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Originally Posted by rubberduckofdeath
5. The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.
12. Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.
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There's a brilliant bit in a Christopher Brookmyre book where a guy tries to escape from terrorists in the venitlation ducts... makes a load of noise, gets stuck, is sick on a terrorist becaues of claustrophobia, then falls through the roof.
And with the exploding cars... There was a study in the states that concluded that one fo the reasons that deaths from fires in crashes have risen despite safety improvements, is that people won't go near a burning car- everyone knows they always blow up, so people get left to slowly burn to death. Lovely. Likewise, there was a suspected (though not proven) increase in paralysing injuries caused by people dragging crash victims out of lightly damaged cars on the assumption that they'd probably blow up.