I’ve been on quicksand and mud. The trick on both is to lay out as flat as you can.
I got stuck in it once. It was messy and annoying as all fuck. I sank to my thighs. Hard to get out. I was in no danger of being pulled under of course.
Yep. Not that dangerous but nasty and filthy.
And at no point in real life does a person ever make this choice for comedic effect.
Did police keep heavy anti-riot ordnance back in the day? When labor strikes were treated as incipient Communist uprisings, machine-gunning rioters was a thing. ETA: although brief research shows this was more likely to be Army/ National Guard than civil police.
In the original Half-Life game you get hand grenades long before you can get an ordinary shotgun. I’ve wondered: seriously, a security post where they keep hand grenades?
in between the throw the “empty” revolver at the monster
There’s a product like VapoRub that’s marketed to morgue/police personnel called Carry On. My DIL told me about it, after trying it. She didn’t think it improved things, just added to the smell.
She didn’t notice that the product name was a pun.
You mean, like, Carry On, Coroner!?
That sounds like a TV show.
I don’t know if the product was ever sold, or only market tested.
I’m guessing carrion.
Movie, actually.
Neighbors being hyper-competitive over Christmas decorations. Or is that a thing that really happens?
The movie Eraser also has corporate security guards with hand grenades, which seems like overkill for office building security guards.
Looking at the ever increasing Xmas decoration orgies around here, I would say yes. But maybe that’s a consequence of the media and the people got their clues from the Griswolds or the Simpsons.
plus that seems a deeply american more/louder/faster/one-upper thing …
I’ve never seen much of that outside the states, …
Well, I’m posting from Germany, where it has taken over…
well, everything that is BUSINESS eventually does that …
don’t get me started on Halloween 
I think 99% of the Xmas kitsch is produced in China, so Americans don’t profit from their cultural influence.
Who’s selling the stuff?
yep - aliexpress is ripe with those 1 dollar products …
I’m gonna guess that having ledges wide enough to walk on and conveniently located right under the window is something mostly common in TV or movies. Architecturally speaking, what (besides maybe being decorative) would be the reason for wide ledges anyway?