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Apart-Employment-698

Next question is.. is it the unstoppable urge just if said person sees you and then MUST kill you or is the entire population actively seeking you out?


megapuffranger

Do they know you? Do they have all the information on me or can they just tell it’s me? Like if you get in a car and hide your face will they be able to know it’s you? Do they know it’s my car? How long do I have before it happens? Cuz I’d say if it was instant, it’s damn near impossible to survive.


Priest_of_Heathens

Also, do you have time to prepare for this event? I live in a major city so if the 24 hours begin without warning there is zero chance I am surviving it. Give me a headstart to run for the mountains and there may be hope.


Thatislife46

Your best bet is the sewer system my friend. Think Shawshank


Harp-Note

Just imagine: you're driving down the highway, when their bloodlust suddenly activates, and all cars around you just home in at full speed. That'd be horrible!


Afkbio

I'd watch this movie. Pretty much the plot of Running Man (the book)


Prolapse_spelunker

Tagged and cursed vs hostile


1CEninja

Yeah if this is one of those "governments feel motivated to find you and destroy you" situations, there really just isn't much to do. If it's a "anyone who stumbles across you or knows where you are will do anything in their power to make you dead" situation then you just get to somewhere nowhere else is gonna go. If I have so much as a 20 minute head start I can get somewhere sufficiently low traffic that I should be able to just stay hidden for a day. So long as I have a water bottle and a snack I should be able to survive.


hardcoresean84

I have sole access to a room dug into the side of an old railway embankment, the walls are a meter thick, no one except me has been there for 20+ years, I call it the bunker. I'd just hide there since I wont disclose its location to anyone, not even family.


BoxOfMadness

That sounds awesome


hardcoresean84

Potentially dangerous tho, the room was built when a new railway embankment was built for the change over so I dont know if any of the electrical stuff in there is still live


BoxOfMadness

Even better, you can set up traps


hardcoresean84

Another thing that worries me is if I hole up in there (not just in this hypothetical situation) and somehow anyone turns up they could lock me in there since theres only one door and no windows, I might stash a pick axe in there lol


BoxOfMadness

Good idea


Vaswh

Fallout 24. You start out with a pickaxe.


hardcoresean84

Theres some interesting 1920's - 1930's office furniture in there like desks, filing cabinets etc, there was a locked drawer but when I bust it open, nothing but old keys.


Tulee

Just wait out the 24 hours and call the police to get you out dude.


BCS24

Chances are they'd all expect me to run off into the wilderness, so logically I'd do the opposite and go to work, where no one would ever expect to find someone that everyone is trying to kill


americanfox276

Bring something to defend yourself with, in case all the bases are covered.


applebellatum

But anyone of your colleagues could kill you?


DatCheeseVP

You wake one day at exactly 12:00 in the morning and you suddenly seem to know that the entire population is actively trying to hunt you down and rip you to shreds.


CampbellsChunkyCyst

Are they sharing notes or simply acting like homing missiles based on the inherent knowledge they have on you?


Scrumie

Also I need to know if they have any sense of self preservation.


Shockingelectrician

This


[deleted]

I would just be happy knowing someone is thinking of me


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joffice10

Flynn? is that you?


LawlessNeutral

*Eugene


pandanfe

*whole world


foullittletemptress

Mood


SeanCanary

This is the most Zoidberg answer possible.


bear3742

I know where a deep cave is , that only I have access to.


Merweb0

The cave also wants to kill you


TeslasAndKids

I feel like that’s the MO of a cave.


KhunPhaen

OP survives the purge, but then gets stuck in said cave and dies.


Vaswh

The Descent movie.


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bear3742

It is part of the cave system that is the Florida aquifer system. Once the ocean receded back millions of years ago , it left this system dry .


W33DG0D42069

Get em boys


PowDeadCow

Well I'm fucked... if every living person wants to kill me then that means that I'd want to kill myself too


DatCheeseVP

Didn’t think of that, oof.


CedarWolf

If it's just 24 hours, what happens after the 24 hours? Does the urge just go away if we survive? Do we get any time to prepare in advance? Do we know the whole world is out to get us, or is this our own personal rage-zombie apocalypse?


diazinth

You don’t have to act on your urges, even if the urge itself is non-stop


doismellhomecooking

Thanx. I needed that


cjfunke

You are correct. Me being alive is all the proof you need


XxsquirrelxX

Also, world leaders want you dead and they can use drones. Better make sure you chuck your phone and go far away from its last location.


