how would you escape?

[robdraggoo]

If you were Jesse in this situation, handcuffed to 2 bedposts, how would you try to free yourself. Anything not already tried and discussed in the book. I was thinking while reading that I would have tried to things.

1) I would have grabbed the head of the bedposts, trued to move my hips to one side and try and get my feet on the floor. Then try to lift one side of the bed up. If I was successful I would be able to put the bed on my back and be able to walk of to the dresser where the keys were.

2) same Idea has before but this time I would try and arch my back so I could get my feet to one side of the bed and try to slide the matress off with me feet. Then I could put my feet under under the bottom and walk the bed that way.

I have no idea if these would actually work as I have yet to test these thoeries but they seem plausible. The bed wasnt very big, probably the size of a full. So I dont think it would be to difficult to navigate these. How would you try to escape?

[robdraggoo]

Ok, I should have read the book all the way before posting this. My bad. Anyway, question still stands. sorry about that guys. I jumped the gun

[THISisWHEREiMAKEmySTAND]

I don't know what I could have tried...hmm maybe rotating the cuffs on the bedpost to see if you could chip away at the wood, although I wouldn't have had the strength left, prob. I don't think I would have gotten away at all :eek2:

[Jack Roman]

If you were Jesse in this situation, handcuffed to 2 bedposts, how would you try to free yourself. Anything not already tried and discussed in the book. I was thinking while reading that I would have tried to things.

1) I would have grabbed the head of the bedposts, trued to move my hips to one side and try and get my feet on the floor. Then try to lift one side of the bed up. If I was successful I would be able to put the bed on my back and be able to walk of to the dresser where the keys were.

2) same Idea has before but this time I would try and arch my back so I could get my feet to one side of the bed and try to slide the matress off with me feet. Then I could put my feet under under the bottom and walk the bed that way.

I have no idea if these would actually work as I have yet to test these thoeries but they seem plausible. The bed wasnt very big, probably the size of a full. So I dont think it would be to difficult to navigate these. How would you try to escape?

Keep in mind that all those methods would have took strength to do. I don't think Jessie was that strong.

[plgordon]

It's very difficult to pontificate what method you would try to escape. One thing is true; the more desperate you became, the more diverse the options on the table would become. Each person, and bed, pose a different challenge to this querry!
Hand cuffs have never really been my thing, (although I had never tried it) After reading this book, (wich I truly truly enjoyed) I doubt I ever will.

[michal]

I thought the book offered an excellent solution. Have no idea what I would do. There is a well-known story about a trekker that got trapped between two rocks while all alone and had to amputee his own limb in order to escape. I want to believe that if I would be faced with death I'd do anything ANYTHING instead of just lying there waiting for the end.

[The Outsider]

I would have done the backflip thing. I actually thought of that before I read Jessie thinking of that in the novel. Even though it said that would wouldn't work, I would've done it, and it would've worked.

Or I would have done what she did in the end, I guess. My bed has two rod-shaped bed posts, so it would have been no problem sliding them up the sides, but had I been in a bed like hers I would have done what she did. But Jesus, degloving!

[Sugar Marie]

I would have done the backflip thing. I actually thought of that before I read Jessie thinking of that in the novel. Even though it said that would wouldn't work, I would've done it, and it would've worked.

Or I would have done what she did in the end, I guess. My bed has two rod-shaped bed posts, so it would have been no problem sliding them up the sides, but had I been in a bed like hers I would have done what she did. But Jesus, degloving!

I'ts been a while since I've read the book, so I don't quite remember all of the challenges Jesse faced, but I do remember thinking that flipping backwards, positioning her feet againt the wall, and pistoning her legs might get her behind the bed, thereby giving her more leverage to free herself. I don't recall if this strtegy was later proven unfeasable or what.

What I do remember very clearly, was that ol Gerald was a self absorbed &*#!, who needed a good a**-kicking way more than a lay.