Would you shoot child and kill your child in this situation?

Using mainly spoons, I would send smoke signals to sumnmon the giant squid lords of the great deep, then I would threaten them with the gun until they put out the fire with their laser-guided jet propulsion machines.

Or maybe I would just use the fire extinguisher.

Your car stalls on the railroad tracks. In the car is just you and your young child strapped in the car seat in the back seat.

You try and try to start your car not noticing the train bearing down on you.

Suddenly you do see it. But it’s to late to get your child out the car seat and save both of you.

But you can get out and save yourself.

What do you do?

Depends – Is the angel female? Is she hot? If so, I might ask her out.

[Woody Allen]
I wouldn’t be able to get over the trauma brought on by the fact I was packing heat, but forgot to pack marshmallows.
[/Woody Allen]

Are there environmentalists on the train?

I shoot you first, then get the child out.

Better. At this point in the thread, Gaudere is on the train. As the engineer. And if you squint, you can see her shoveling a little more coal into the boiler. She’s gonna knock this thread to MPSIMS. The only question is whether Dr. Kimble can get out of the train first.

Considering that my sister gave away her checking account and credit card information to a complete stranger over a cell phone, and I’m now Santa Claus as far as her kids are concerned, I’m not really seeing a downside to this.

Can we stop the hijacking and get back to the OP?

Sorry, no, we’re in the middle of hijacking a derailed train, with an Moderator as hostage to boot.

For the OP. I expect I’d keep bashing at the car dashboard and frame, try to shoot out the bolts holding the seat in place and finally if that fails be forced to move away from the butn reckage my hands and body burnt almost to the bone. I would then if I survived the servere burns, live out the rest of my life in a mental assylum.

Holy cow.
My dad was faced with a dilemma nearly like this one, except that the victim wasn’t a child, but an Army military officer (don’t remember what rank) who was trapped in a burning vehicle.
What a nightmare. He still dreams about it. :frowning:

The OP was really silly.

Did you really expect a serious debate?

Hysterical strength is your friend. I would Hulk out and wrench the kid free no matter what it did to my back.

(Hey, if you can load the hypothetical I can load the solution).

Ah, but it’s not a tree you crashed into, but a glue truck! Any attempt to pull the child free will fail.

What now, hotshot?

Use the glue to put out the fire.

The glue is flammable. Yes, it’s flaming glue!

That’s even better. If it’s transporting hazardous flammable material, the truck is required by law to have a Class B fire extinguisher on board. :smiley:

The glue is a special concentrated acid glue. If you put the fire out, the kid will dissolve before your eyes? Should the kid burn or melt? :dubious:

Yes, but this particular glue company has a record of rule violations. Etiher that or the truck driver’s clothing caught on fire and he panicked, emptying the extinguisher on himself. Now he’s lying in a ditch, hypothermic and thus of no use to you in this current crisis.