There are only a few ways of getting out of it alive. The one rule - no matter how good it feels - DO NOT let sleep whisk you away.The only options are as follows:1. Cover yourself completely in plastic and only stick your head out to breathe when necessarily.2. Crawl into a cardboard box and try your best to stay awake.3. Take the frozen goods and stick them into your clothing. That is how you stay alive if you are trapped inside of a commercial walk in freezer. Or at least that’s what they say but the odds of survival do not look good. The police are concerned that, that is where 5 year old, Ashley, is going to be. Maybe she accidentally locked herself in the freezer with no way out? The officers look through the freezer bins, cardboard boxes filled with packaged meats, and grocery bags… She’s is not there.But that’s the thing about humans - we all have a blind spot.They looked left, right, under the tables of the restaurant… but have they looked up? Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com
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There are only so many places you can hide inside of a restaurant. But the problem is almost every single spot is relatively easy to search. The bathroom requires someone sticking their head under the stall. You're going to be caught. They're going to appear. They're going to make sure nobody is hiding and they're going to see you. The stock rooms, the kitchen, same thing.
You get one person poking around, hide and seek is over. There's not that many hiding spots. which leaves just that one door, the steel door. It's like the size of a small closet. Sometimes the room is, it's like a small room.
And if you step inside and you close that door behind you, you might as well have taken a portal to a different world because once that door clicks shut, the gasping, the shivering, the numbness, you can't feel your ears. You can't feel your fingers. You're trying to bang on the door to be let out, but you're more clumsy.
It's normal because this is exactly what happens when you are trapped inside of a giant freezer. The idea of working with a freezer big enough for you to walk into and then being trapped inside of one has seemingly become one of the top 15 slightly irrational fears of the everyday person.
I have yet to step foot inside of a commercial walk-in freezer, but I do have random, perhaps intrusive thoughts about being trapped in one. So much so that there are Ask Reddit threads asking people, in the hypothetical world, if you were to be trapped inside of a commercial walk-in freezer for the night, let's say at a restaurant, what do you do to survive? Nobody's coming until the morning.
The answers really don't do anything to make you less paranoid. I would take the cold boxes of food and create an ice shelter type of structure. So you want to prevent the blowing air from cooling you down to the point of hypothermia. That's how you're going to circulate your inner warmth.
Another professional Reddit survivalist writes, many restaurants have large plastic bags in or on those wire racks. If that's the case, take two bags, wrap yourselves in them, utilize your body temperature by breathing inside the bag, but not enough to suffocate yourself. Come out for air every now and then. You'll last eight hours. One person comments, I worked at a fish and chip shop once.
Got loads of pies and food and, you know, stuff back there. I would just stuff them into my clothes. I would put them in my pants. I'd put them in my shirt. Yeah, they're frozen pies. It's going to feel freezing for the first 10, 20 minutes. And then after that, it'll actually somewhat insulate you. That's how it works. That is crazy how creative people are.
I mean, probably the best advice, the most simple advice comes from one professional that works with industrial freezers. He says, best thing to do if you're trapped, find something to stick into the fan blade so they stop turning. It's gonna overheat the compressor outside, the cooler's gonna stop cooling, the temperature alarm's gonna sound, and then you'll get out.
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