Sep 12 2007Hanging Balls Of Outdoor Survival

"Dangling from a tree in a giant blue testicle is practically the definition of outdoor survival..."

hahahhahahahahh

i actually think its kinda cool...
dont think id ever use one :S looks like it cud fall down or be quite uncomfy if it was to rock!
still cool though

I would think trees wouldn't grow in the places you would need one. This would more practically be used on the side of a cliff on mountaineering expeditions. Oh wait, they already have these for that. Silly designer. You thought you would make this a new idea by adding a tree to the picture. Screw you, I'm not buying one of these.

I would assume the loops on the front are for pegging it to the ground so it doesn't sway too much, though it doesn't clearly show this.

Personally I would hate to have to use this thing, given the choice between trying to sleep all hunched up like that then waking up half melted and unable to walk properly for a week.... I'd take a sleeping bag any day.

It kind just looks like he got the idea when watching a war film, when you see paratroopers strung up in trees they've hit on the way down...

It looks pretty comfortable, not great but not bad either, well right up to the point when your friends start using it as a punching bag.

^^ I'd take a sleeping bag any day

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^^I would think trees wouldn't grow in the places you would need one.

Im assuming this would be used in situations where you are in bear country. Similar to when you go camping you string your camping food to a tree in a similar fashion. It is so that when you are sleeping you are not in immediate danger from a bear / coyote / wolf can not easily get to you. The areas you find these animals also are very heavily treed so you would not have any problems finding a place to hang.

As a bear, I can say that it looks like a pinata to me. I think it should be called a death sack, because you couldn't hang it high enough for me to not just reach inside and eat you like a dreadlock-wearing tv dinner. When you sling food up in a tree, you sling it like 13 feet up, on a flimsy limb. So, either you hang it low enough that I can walk right up and rip you screaming from your nylon womb, or I wait for you to plummet to your death when your flimsy limb breaks, and eat the hippie-flavored jelly inside the "death sack." Thanks! Whoever designed this must have been a nature lover. At least a bear lover...

According to the source link it's an emergency shelter. Not something you put up in lieu of a tent/sleeping bag. Something you put up with there is a powerful storm a brewin' and yer lost.

Lol, what if it gets struck by lightning?

The colors are...Interesting.
Why make it something that won't stick out, and cause curiousity among predators? Death traps are fun!

wow look at how much that guy's neck is angled! neck cramps anyone?

Wow... can you imagine being stuck in this "emergency shelter" when I roll by? Or a storm? Lol. Douchey designer.

why would a person need this? arent there tents and campers for that?

sum of u people r half retarded- no ones asking u to vacation in this thing 4 a month or sleep in every nite, its not supposd to b anything but an emergency survival deal-

sum of u people r half retarded- no ones asking u to vacation in this thing 4 a month or sleep in it every nite, given u kould even afford 1, its not supposd to b anything but an emergency survival deal- and also highly expensive