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Old Nov 19, 2010, 9:15 am
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Originally Posted by BearX220
You can garrot somebody with dental floss. You can blind someone by spraying deodorant in their eyes. You can give someone an unwanted tracheotomy with a ballpoint pen. You can knock someone cold with a laptop battery. You can remove somone's eye with a knitting needle. You can use the tiny file on a nail clipper to saw a Coke can in half, then slash someone's throat open with the resulting edge. The possibilities are endless.
I don't think I'd want to be around you if you ever got really angry.

But you're right. Forget carry-ons -- my keys could make serviceable brass knuckles, my necktie a garrote, my pin a stabbing instrument, and my shoe a sap. Even a rolled-up magazine can make a club.
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