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Check Out These DIY Weapons Made Using…Trash

Joerg Sprave has done it again. The man who maintains the Slingshot Channel on YouTube has released yet another DIY tutorial of weapons made from every day items. This time he is showing you how to weaponize your own trash.

(Related: Ever wanted to know how to turn office supplies into mini weapons? Here’s your video)

Responding to a challenge from COLORS magazine, Sprave dives into items salvaged from garbage. He headed to his local forest to forage for the trash, which may seem like unusual location, but he seems to have found a broom handle, cat food cans, a pair of jeans, clothes line, crushed red chili (he calls this a “valuable find”), a perfume bottle, batteries, a clothes pin and a pair of “quite clean” and “snappy” rubber gloves. One can only imagine what Sprave will make from these items, but here’s a quick list to fill you in:

  • “Very, very vicious red” pepper spray
  • Bolas
  • Crossbow

(Related: See other posts on the Blaze of Joerg Sprave’s videos)

Slingshot Channel Releases Weapon Made From Salvaged Trash

Sprave's homemade crushed pepper spray. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

Slingshot Channel Releases Weapon Made From Salvaged Trash

Testing out the pepper spray. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

Slingshot Channel Releases Weapon Made From Salvaged Trash

Bolas made from cat food cans filled with batteries to make them heavy (although Sprave recommends using rocks, not batteries). (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

Slingshot Channel Releases Weapon Made From Salvaged Trash

Sprave fires his crossbow made from a broken broom handle and rubber gloves. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)

Check out the whole tutorial about “How to Weaponize Trash” for yourself (Note: If you stick it out to the end, you can see some of Sprave’s new slingshots, one of which he hopes to break a Guinness World Record with):

[H/T Gizmodo]

Comments (23)

  • nocommie
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:22am

    The problem with gun control,I will find a better way.

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  • SgtB
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:37am

    Further proof that you cannot outlaw weapons. The only way to keep people from being able to obtain or make weapons is to put them to sleep. The human mind is creative and if there is the will, there is a way. Even if big bro took all of our guns and ammo today, people like myself would be buying rigid industrial pipe, car batteries, charcoal, dusting sulfur, and tree stump remover. With these inocuous items, I could build a crude gun or a pipe bomb. If you sold me powdered aluminum and I was able to scrounge up some rust metal, then I could make incendiary bombs as well. And this is the hard to do stuff. An even easier weapon would be a 5 gallon can of gasoline, like the ones in my garden shed right now.

    No, you cannot outlaw weapons and to try is a futile effort of an ignorant and scared human being.

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:42am

    Somewhere, Vlad Tepes has a HUGE smile!

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  • jespasinthru
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 1:20am

    And sooner or later some killer nerd is going to show up on the internet with instructions on how to turn a Super Soaker into a flamethrower.

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  • bmel
    Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:24am

    FM‘s Oh I’m notlisting title‘s here and the Poor man’s blank anyone?

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  • mochili
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:48pm

    is there a 3 day waiting period?

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:44pm

    Mercy! If trash can kill people we better ban trash!

    Report Post » MeteoricLimbo  
  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:03pm

    I found a large club in the trash. I made a club.

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  • Chet Hempstead
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:16pm

    Weapons from the trash? Metal snips + can lids = unlimited supply of crude shurikens. They aren’t very accurate, but if you whip them at a dude a handful at a time, you can’t fail to slice him to ribbons.

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  • Constructionist
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:12pm

    MacGruber…

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  • BeingThere
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:54pm

    Love this guy!!! I have a challenge for Joerg. How about making some weapons out of the trash in DC? Or maybe not, they‘d probably cost too much and wouldn’t work!

    Report Post » BeingThere  
  • jakartaman
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:36pm

    Nothing for nothing but I would rather my mMssberg shotgun, ar-15 and Browning BAR.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:51pm

      I agree, but knowing how to build some of these items could be critical. The firearms are only good as long as you have ammo.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:09pm

      @JAKARTAMAN
      I’ve always wanted to fire a BAR never had the chance. If you have one thats awesome.
      @TAQUOSHI
      That’s why you have lots and lots and lots of ammo . Besides loaded gun vs. trash weapons = gun wins every single time.

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    • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:12pm

      Come the zombie apocalypse, firearm ammunition will run out while this guy’s still flinging hazel nuts into undead craniums.

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    • Ramv36
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:16pm

      Browning BAR he’s most like referring to is one of their high-line hunting rifles, described thus:

      “The BAR is a gas-operated, semi-automatic rifle produced by the Browning Arms Company first in Belgium and later in Japan. The rifle loads from a box magazine detachable from a hinged floor plate. This rifle should not be confused with the M1918 military rifle, which is a completely different design sharing no parts, though also referred to as the BAR. Browning introduced a redesigned BAR in 2004.
      There are several models of the Browning BAR; Safari, Long- and ShortTrac, and Lightweight Stalker. Both LongTrac and ShortTrac versions are available in a Mossy Oak takedown, basic, and Stalker variant.
      The Safari model is the most luxurious model in the BAR-line, with an engraved steel receiver and more luxurious walnut stock. The barrel is 22, 23, or 24 inches long depending on the caliber. The Safari is the only model with the Browning BOSS (Ballistic Optimizing Shooting System). The system reduces recoil and should enhance accuracy with an adjustable muzzle brake and -weight.”

      I’ve always wanted a BAR hunting rifle myself. They’re fine specimens and one of only a few semi-auto rifles capable of matching the accuracy and precision of their bolt-action counterparts.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 12:20pm

    McGiver on a super limited budget?

    Report Post » RJJinGadsden  

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