Could you escape a Fridge/Freezer?

[EmailAddress]

Random book. Guy gets shut in a floor chest freezer. Then some unassailable lump is placed on the lid. Sealing him in the white goods coffin.

I find it unlikely that this is a death sentence. The book guy made it a lot more dramatic.

You have been shut in a floor chest freezer and say 80+kg is sitting on the lid.

Can you escape?

[StoutBench]

Would never happen, I'd dominate the stairs.

[EmailAddress]

StoutBench said:

Would never happen, I'd dominate the stairs.

You never sleep?

I'm waiting. For a struggle cuddle.

[JoshSm]

You're shut into a small airtight metal box that's a bit too tight to move around in, with 80Kg on top of a lid that's hinged on one side?

Not necessarily impossible to get out assuming you were motivated & get yourself in the right position to push, but it wouldn't be easy.

The basic trap is certainly capable of doing the job and not trivial to escape alive.

[InitialDave]

EmailAddress said:

You have been shut in a floor chest freezer and say 80+kg is sitting on the lid.

Can you escape?

Hmm.

I can bench a lot more than that, but you're in an awkward position and at a bit of a disadvantage with it being a hinged lid rather than just a lump in top of you you have to wrestle off.

If there's room for whatever it is to fall to the side as the lid moves, maybe. If the lid opens up against a wall, I think it'd be quite a struggle.

I suppose as long as you can wedge the lid open with your foot or something if you get it open a little bit, you won't suffocate.

[Monkeylegend]

That would be my worst nightmare.

My hands are sweaty just thinking about it.

[Milkyway]

I just have to clarify one thing... Is it switched on?

Edited by Milkyway on Monday 19th May 21:30

[gotoPzero]

Depends, what food is in there? We talking ice cream and lollies or 20kg of frozen cod?

[Terminator X]

Depends on the weight surely. In the film Shallow Grave they put many bags of concrete on the lid.

TX.

Edit - worst nightmare, trapped in something that falls over so the door is then impossible to open. Like those kids that died when a chest of drawers fell over when they were in it.

Edited by Terminator X on Monday 19th May 21:46

[GliderRider]

Kicking an end out may be an option if there is enough room to move and the fridge freezer is not between two immovable objects. It would probably take several kicks to tear each spotweld and break the lining material.

[White-Noise]

Hopefully the weight could be slid backwards and fall off with a few lift bumps

[MattsCar]

No idea, but someone must have an old one kicking about and can make a video to answer the question.

[PBCD]

EmailAddress said:

Random book. Guy gets shut in a floor chest freezer. Then some unassailable lump is placed on the lid. Sealing him in the white goods coffin.

There's actually a Stephen King short story with a very similar premise,
except in that case the victim was trapped in a Portaloo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Tight_Place

[Huzzah]

Fridges are killers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=10Pz8_7H9CQ


As you breath a vacuum forms inside too.

[Alorotom]

MattsCar said:

No idea, but someone must have an old one kicking about and can make a video to answer the question.

They are strewn throughout council areas with willful abandon ... maybe just take some antibacterial wipes to give it a once over first

[P-Jay]

If it was big enough that I could get into a crouch I'm sure I could get out. 80kgs is heavy, but not "omg I can't lift it I accept my fate" heavy.

Actually I can hack squat more than 80kgs, if I could get onto my back with my feet on the lid I could do that too.

[Huzzah]

P-Jay said:

If it was big enough that I could get into a crouch I'm sure I could get out. 80kgs is heavy, but not "omg I can't lift it I accept my fate" heavy.

Actually I can hack squat more than 80kgs, if I could get onto my back with my feet on the lid I could do that too.

You'd need to be sharpish before you ran out of puff.

[P-Jay]

Huzzah said:

You'd need to be sharpish before you ran out of puff.

Yeah speed is your friend, but I'm quite mad with a really over active Fight or Flight response and ADHD, the st that makes day to day life hard sometimes is the perfect st in a crisis.

Anyway, I'm fixated now so I've found a large chest freezer online that has a total capacity of 650L, which at a guess is 500l when you're in it?

Using an equation online that someone wrote to calculate the same problem with a sealed room, I think, if my 500L remaining air space is right you've got 92 mins before you'd die of carbon dioxide toxicity, but another guess is that as time passes you'll get more tired and air quality will fall so if you're not out in 10 you're not getting out.

[vikingaero]

Could a powerfully built company director force the freezer to tip over, thus dislodging the weight?

[Mr Roper]

Piece of piss.