[Request] Reason for woman to destroy her own clothes

[rojoa]

Originally Posted by sirseph

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[jm6379]

You are right, about 1-2 seconds at best.

Originally Posted by i_am_sirrender

Indeed. :-)

jm6379, at a guess, how much time would one tend to have to get out of the way after removing the radiator cap before they were covered in boiling liquid? I mean, if she had no other choice but to sit out the rest of the race with a conked out car. I wouldn't think she'd have more than a second or two to run like hell.

[i_am_sirrender]

Originally Posted by sirseph

My thought was a bit of artistic license in that looking for water until she found the well would give the engine time to cool below the danger point. Probably not in real life, but I thought we might be able to fudge a bit with fiction.

Heh, sorry I didn't catch on to that. You make a good point, though. It's not like this story is particularly grounded in reality anyway. heheh I like how the ENF turns out to be unnecessary in the end with this spin on it. I may owe you a chicken dinner (as in winner winner ).

[uanime5]

Why not have the women put her wet clothes onto the engine to cool it, rather than have her put the water from her clothes into the engine. Her clothes could end up damaged after doing this several times.

Alternative the woman could be lost and burns her clothes to try and attract the attention of someone nearby (this will only work in locations with no flammable materials). This idea is based on a jogger who got lost in the desert and burned his bags to try and attract the attention of a helicopter.

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[ob45lol]

If you can track down a nice little story by Meepo the Kobbold about one of his characters discovering Phlogiston, you could construct something around the notion that someone trying to handle the stuff is careless, it cathes her sleeve or something, and since sheknows what will happen if she fails to act, she starts to cut bits of material away, or rips it.