The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?
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I think that if I grabbed one and used him/her as a weapon, I could windmill my way through quite a lot of the little blighters easy. The number is just a question of fitness, and how many I could KO before fatigue sets in.
30? 50 if they are dressed up in Man U kits?
The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?
The specifics:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant.
* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
I think that if I grabbed one and used him/her as a weapon, I could windmill my way through quite a lot of the little blighters easy. The number is just a question of fitness, and how many I could KO before fatigue sets in.
30? 50 if they are dressed up in Man U kits?
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i think their big advantage would be the force of sheer numbers...a crowd could swell around you and force you down by its weight. you cant let them near your feet...if they grab on, youre done. but once you start piling bodies up, id have to think they would be at a disadvantage and lose the ability to swarm as a mob
While your grabbing that one to use as a weapon, another is smashing you in the nuts and another is gouging you in the eyes. I think 10 would be tough. Try it, you have a school nearby?
You can't take 100 5 year olds. You've seen these little bastards these days? I lifted a 5 year old from the hood up into the firetruck last year, I swear they must've only fed him raw meat and potatoes. Kid weighed a solid 70. If he's in your sampling, it's over. Total gamer.
the toughest part would be to keep some separation with head kicks and roundhouse temple shots. but if they grab you, you fly elbows down on their head. youre right, the mob would make extended kicks difficult, but just by force of forearms and knees...especially knees, you could fuck up the initial wave and create some carcasses that would be an obstacle to the rest of them, at which point you can extend a little
would definitely be some work
oh yeah, sween, i remember a massive little 7 year old who a teacher asked me to bring to the office and i wasnt able to even push down the hallway when he grounded his weight
get REAL!
I'd say 10 tops........I'm not a big dude, but reach, height and fitness taken into account that's a good effort with the little fuckers these days!
i dont know about 100...but i could definitely take out a classroom of kindergarteners. so im basing my numbers on that
The fact you have to be knocked out to lose gives me a bit more confidence as I have a fairly solid chin and could no doubt take a few pint sized hard shots while reeling in agony from the constant punches to the nuts but I still don't think I can go higher than ten as all it takes is for one of the little buggers to headbutt me and I could be down for the count.
Slightly off topic, a fair few years ago a friend and I were out having a few after work drinks when he somehow managed to antagonise the largest of a group of about 15 kids probably ranging in age between 11 and 13. One thing led to another and, in trying to protectively swat away the child giant intent on trying to punch him, my friend accidentally caught the kid with the back of his hand leaving a definite mark.
I thought the wisest thing to do at that point was for us to make a quick exit so we started walking off and headed down a nearby walkway to escape. Halfway down and now laughing at the situation we suddenly heard the sound of thunder and looked behind us to see all fifteen kids charging after us with a look of murder in their eyes.
We wisely ran away.
Not sure how you go about motivating 5 yr olds to be unafraid of death, but I suspect it would take more than a pep-talk from Steven Seagal.
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it said i could take 30. i think at that point, if youre in shape and not likely to get winded, you can go for more
And then there's cannibalism. If you're expecting us to believe that you're going to start chowing down on unseasoned 5-yr old, then why is it hard to imagine that these are some kill-or-be-killed 5 yr olds? Ever been to North Korea?
although there's those kids in Afghanistan who will happily take a swing at a passing, heavily armed, soldier twice his size. So maybe a few of those as well.
If you'd grab the first one, rip the throat out with your teeth, grab the dying brat at the feet and start hammering onto the rest of them, you could probably scare some 100-150 into running away but if the little ones were told to attack all at once, climb on top of each other and go for your balls and eyes, 50 of them could take you apart within minutes.
Excellent, I feel much better prepared for the apocalypse now.
You hit a 5 year old, said 5 year old cries.
Another 5 year old sees you hit said 5 year old... gets too scurred to attack.
As long as the initial attack is wild enough, the crowd will back the hell down... cause they're 5.
Its part of their nature as 5 years olds.
B/w
This thread is weird.
Still think I could take out more than 30. Tripledouble's knee-to-the-face and elbows combination, plus windmilling one like Conan.