NPR: Doom-Prevention Gear for Straphangers

Doom-Prevention Gear for Straphangers

All yours for just $27.99

Car ownership is a rare thing among BPP staffers and New Yorkers in general. The subway is a great way to get around -- except, of course, when fares go up, the train is filthy, or the employees all go on strike.

To one company, those complaints are the least of your worries. They think of your cozy subway car as a magnet for terrorists, fire, poison gas and shattered glass. The solution? Housebag, of course!

Not really. It's Subivor, and it's actually a real product. (Turn down your speakers before you click through. The ad on the page includes ominous music, sirens and screams at high volume.) So what do you need to survive any subway peril? Apparently just a survival mask, flashlight, whistle, something called a pry bar and, naturally, a moist towelette. And for just $27.99, you can get all of that and more in a little bag available in your choice of fun reflective colors: pink, orange, green or yellow. I'm not making any of this up.

I won't be stocking up on Subivors, but I would gladly drop 30 bucks, or more, for something that would stop people who hog seats and/or find my subway car the perfect place to test all the ringtones, loudly, on their mobile phones.

Mark Garrison

2:01 PM ET | 04-25-2008 | permalink

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re pry bar. For dislodging seathogs, particular useful for pregnant women (cf Alison's post).

Sent by Marc Naimark | 5:53 PM ET | 04-25-2008

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