# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/41 "2002-10-17T19:12:27Z")
I’m gonna buy one of those big pieces of netting with all the twigs and leaves stuck to it, and drape it over myself when I go out. Plus I’m going to cut down a small shrub and carry it in front of me. I’ll move it little darting motions, stopping between to sit behind my shrub. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/42 "2002-10-17T19:29:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*stagger… stagger… crawl… crawl… crawl… stagger left… roll… crawl… stagger… > > [sub]Name that movie![/sub] \*\* One who is most dangerous when he’s dead, _Yellowbeard!_ ---
**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 18, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/43 "2002-10-18T00:39:18Z")
Ah, **Padeye** , a gold star for you! [sub]Lambourne, stop that man pissin’ on the 'edge! It’s imported![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/44 "2002-10-18T00:47:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cybersnark \* > \*\*[http://reverendsunshine.com/decoy.htm](http://reverendsunshine.com/decoy.htm) \*\* Anybody clicked on that link today? This is what I get > [@](#): > > If you’ve came to this link in the last couple of hours you would have seen > that I had taken down the photo that was here. This was due to the fact that I received a few e-mails offering to make me a target along with more personal information than I like to see attached to a death threat. Nice, huh? Some guy makes a joke you don’t find funny and you respond by threatening to kill him. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/45 "2002-10-18T00:55:37Z")
As I said in another thread, I’m watching Remo Williams a few times. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/46 "2002-10-18T09:44:23Z")
Tucker: that is what I got a day or two ago, too. Someone wanna tell me what the joke was? ---
**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 18, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/47 "2002-10-18T12:06:39Z")
He got a few emails? I hope he reported them to someone - can’t they trace them? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/48 "2002-10-18T16:34:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*Tucker: that is what I got a day or two ago, too. Someone wanna tell me what the joke was? \*\* It’s back up now, its a lifesized cut-out of a woman holding a gas nozzle like she’s pumping gas. You’re supposed to put it beside the car when you’re filling up in the theory that the sniper’ll shoot it and not you. ---
**Author:** ![Gaijin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Gaijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaijin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/49 "2002-10-18T16:57:16Z")
I recall a reaction to a Palestinian gunman opening fire inside some girl’s batmitzva a couple months ago. Rather than run for their lives, the people inside charged, dragged him out into the street, and shot him. I’m wondering how high the body count will have to be before people start to “go Israel.” After hearing a shot fire and a white van speed away, rather than running for their lives and freaking out, I’m looking forward to seeing people chase after it, run it off the road, and restrain the guy. Somehow my GTA3 killing sprees aren’t fun anymore… ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352/50 "2002-10-18T17:14:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Padeye \* > \*\* > > One who is most dangerous when he’s dead, _Yellowbeard!_ \*\* For some reason I was thinking of the way the Fremen had to travel in _Dune_ to fool the sandworms: step…drag-step…pause…tippy-toe…step…drag No wait, that’s the Electric Slide. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniper-safety-tips/132352.md?page=2)