Wearing headphones and situational awareness

[Culvercreek hunt club]

I wonder what her thoughts were she first played the video?

 

 

[The_Field_Ager]

this is a cgi creation. i saw an interview with creators couple of years back. very well done tho.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Sure looked real enough. lol My bad. 

[moog5050]

That Grizzly seemed to quit a bit early.  lol  Good to know it was made up otherwise that could be bad news!

[Nomad]

8 minutes ago, Culvercreek hunt club said:

Sure looked real enough. lol My bad. 

But your point is spot on , situational awareness is already low on most people , headphones and constant staring at smart phones takes it down even lower .

[ny hunter]

Looked real to me...Thats pretty cool...

[philoshop]

I don't even play the radio in my truck while I'm driving. It probably comes from years of racing different stuff, but paying attention to what's going on around you is how you stay alive.

[Steuben Jerry]

Agree with the situational awareness. I’ve never had an incident of violence of any kind but in a restaurant I’ll sit facing the door, end of the row in a movie theater or sports arena, edge of a crowd instead of in a crowd, always scope out where the exits are, that kind of thing. I used to think i might be a bit paranoid but it seems prudent these days. 

I never wear headphones. Although I admit to maybe one earbud on very low volume in the tree stand to check in the Bills games on autumn afternoons!

[crappyice]

One of my father in laws(Off the boat Irish now I’m the Boston area) favorite N.Y. experience was in between my grandmothers 2 wakes sessions. We were grabbing a bite to eat at my uncles place (very ItalianBrooklyn born and survived) and there was a long table set for our family. We came in late and the only seat available was the head of the table, back to the window. He didn’t want to sit at the head of the table but I assured him none of my uncles would sit there for fear of getting whacked! He was honored and a touch nervous!


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[Moho81]

I’ve tried to wear headphones several times out in public and hated it. I just could never get use to not hearing what was going around me. It wasn’t even a fear of something bad happening it was more I didn’t want to be that rude guy that didn’t hear someone say excuse me or have someone ask me something just for me to walk away.


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[ny hunter]

11 hours ago, crappyice said:

One of my father in laws(Off the boat Irish now I’m the Boston area) favorite N.Y. experience was in between my grandmothers 2 wakes sessions. We were grabbing a bite to eat at my uncles place (very ItalianBrooklyn born and survived) and there was a long table set for our family. We came in late and the only seat available was the head of the table, back to the window. He didn’t want to sit at the head of the table but I assured him none of my uncles would sit there for fear of getting whacked! He was honored and a touch nervous!


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I never sit with my back to the door or window in a restaurant..... Just in case someone else gets whacked in the restaurant.. I want to see the door....

[Rattler]

Many people today are inconsiderate, oblivious or both.  You can identify them by the headphones or their face in the phone.  That being said, it does seem to be an improvement over carrying a huge boom box on their shoulder.

[ny hunter]

Rattler ... Very well said buddy... 

[Nomad]

Weeks ago I thought of starting a thread on situational awareness, so,let’s go .

I like to think I’m very aware and respond according , Ive wondered if it was a male/female thing or Hunter / non Hunter or each  . As hunters we stare looking for the slightest  movement or something out of place , our ears listening for the slightest sound does this carry over in other parts of our lives ?

One of the parts of the written exam for the FD, was you studied two, photos for one minute , turned them over placed onthe floor ,then you could open the packet and answer questions about said photos. Many made the mistake of thinking they’d ask “ fire “ questions , where are exits, the hydrant, fire escape and so on . What you got was ,which store was closed on Sat .? Which shop had an air conditioner over the door , how many people were on the sidewalk ?

They wanted to know , if you pull up had a brief time to do a size up how well you could recall what you saw . It was a very telling part of the test , and still used 30 plus years after I took it .

Two things I always drilled into my kids ,we’re knowing exits ( and ignore emergency exit only ) and watch for people paying to much attention to them or to little .

 Venues that collect tickets or $, tend to have one entrance, and everyone shuffles along towards it when leaving, when you can leave in any exit door, in emergency’s people make that fatal mistake as well . Look at the Great White tragedy, people waited to long and then went to the front door to die ,like a cork stuck in a bottle .

Edited April 27, 2019 by Stay at home Nomad

[Rattler]

The other day I had a woman tell me she just noticed someone backed into her car, but didn't know when it happened.  She assumed it was when she went to the store about 3 days prior, as it was home in her drive since then.  She never noticed the front bumper was hanging off the car on the driver's side with the parking light falling out.

She does notice every little detail of everything her husband does though.  I guess that's selective awareness.

 

Edited April 27, 2019 by Rattler

[The_Field_Ager]

women have notoriously poor situational awareness. 

[Rattler]

8 minutes ago, The_Field_Ager said:

women have notoriously poor situational awareness. 

Not when other women are around their man they don't.

[Nomad]

48 minutes ago, The_Field_Ager said:

women have notoriously poor situational awareness. 

We were in FLA. at a park walking our dog me the wife and her sister , it’s a long road leading into,park ,with two roads off it that go,into,the park .

We’re walking facing traffic ,( basically none ) from behind I hear a car ,I turn and see a white car slowing like it wants to, turn right ,but not sure. Another car is coming fast behind it, so,I know it’ll go around white car ,which would put it close to my SIL on our side of road from behind her .

I yell “ watch out,” she says “ what?” I repeat ,” watch out “, she repeats , “ what ?”  Zoom car flys by , she jumps ......

Perhaps I should have yelled “ Car ?” 

She never heard the car,or reacted to my two warnings .

[philoshop]

I won't normally sit with my back to the street entrance part of a restaurant. The exception would be in a place like Parker's Grille where we had our GTG and I figured all of you guys sitting across the table from me were carrying and would give me a heads up if required. It also would have been weird with all of us sitting on one side of the table looking like a "Last Supper" tableau. ;-)