Comments on: Let’s play a game…

By: Arizona Rifleman

Arizona Rifleman — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:30:57 +0000

Aaron: Alas, physics labs tend to have large, heavy (e.g. immovable) instruments. Unless we can force the bad guys into the accelerator beamline there’s not much we can do to them in the lab.

Maybe hit them with a wrench or something?

By: Aaron T.

Aaron T. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:14:35 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never felt disarmed while being in a campus laboratory. Physics labs may be different, but around chemistry labs (which are the ones that I am most familiar with) there are plenty of things that can be used as weapons. Lots of concentrated acids/bases, glassware, acids/bases in glassware, flamables, tools, etc. That’s part of why chemistry is so fun, you get to play with lots of potentially nasty stuff and are able to do it in a way that you can live to tell about it.

By: Brass

Brass — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:40:14 +0000

Take the tube of a standing lamp and pull the cord out. Take a piece of paper and roll it into a cone shape that just fits the tube. Put a nail into the cone until it comes out the small end and tape it into place. There you have it, a blow gun.

By: flashman

flashman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:56:16 +0000

Well, you can sharpen one edge of a credit card simply by dragging it along a concrete wall. This can be used to cut an opponent’s throat.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:40:54 +0000

Take the junk mail flyers from your mail box today, roll them up in a slightly cone shaped manner, hold the thick end firmly, and the pointy end becomes an adequate stabbing weapon – not as sharp as a knife, but very durable and rigid enough to put dents in dry wall. It may or may not be able to penetrate someone’s torso, but it concentrates a lot of force in a small area and a jab to the mid section would be extremely painful.

By: Douglas Hall

Douglas Hall — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:06:51 +0000

Computer Parts Only:

Hard drives are good for bashing and any bare PCB is good for slashing.
If you’ve got a computer case without rolled edges just hacksaw of a chunk of it and you’ve got yourself a pretty good knife (though I have a feeling the hacksaw would be a good enough weapon without dismembering a computer case).
Power strips of decent size could be used as a makeshift flail.
Ethernet cable could serve well as a whip if tied onto the end of some sort of stick.

By: Bill Rushmore

Bill Rushmore — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:57:14 +0000

Although I can’t claim credit for it, what would go to Homer Simpson, but you have the cinder block in a chain.

As for the rubber chicken, you could cut up the rubber and make a nice little sling shot out of it and send various sharp objects at people.

By: Jdude

Jdude — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:24:21 +0000

I am going to quote this on my site.

By: Jdude

Jdude — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:21:16 +0000

A quick trip from the garage to the kitchen:

An electric drill, the broom. Box of nails. Electrical tape. The oven, cups, plates, forks. Ice tea. Pecan pie.

Here we go. Set the pie and tea out for an unsuspecting brit to bend over and attempt to pick up. Our over the pond friend is unable to do so because the pie is nailed to the ground.

Meanwhile, drill holes in the forks. run nails through them and bend the forks so the nails won’t come out. Tape them all together in one giant wad of doom. Take a dozen or so 4 foot strips of tape, and tape them to the broom handle like a mace. Sharpen the broom handle on the concrete while you are at it.

While the Queen struggles with the pie, smack her over the head with the fork-nail mace. If the mace does not come apart, repeat. If it does fall apart, poke her with the stick.

Shove her in the oven for the win.

-Jdude