10 Tips That Could Save Your Life

[Music] hey guys what's up it's Charlie here and today we're going to be looking at ten tips that could save your life you never know when you may be in a dangerous situation where you need your life saved well here are some tips to keep you very safe in the modern world and also some tips for survival in pretty much any situation before we get into it whiner subscribe and press the notification bell - coming in at number 10 we have two-way mirror so what could be creepier than someone looking at you in a two-way mirror believe it or not every year there are hundreds of reports of two-way mirrors in changing rooms and bathrooms but how can you tell whether it's a two-way mirror or not well there is actually a little-known way to see whether you're looking in the two-way mirror or a one-way mirror it's called the fingernail test and determines whether you're looking in a two-way mirror or not all you need to do is place your fingernail on the surface of the mirror if there's a gap between the reflection and your finger then you're safe as you're looking in a regular mirror but if there's no gap between your finger and its reflection if then you're looking in a two-way mirror and you better not do anything too embarrassing in front of the mirror so before you go to a bathroom or dressing room make sure you do the fingernail test you never know it could save you a lot of embarrassment of someone looking at you for a two-way mirror next up is elevators so elevators are good for getting around in tall buildings they definitely save you a lot of time the only problem with elevators is sometimes they stop when other people need to get in and out but what if you're in an emergency situation and you cannot stop at another floor well here's a trick to make an elevator into an express elevator this is a trick used by police to get two floors quicker of course police can't just stop the elevators when they need to get to a major situation so if you're ever in an emergency here's how to use an elevator without it stopping first off hold the closed door button until the doors close and then keep holding it then press the floor button you want to go to and do not let go of the number or the closed door button until the elevator begins to move this actually allows you to go straight to that floor without the elevator stopping this works on every single elevator but only use it in an emergency it's very selfish to use otherwise so make sure you're in an emergency before using this next up is brake failure so what could be scarier than driving down here in New York then reaching for the brakes and realizing that they failed you may think you're absolutely done for but don't worry it's actually a survival tip to actually make your brakes work after they fail all you have to do is start pumping the brake pedal fast and hard this builds up brake fluid pressure of course another thing you could do to aid this is to use the parking brake and if you run out of all options you could scrape your car against a guardrail to slow it down however this will ruin your car and could go wrong so only use that as a last resort next up is car underwater so let's say your brakes failed and you didn't know those survival tips from before you end up in a lake or pond and you may think you're done for but one thing you can do to escape your sinking car is make sure you open your doors as soon as you hit the water it's good to get the doors open before any water pressure makes it impossible if you can't do that then use the metal part of your seatbelt to break the window but if both of these fail make sure you stay calm and just wait for the water to flow into the car then once enough water is in the car the pressure will equalize and the doors should open automatically next up is crayon candles so if this is a survival tip for anyone going out in the wild or if you're in an area with a power cut in power cuts or the wilderness sometimes all the electricity can go out and this of course does include lights now many people use candles but what if you don't have a candle well something most people do have lying around somewhere in the house is a crayon believe it or not you can set fire to a crane like a candle and it will stay lit for ages crowns are made of wax much like candles making them great fire burners they emit a very strong amount of light and really do help out in a survival situation but these aren't just good and power cuts it's also recommended that you bring some matches a lighter and some crayons out with you when you go camping that way even if all the wood gets wet and you can't make a fire you can't still have light using crayons it seems silly to use kids crayons to help you survive out in the wild but they really do work and have been used by survival experts for years next up is elevator failure so we've already seen how to make an elevator skip floors and the event of an emergency but what if something terrible happens with the elevator itself we've all seen in movies where elevator shafts fail and the elevator falls down the shaft if you've ever seen an elevator shaft you may think falling down on one of those things means you're done for well there's a big widespread misconception that if you jump the moment the elevator hits the floor you'll somehow decrease the impact on your body however this is a massive myth and will likely cause you to pass away whoever spread that myth really is pretty evil and also the tip makes no sense seeing as you can't see free metal so you won't know when to jump so Charlie what do you actually do to survive an elevator fall well nothing is guaranteed but the best way to survive it is to lie on your back on the floor and cover your