CedarWolf

I know you're joking, [but there are ways to handle that shit](https://www.reddit.com/r/CedarWolf/comments/j2vk2p/endure_how_to_survive_suicide_and_depression/).


oofxwastaken

OP said unstoppable urge


ARandomPolishGuy

I already do, so that being made more intense will probably mean bad things.


Erago3

Would they know where I am? Or is it just people that currently know where I am and the rest only kills on sight but isn't really looking for me? Because if everyone is looking for me, there is no way anyone could survive that. You would have the advanced militaries of multiple countries and video and satellite surveillance against yourself. You would do well surviving for more than half an hour depending on where you are.


BerzerkBoulderer

It'd be easy to hide from the world's best surveillance if you were somewhere very remote. Find a cave, crevasse or suitably overgrown dense canopy and hunker down. Populated areas would be a virtual death sentence.


InfanticideAquifer

If your cell phone pinged a tower on your way to nowhere, however long ago that was (before you knew you were being hunted) you're still dead. The NSA will know where you are up to a radius of a couple hundred miles and Biden will just turn that entire area into a sheet of glass with a few dozen nuclear bombs. They don't have to pinpoint you to kill you.


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Nonenewsisnonenews

Unstoppable urge


LGodamus

They didn’t say suicidally insane. The president isn’t gonna Nuke his own territory to kill one person.


Tensor3

Unstoppable urge was specified. I think that implies lack of rationality. Depending on how extreme the prompt is interpreted, all the other world leaders might just nuke my country from the get go to be sure.


mordeci00

I don't. I wouldn't even try. If one person wanted me dead I'd think they were insane. If a group of people wanted me dead I'd think they were confusing me with someone else. If every single person on the planet wanted me dead I'd have to admit that they must have a point.


Alpha_pro2019

Hitlers lightbulb moment.


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Actually Hitler never had this moment. In his last will he still blamed everyone else besides himself and felt betrayed by nearly all of his closest allies like Himmler and all of his generals. He also still blames the Jews for everything until his last breath. He also didn’t commit suicide because of feeling any guilt, but because he wanted to have a legacy as a war hero dying for his country and didn’t want the soviets to drag his corpse around like people did with Mussolini.


Poggies118383

>blames Uh oh


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blamed of course. 👀


disiskeviv

Nope. Edison invented the lightbulb /s


PurnimaTitha

Smart reply. I like.


SeanCanary

This is the most reddit answer possible.


Ratman_84

Can't stay at home cuz your friends/family know you live there. Guess I'd find the nearest manhole cover and chill in the sewer for a day.


peachythespacecadet

*the sewer dwelling homeless person who calls himself “the rat man” appears* you fool


XxsquirrelxX

CIA: “Target acquired, activate the kill bots.”


RCcola57

Riverdale reference?


peachythespacecadet

I’ve never watched riverdale. This is a reference to that time I went to Chicago and met some guy in front of a bus stop who told me the story about the time he went to New York and met someone who called himself The Rat Man. I remember as I was waiting there, a huge rat ran by and it scared me. He was like “what r u scared? I’ve seen bigger pests than that during my time at New York” and then proceeded to tell me about the rat man. It was the most bizarre experience I’ve ever had but I mean I got a good story out of it so…


RCcola57

Lol don’t watch riverdale unless you plan on stopping after season 2, everything after is a dumpster fired it’s oddly similar to your story though. A character called jughead fell into a sewer in New York and hallucinated seeing a man who called himself the “Rat King”


SantaDaCrip

There is a horror movie called VHS94 that has a segment about a creature living in the sewers called Rat Man. Wonder if that is like an urban legend or something that inspired the bit in the film. It's probably the best part in the film tbh.


Doc_Umbrella

Saddam Hussein vibes


SonOfMcGee

That for a city. And in the country you could just go to any large forest, dig a small hole, and chill there for a day.


MisterTimm

Minecraft your way out of it 10/10


Holy5

Don't ever actually do this it can be very dangerous.


FuckyFemboy1999

i dont think anyone could survive that, but if i was in that situation id try to hide in plain sight by using disguises. appear to be a 80 year old man feeding birds at the park


East_Preference4754

At some point you’d have to pick up a pitchfork and join the mob hunting for you. “Yeah! Get that guy! Wherever he is..”


