DRYER LINT: MUST-HAVE SURVIVAL GEAR

DRYER LINT: MUST-HAVE SURVIVAL GEAR

FORT WASHINGTON, Penn. (Wireless Flash) – Dryer lint may be annoying to you – but it can also save your life. Two survival experts claim that if you’re stuck on a desert island, a pocket full of dryer lint makes great tinder for a signal fire. Josh Piven and David Borgenicht – co-authors of the Worst-Case Scenario series of books – also uncovered other offbeat survival tools including... Vaseline, which you can insert up your nose to keep sand from blowing into your sinuses. Aluminum cans, which can be used to signal rescue ships by reflecting sunlight off their shiny exteriors. And capsules of the anti-diarrhea medicine Imodium can be broken up and spread on the ground to spell out SOS.

Tue 08-21-01