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Question for November 12 - 18, 1998:

Which would you rather be trapped in a cage with...

AN ANGRY GORILLA

OR

A guy with a hook instead of a right hand who thinks he's an angry gorilla but isn't?

 

Details:

  • I threw this together at the last second so if you don't like it, too bad. Go to some other guy's "Which would you rather be trapped with" page and vote there.

  • You are trapped in a cage like in a zoo, and there's people there who can see you. But no one can help you on account of your cage is separated from them by a wide gulf (a pit). The cage is about 10 x 10 x 10 feet in dimensions. It has no way out.

  • The gorilla is a full grown, strong, angry gorilla.

  • The guy is a full grown guy, and as I said he has a hook instead of a right hand, and he really believes he is an angry gorilla and will act as such. He's obviously not as strong as that gorilla but as I said he has a hook instead of a right hand.

  • There is nothing else in the cage, i.e. weapons.

RESULTS:

Guy : 9
GORILLA: 4


Name: devang
Choice: Guy
Comments: I think i could take the guy with the hook. I mean, he's only got one hand and the other one he would flail around. I'll just run around till he gets tired or confused and then kick him in the head for making me run.


Name: Scott "I'm out of nicknames" Galbraith
Choice: Gorilla
Comments: I'm sure he's ticklish.


Name: Scott Hardister
Choice: Gorilla
Comments: plain and simple: the gorilla doesn't have a hook!


Name: Mr. Hook
Choice: Guy
Comments: Gorilla wouldn't understand English


Name: Josh Branham
Choice: Guy
Comments: At least I have a chance of overpowering the guy. I don't think that gorillas stop attacking when you play dead so the guy would definitely be easier to try to beat. Also, if I just sit there, then he might think that I don't pose a threat to him and he might leave me alone.


Name: Joe Slack "er"
Choice: Guy
Comments: Well, this is a tough one. I think that maybe if I was in there with a human, I could talk some sense into him. Of course, knowing me, I would just drive him crazy talking about my problems(especially with girls) and then he would kill himself. Then again, if he really thought he was an angry gorilla, he would bang his chest with his hands, er hand and hook. This would result in his hook becoming imbedded into his chest, causing massive bleeding and rapid death.Hence, I would just be stuck in the cage all alone after a short period of time.


Name: Brian Chadwick
Choice: Guy
Comments: uh, the guy with the hook just seems misunderstood. Deep down he's just a big puppy.


Name: ryan h
Choice: Guy


Name: Daisy Nicholson
Choice: Gorilla
Comments: I could play dead and hopefully the gorilla would leave me alone. The guy with a hook might be mentally deranged and there would be no way to reason with him. Even so, the zoo people would shoot a tranqualizer at a gorilla and I doubt they would shoot at the man.


Name: Bonnie
Choice: Guy
Comments:
I just think I'd have a better chance with this guy. Maybe I could actually reason with him, where as I know I couldn't reason with the gorilla.


Name: Bob
Choice: Guy
Comments: I would choose the guy with the hook because he is nowhere near as strong and I might be able to win that fight. Anyway a guy with a hook on his hand is like a horror movie so I just have to be the one guy who lives and I will be able to make it.


Name: Noremac
Choice: Gorilla
Comments: They say that music can calm the savage beast. Well I would serenade the angry beast until it settled down enough to approach safely. Then I would ask him to join me in a duet.


Name: Kevin
Choice: Guy
Comments: This was a trick question and Joe Slack (of all people) was the only one to pick up on it. The guy thinks he's a gorilla, so like any guy who does a gorilla impression, he will bang on his chest. And since he's not all there he'll probably be careless enough to bang on his chest with the hook, and so he will mutilate himself.

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