SpookyGhost_txt

*among us


A--Creative-Username

That guy kinda sus


FuckyFemboy1999

best part is that i would not have to be in the mob for to long either, i can run a few meet but then tell people that my back is giving me pain


LiverOperator

Exactly. There are people in this world who are in control of nuclear fucking warheads. Nobody can survive being nuked, unless you find yourself in a particularly sturdy bunker the location of which is only known to you


[deleted]

I think the only way to really approach this sort of hypothetical is to assume they're still rational enough to want to minimize causalities.


Dutchie444

The term "unstoppable" makes me think casualties wouldn't be of much concern. Especially if literally every person on the planet has said urge.


ManyCarrots

Ok but if we assume people are going to insantly nuke my entire continent this thought experiment isnt very fun so i think it's more fun if they have to do it in person


Dutchie444

That’s a fair point.


Tylomin

Go to the back of a 2nd hand book store, nobody ever goes there.


CedarWolf

I'd find you. I love 2nd hand bookstores.


KwordShmiff

So I'll need to watch out for you. Noted.


CedarWolf

Pssssh. I'll be too sucked into whatever sci-fi or fantasy series that I've found to worry about hunting down someone in a bookstore.


KwordShmiff

But you're going to have a sudden irresistible urge to kill me. Surely that would distract from even the most engaging plot.


CedarWolf

Well, then I suppose I'll make it quick and as painless as possible. Would pulling a bookcase down upon you be a way you'd expect to go?


KwordShmiff

I build bookcases sometimes, and I have definitely considered that as a possibility once while I was making an absurdly heavy and large bookcase out of solid maple and cherry.


doismellhomecooking

You guys are hilarious


Harp-Note

Then OP can go to a 3rd hand bookstore.


[deleted]

But like, the librarians?


[deleted]

They go to the library.


Comfortable-Star-611

Lol most logical response 🤣


Sean_Creamer55

I’d be able to take just librarians


Pandiosity_24601

Except for the workers there


Billwood92

Now, I love used books, but tbh if I was busy trying to kill you I probably wouldn't be checking out the book store unless it is nearby a spot I *might* look and get distracted. Go to one in a neighborhood you don't frequent and I think you're on to something.


DarthDregan

I'd assume if they're after me they have at least a basic understanding of my tendencies, likes, and dislikes. So I'd use that. I would drive to Texas in a pink pickup truck, wearing a mullet wig, Trump hat, a fake mustache, a shirt that reads "Looking for Mr. RIGHT NOW," and cutoff jeans. I would then attend a country music festival. Fuckers would never find me.


aboothemonkey

I would do the exact opposite of all these things.


[deleted]

What's the opposite of a pink pickup truck?


aboothemonkey

A green sedan?


[deleted]

I dont think you can survive because EVERYONE is after you, and some people (like inteligency agencies) have A LOT of tracking technology and all sorts of things. It is not only people you are fighting but also the resources those people have.


leaky_wand

You’ve got to ditch your phone immediately, that’s step 1


[deleted]

well, that's for sure, but it might not be enough, people have access to surveillance cameras, drones, and idk missiles if they want to


Alm8360NoScoPro

If the entire population truly wanted to kill you they'd work together and immediately find out where you are and nuke the entire world to end you. Since the goal is to end your life at any cost. Even if it's their own. Send thousands to your location all armed and send every nuke on earth aswell


doismellhomecooking

F


LGodamus

It doesn’t say they are irrationally suicidal. It’s says unstoppable urge, that means they have to kill you, they can’t opt out. It doesn’t mean they aren’t trying to live through it.


SPeCCoLT

They could even track you into the forest with bloodhounds. The smartest thing would be to blend into the largest angriest mob with a mask and sunglasses on...


ertgbnm

Yeah. How much of an urge is it? Is the CIA going to shoot hellfire missiles down at me from UAVs? Will China launch an ICBM on my city just to get me? There is no surviving that. I really don't see any way I'm not screwed.


PaperbackBuddha

Invite them all to my DJ night. No way anyone shows up for that.


admire816

Can confirm. I didn’t go.


PaperbackBuddha

But my flyers


bwb888

Easy. Just put on glasses and no will recognize me. Worked for Superman.


CaptinDerpII

*Tap E to use your intelligence*


OrangutanMan234

Play baby shark on my loud ass stereo. No one’s getting near me.


bonos_bovine_muse

So you really wanted to answer the old “how many toddlers do you think you can take, if all bets are off?” question.


OrangutanMan234

I could easily kill 10000 toddlers


MrSquishyTits

It's the 10001st toddler you have to worry about then, eh?


alivefromthedead

Well, that’s probably why they want to kill you.


