How many five year olds could you take?

[Justin from Detroit1]

This was asked in another forum i frequent, and I'm taking it word for word:

Rules:

- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.

- You are not allowed to touch a wall.

- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."

- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.

- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.

- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.

- The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.


Been having this stupid fucking debate with some friends and the answers vary wildly from 5 to 80. I am of the opinion that I could take around 40, no matter how well trained they are you can still run faster than them. My plan would be to run away to the other side of the room, wait for them to chase after me and kick 3 or 4 in the head. When they start to swarm, I run away again and repeat. If they managed to grab onto my legs so I couldn't run away I would start punching them in the top of the head or even banging heads together. I don't see how they could stop a kick to the head, and I can't imagine what someone would train them to do.

[Mercedesbends69]

I think I could tear up quite a few little kids too. Putting an exact number on it could be tough though.

[Mithrandir]

Thats sick, lol

[audiobass10]

First of all, this is probably the best thread i've read in a while. Kicking 5 year old's asses sounds fun, especially when they think that one day of training will help them. Although it may seem cruel, I'd probably start off by kicking them until they got bruised pretty badly. Hopefully a kick in the head or two would give them a nice bit of pain. After the kids bounce back from the kick..I would probably just bitch slap most of them, with the occasional jab to the eye. 5 year olds piss me off before they attempt to kick my ass. I couldn't imagine not being able to take 30-50 of them, but let's just say that 20 of the kids are total pussies. Id definitely be able to straight up whoop 20-30 tough little shits.

[Jszar]

a five year old has no strength, they could never win unless there were so many that you couldnt out run them and they could somehow tackle you. it would all depend on the size of the room. if it were like a football field size, i'd say i could take maybe 70. one punch and they'd be down, one kick and they'd be dead. once they start falling it'd get easier though, cause there is more room and less of them obviously. so if you start off good, i'm sure any normal sized male could take close to one hundred.

[Jszar]

lol, i'd start off just running through a corwd of them as fast as i could, it'd be like a horse running through a bunch of men....like in lord of the rings or something.

[GlassWolf]

is a domestic-made shotgun considered a foreign object?

*pictures a screenshot from DOOM*

[Justin from Detroit1]

You guys are all forgetting one thing....

5 YEAR OLDS BITE.

[Ryan from Ohio]

I have an almost 5 year old.

This post is rather strange and..... well hell with it. I cant think of the word. Its way to late

[ridr4lif]

I dont know how many kids i could take on. Probably quite a few...i have a high tolerance for pain and a 5 year old doesnt.

TEDD