face by lying flat with your back on the floor this dish repeats your bodyweight this makes it much less likely that you'll thud on the floor you need to also cover your head and hands as there likely will be falling debris luckily elevate accidents like this are incredibly rare but should it ever happen do not jump on impact instead you need to spread your entire body on the floor and cover your head and face next up is snake venom so let's say you're out in the wilderness and all of a sudden you see a snake you unwisely don't avoid it so the snake strikes and bites you now you have venom inside your body and you could pass away you may have seen on TV shows that are the best bet is to suck out the venom but much like the jumping in a falling elevator tip this is total bogus you should actually never ever psych venom out of the snake bite as it's very dangerous instead it can actually help to spread the venom in the bite and also damage the skin around the bite some people think that the person sucking the venom out will also pass away seeing as they've ingested the venom however that's incredibly unlikely and they would be fine however you might not be so how do you actually treat a snakebite instead what you really should have is a suction device for removing the Venna this suction device is specially made for snake bites and is much more effective than sucking it out some think that using a tonic a is the best bet however many would advise against that as well as tourniquets can damage nerves and blood flow for example one day in Tennessee a pacify helped the farmer who'd been bitten by a snake he used two tonic a however that actually ended up taking the farmers life this was because his blood pressure dropped so much so instead of using a tonic a or sucking it out use a suction device and of course seek a hospital as soon as possible next up is key self defense so when I say key self defense I don't mean basic self defense I mean self defense using a key let's say you're walking down a dark alley one night and you creepy guy behind you it may be your instinct to grab your keys kind of like this this way it makes kind of a spiky brass knuckle around your hand but believe it or not this is not the best way to do it keys can actually be used as a good self-defense mechanism but the technique known as the Wolverine where you put your keys in between your fingers it's not a good idea instead you should do things a lot more basically simply cross for your keys in your fist like what's shown on screen this is a much better way to defend yourself then you simply need to jab anyone who comes near you however some self-defense experts say that keys aren't the best way they say keys create an illusion of safety and if they're near enough to use keys you're better off doing something like pulling their hair or poking them in the eyes next up is fire-starting so you know a good way to make light is to set fire to a candle but what if you have no lighter or matches to start a fire will have no fear there's actually a very simple way to generate flames with almost no resources all you need to say battery in two small pieces of foil you can even use a gum wrapper in many cases what you need to do is place each end of the foil at both ends of the bathroom then the foil will heat up and burn you'll soon managed to get a flame and then simply use grass leaves or twigs to get the fire going you can actually use things like Doritos and other corn chips to help the fire start it's pretty surprising but Doritos are very flammable also if you have any hand sanitizer that helps start fires to despite it being a liquid hand sanitizers are mostly made of alcohol of course alcohol is very flammable so this also helps when starting fires next up is code word so let's say in a very unlikely situation you're kidnapped you may think there's no way out but many kidnappers actually let their hostages contact their family and friends they often do this to make sure your family doesn't worry and call the cops they may tell you to call or text a family member saying that you're alright but in this situation you can use that to make a family aware that you've been taken what you need to do is make a code word for example your code word could be I'm fine then if you call a family friend or text them saying I'm fine they'll know that something is wrong this is a very simple method and all you have to do is agree to it beforehand so make sure you invent a code word with all your family members it may sound slightly too proactive but you never know when it could save your life just think about how amazing it would be to free yourself from a situation like that you just a code word believe it or not there have been many instances of this actually working out including one where a hostage simply wrote my pizza receipt a special code so definitely try and make some code words with your families it could save your life check out the portlet report cornered for the most useful survival tip on this list I think it's the elevator tip ass that is so helpful in an emergency however with great power does come great responsibility so don't use the elevator tip when you don't need to it's important to you only abuse the elevator tip and a big emergency and not for convenience if you guys want more amazing videos including tips check out my second channel they'll be a link to that on screen and in moments but as always thanks for watching check out some more videos on screen right now leave a like if you enjoyed and if you haven't told you what you're waiting for subscribe to top tens [Music]

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Length: 10min 0sec (600 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 27 2018