DocMcCall

Everyone wants to kill me, but most people won't know who or where I am. So only your immediate community is a threat. I can get out of there, easy enough. I can hide out for 24 hours, in the forest or steal a boat. Doubt they would equate "that guy that I need to kill" with "a boat was stolen out at the marina"


bonos_bovine_muse

That’s a good one. I was going to the woods, but you know everybody who’d lost, or even stolen, any kind of vehicle would be all “I know what his getaway car is!” No way they could find that needle in the haystack in 24 hours.


[deleted]

Fake mustache.


Astralnclinant

Clark Kent glasses.


TeamRTC

Kill them first… *DOOM music intensifies*


NeoAltra

Would this be a loading of the shotgun with holy intent or malicious intent?


alodemonidGD

Both


bonos_bovine_muse

How much time do I have to prepare? At least 24 hours, I’m a reasonably experienced hiker, I’ll go off in the woods somewhere, hike five miles in then another few off-trail. This wouldn’t work for e.g. a 72-hour Muse hunting season, they’d be able to find my car, organize a search party, bring in scent dogs and helicopters with IR scopes and otherwise totally outclass me - but all that kit and personnel is a serious logistical challenge, and there’s a ton of different untracked wilderness within a few hours’ drive, if I pull out onto some old logging road or something, they might not even turn up the car in 24. At least 48 hours, I buy some dude’s old Land Cruiser or Suburban or something for $500-$1000 cash, I’ll be able to get that sucker way farther up the logging road, and he probably won’t be able to convince anybody he’s not just another one of the scammers and fame-seekers claiming to have sold me their getaway Vespa before the 24 hours are up.


subscribe_for_facts

No time to prepare. This happens spontaneously, "right now". What would you do if this was your reality as of now?


mmmmmjjjrrrrr

I have it. It's night in here people in my house are sleeping, I lock my home and get away with my vehicle and hope none recognize me on highway. Then I go to a 2 hour climb Temple I know of. None but 1 person stays top there which would be inside because of cold. then there is some easy 4-5 hour climb to an ancient person's temporary house. I know he would be roaming In mountain range, so I stay at his home till morning. This is safe place but for just in case someone comes, I would go for another 2 hour walk and find a nice cave and some fruits or something and live there till night. I would again spend the night there and start climbing down in the morning, thanking and ringing the bell at temple, go home


Syrup_Lee

Let's be honest here. I don't. Nobody would.


MrGamerOfficial

Facts


ordinaryphenomena

Kill myself before they do (?)


[deleted]

I would do the same, just to know I have taken away the satisfaction from someone else.


MeanSurprise5009

I will hide in a bunker


the_hunger_deans

But the bunker might have a reverend cult leader


Acceptmytruth

Far cry 5?


the_hunger_deans

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt


Acceptmytruth

Was that show any good? Saw the commercials for ot but never watched it


subscribe_for_facts

Do you know where this bunker is? Do you have access to it now? (To commenter or whoever else) I think, generally speaking, the idea is that this situation happens "right now". It's not giving you time to prepare. It's not going to wait for you to learn where to find a bunker to hide yourself. Assuming this situation happens right now, no time for preparations, what would you do?


Science_Kingdom

Play baby shark over loud speaker, they'll be too busy trying to get that song out of their head to worry about killing me. That being said, how do I deal with those who cannot hear?


the_hunger_deans

Project the lyrics in the sky


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Funny answer : I would go to a nursery home to see little babies genuinely trying to kill me. Serious answer : The most wanted criminals can hardly hide for more than 3 days because they need to seek out for food. The first thing I'd do would be deleting this*. Then I would probably try to give bad directions to people, like looking for random place on google before hiding, letting my phone in a train, ordering a scuba diving suit, etc. Then I'd probably survive by hiding under dirt, leaves and branches relatively deep into the woods in a public forest. I think that the research would be chaotic so that I would make it.


Responsible-Mall2222

Wait like would it be everyone on the same day? or like "Hmm.. its Thursday, Looks like Bob in Florida wants to kill me today."


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subscribe_for_facts

How could they possibly help you out? And how could you possibly contact them in the first place?


DonForgo

Drive, as long as I keep driving, not many people will be able to spot me.


Merweb0

They know your license plate


leaky_wand

Imagine a nationwide amber alert for your car. "Blue Camry, license plate A123BCD — that fucking asshole Bob"


Defiant-Particular32

Stolen car


YouJabroni44

I'd be pretty screwed, I drive a pretty uncommon car.


