charley Chaplain walk would come in handy for more than just avoiding sandworms! ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/22 "2002-10-16T02:53:35Z")
Go to [www.snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com) and check the new additions for a whole e-mail message full of this stuff. Among the highlights: > [@](#): > > 1. Avoid unnecessary errands. > 2. Bring someone along. > 3. Do not stand outside your vehicle grabbing things out the car. > 4. If you go to the store, put items in back seat of car (nothing in trunk) so that you can grab items and exit quickly. > 5. When slowing down or at a stop, keep windows closed (glass deflects bullets, he knows this and he is not shooting through glass anymore). > 6. Never walk straight to a door more than 20 feet away. Zig zag and walk at angles. The shooter is setting up on doorways/entrances and waiting for victims to line up on entrance. The hardest shot for a sniper is a target traversing laterally to his/her position. This whole thing is starting to turn into a bad Monty Python skit. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/23 "2002-10-16T03:26:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Be a Difficult Target Does that mean I should be cranky and surly or that I should weave around a lot? > [@](#): > > Walk Quickly, Irregularly Right. Drink lots of coffee and eat a low-fiber diet so I’m constipated. Makes sense. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![alex\_arg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@alex\_arg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alex_arg)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/24 "2002-10-16T04:12:56Z")
I’m surpised no one has said this. Smoke a joint or two before going outside. That’ll cover the difficult target thing. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/25 "2002-10-16T04:42:08Z")
Duck and cover! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/26 "2002-10-16T04:46:05Z")
stock up here! [http://www.bulletproofme.com/Body\_Armor\_Accessories\_RIFLE\_Protection.shtml](http://www.bulletproofme.com/Body_Armor_Accessories_RIFLE_Protection.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/27 "2002-10-16T05:12:19Z")
People, people, people: BP vests work on small-caliber pistol rounds. You’re going to need a lot more than Kevlar to stop a .223 rifle round. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/28 "2002-10-16T11:52:26Z")
Could you wear more than one jacket? :\> ---
**Author:** ![cybersnark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@cybersnark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cybersnark)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/29 "2002-10-16T13:57:42Z")
[http://reverendsunshine.com/decoy.htm](http://reverendsunshine.com/decoy.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/30 "2002-10-16T14:03:54Z")
That’s sick… but funny… ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/31 "2002-10-16T14:05:19Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Bring someone along. This would only be useful if you could shove that someone in front of you in time… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/32 "2002-10-16T14:09:57Z")
Well, it’s like crossing the street at a busy intersection. What you do is cross with a pack of people so they act as a buffer in case a car does come. Of course, with a sniper bullet, you’d need a whole mess o’ people. And you might get one, unfortunately. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misery_Loves_Co)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/33 "2002-10-16T14:18:11Z")
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ---
**Author:** ![Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Misery\_Loves\_Co](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misery_Loves_Co)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/34 "2002-10-16T14:18:33Z")
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/35 "2002-10-16T14:32:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course, with a sniper bullet, you’d need a whole mess o’ people. And you might get one, unfortunately. **dan** , you’re perverted, twisted, and sick. Which puts you in excellent company here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/36 "2002-10-16T14:33:54Z")
Thanks, RT. I think there’s something in the coffee here. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/37 "2002-10-16T14:49:03Z")
The chance of one sniper targetting you is pretty small so the chance of two snipers targeting you must be so small as to be near enough zero. So, get a friend to sit on a tall building with a high powered rifle to target you whenever you fill up with gas and you should be in the clear. Can I claim my prize now? Of course, you have to make sure it is a real friend, and not someone with a good reason to pull the trigger… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/38 "2002-10-16T18:25:54Z")
The news is also talking about how much bulletproof vests cost, and showing different types :rolleyes: Something that the “walk irregularly” made me think of… You know that MST3k movie with Rowsdower? Well when the stupid guys in black are surrounding and approaching that house, one of them does this drop-and-roll thing TOTALLY out of the blue and totally unneccessarily… so I’m picturing people waking down the street, dodging about, doing those soldier rolls, ducking behind things… a whole street full of people doing that would be quite a sight to see. (As opposed to a sight to hear.) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/39 "2002-10-16T18:39:52Z")
stagger… stagger… crawl… crawl… crawl… stagger left… roll… crawl… stagger… [sub]Name that movie![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/40 "2002-10-16T20:46:08Z")
In Trained Killer School at Quantico, we were always taught to say to ourselves while attacking a defensive position across open ground, “You’re Up, You’re Seen, You’re Down!” to avoid getting whacked by an alert defender. Our morbid 2ndLt humor quickly modified it to “You’re Up, You’re Seen, You’re Dead!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352.md?page=3)