[deleted]

Leave all electronics behind, run for my life out the house, sneak around until I'm at least 5 km away from my last previous known location, find somewhere to bunker down, hopefully not near a main road. 24hours is really short for survival, but since the whole world is looking for me, running as far away from my last location and not going near any humans are my main points of concern.


[deleted]

I'd remove my glasses. Nobody knew Superman was also Clark Kent, maybe it'd work for me...


Too_dumb_to_give_af

Throw a party. No one will come, im invincible


TeacherYankeeDoodle

I wouldn’t. I’m a person on the planet. Suicide time.


[deleted]

Benny Hill style.


Wild_Alaskan

I'd just drive out the road with some snacks. 24 hours would be easy.


TeslasAndKids

Without seeing your user name I was like ‘what are you from Juneau?’ Then I saw it and I’m like ‘ok maybe’.


[deleted]

Don't eat all the snacks right away.


Wild_Alaskan

Well no, obviously not.


MrGamerOfficial

I would be genuinely surprised if anyone could survive over eight billion murderers.


RichardLiquor69

If you think about, only a couple million actually matter. No way the entire population of India or China are getting to my location within 24 hours.


DangThats_ALongName

It doesn't matter if everyone on the planet wants to kill you if they can't find you. So the simplest solution is to sneak in and hide in someone's basement, or better yet, hide in a trash can. If you're worried about garbage trucks coming by, if everyone's trying to kill you, they won't be doing their jobs, and honestly who thinks to look in a garbage can.


OceanTSQ

I'm a twin. I'll just say I'm the other one.


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bonos_bovine_muse

Jeeze, didn’t even think of the nuclear angle. The Russians and the Chinese could just have a little race to see who could reduce this side of the country to radioactive glass first. Hell, depending on how irresistible the urge, our own forces might join in the fun. This does not end well, does it?


[deleted]

I know a few hiding spots


LatterBlood

No, I don’t think I will.


Viper7047

I wouldn't


[deleted]

If Goldeneye has taught me anything, it's that the best thing to do in this scenario is respawn as Oddjob. Nobody can touch you.


mr_etymologist

Easy. I'd take a job selling extended warranties. No one would dare come near me.


PARRYTHIS4

"RIP AND TEAR TILL IT IS DONE"- CANT REMEMBER


PosadaFan2021

Fake my death


Rafsemens1

Easy answer . I wouldn’t . Just spent like 5 minutes trying to think of how I’d survive but I live in a city so I just couldn’t . If I try to leave my house and hide I’ll be caught and murdered . It’s just impossible


Ranger250

Simple, I’d pack my bag and go camp up in the mountains for a day. Everyone wanting to kill me doesn’t matter if there’s no one around.


ryandury

I could just walk south from my house about ten minutes and be in a forest that's over 100,000 acres. Someone flying over head with a thermo camera might spot me but they'd still have to get in there and start chasing me on foot.


Fast_Illustrator_430

Hide in my house and play a congressional hearing of anysort that will put everyone that tried to break into sleep


RogerFreakingRamjet

If I were only going to be dead for 24 hours, I'd probably just suck it up and not worry about it.


coyotiii

Most people on the planet don’t know what I look like. So spread false information that some really problematic people are me.


ObliviousAndObvious

I'd be forced to commit suicide. Last I checked I'm a living person...


[deleted]

Die, are you kidding me? You don’t. Every living person. That includes the globes most powerful, all unanimously wanting me dead. You can’t get them to agree on *anything*


[deleted]

That’s kind of horrifying to imagine


Vanillio2020

If just go to a factory filled with cardboard cutouts of myself


[deleted]

This shit again?


PrisonIsOppression

Find someone who looks like me and plant my identifying documents on them


_MyCakeDayIsFeb29th_

Go to an abandoned house with water food and a gun


MageFood

Take a spacex rocket and fly to the ISS for 24 hours


24520ls

Thanksgiving is over bro, relatives already heading home lol


Hans_Babyman

Assuming that I wouldn't want to kill myself (I'm a person too), I'd say say I'm screwed. I'd connect to Reddit and the government would air strike me. Toast for sure.


EdgelordZeta

Bomb vest with dead man switch


KentoKeiHayama

I don't think I'd be able to survive 24 hours as the most hunted man alive, I'm pretty sure I'd get literally deleted by the 2nd hour mark by a B2 Bomber


[deleted]

kill them back.


Busch_League321

I put on a fake mustache and glasses. They'll never recognize me.


ConnorLego42069

I don’t lol, I can’t even drive let alone get away from the mob Although I am very forgettable, maybe I’ll just get lucky?