Ever Wanted to Know How to Turn Office Supplies Into Mini Weapons? Here’s Your Video
- Posted on April 23, 2012 at 12:58pm by
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This tutorial is for everyone sitting in an office, most likely reading this post during their lunch hour or afternoon cup of coffee. Take a look around you. What you see are an endless stream of supplies that Jörg Sprave will show you how to turn into DIY weapons.
Sprave writes on his YouTube site that Businessweek challenged him to make weapons out of office supplies for their “how to” series. Making good on the challenge, Sprave — who is well-known as the creator of “The Slinshot Channel” — found there are actually a lot of “heavy, sharp things around” the office environment.
Main materials include paper, pencils, scissors, metal fasteners, rubber bands, hole punches and USB cables. Oh, and don’t forget the Scotch tape. With them, he creates a pencil shooter (a sharp pencil is a must), a flail, “deadly” pick axe, and, of course, a signature slingshot.
Pencil shooter using a sharp pencil, about 10 sheets of paper, a rubber band and scotch tape.
Paper, scissors and a USB cable make for a slingshot that can be worn on your wrist like a bracelet.
If you don't have stones, Sprave says to uses bendable metal fasteners twisted together into a ball.
The Flail made from a hole punch and metal rod.
Most deadly of them all, according to Sprave: the scissors pick axe that he combined with the barrel of the pencil shooter.
See how it’s all done for yourself:
Sprave goes as far as calling the office a “paradise for the eager makeshift weapons maker!”
For more detailed how to instructions, see Businessweek’s story here.
[H/T: io9]
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Comments (66)
FORLORNHOPE
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:00pmHe is KGB macgyver, he can take paper clips stick them in el socket and cut a metal door hinge to escape CIA trap.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:55am@FORLORNHOPE
Report Post »Do you have a voltmeter? Take a quarter and a nickel, get a small piece of paper towel, wet the paper towel in your mouth, place the paper between the coins and measure the DC voltage between the quarter and the nickel. You have just made a battery. Household items and office supplies can do wonderful things.
Ruler4You
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:14amField expedient weapons are something to always keep in the back of your mind. You never know when you may have to defend yourself.
Report Post »ConservDadASD
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:25am@Ruler4you
I know what u mean:
I was at this barren desert place and some lizard-like thing was trying to kill me. After running all over the place, i saw all the various piles of minerals and igneous rocks, and it brought to mind an old idea i learned back in my military academy days. After finding a very wide hollow branch which was kinda like bamboo, I then gathered stuff like coal, sulfer, diamonds and some white powder, mixed them together and thru them into the plant tube. I then took a piece of my shirt and was able to make some sparks to ignite it which i then tossed into the tube in the nick of time, just before that creature was able to get close enough to me. It really knocked him to the ground. Though i had a sharp weapon to then finish him off, i decided to spare him and to tell some people watching our fight that they’ll have to get their entertainment elsewhere. I‘m glad that’s over and i’m glad that i took that primitive field survival course years ago.
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:41pmRemember all this the next time someone goes postal at your office and starts shooting everyone. You can make a not so quick slingshot and save the day, if you live that long.
Report Post »ICRedifURBlue
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:50amBeam me up “Dad”……Kirk would be glad you remembered…….
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:06pmPersonally, the thought of turning office supplies into weapons is not something that would occur to me. If it does to you, perhaps you should think about getting a different job, perhaps one with with a better working environment, or one that doesn’t so much tax your intelligence, or one that pays better. A job without so much pressure from “the Man”, the demanding capitalist who is keeping you down. You’re a genius you know. It’s just that nobody, and I mean nobody, understands that.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:40pm@jzs
Report Post »“Personally, the thought of turning office supplies into weapons is not something that would occur to me.”
Of course it wouldn’t… you don’t have a job. You’re on SSDI for a serious mental disability and live at home in your mommas basement. Now, she does make you eat with a plastic spork, right?
Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:47pmA job without so much pressure from the “man” ?
Is the GSA hiring? I hear they let a few slugs go.
Or did you mean the Secret Service?
Government jobs really attract the cream of the crop……don’t they?
I just love what the democrats have done with our country.
Everybody seems so happy and cheerful lately.
I even hear that the oceans have ceased to rise.
Thanks democrats.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 10:58pmHey Monk,
Do you think we should warn JZS about not trying any of that stuff in his basement?
He might hurt himself.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:33pmMonk, I can only wish I there were a basement I could retreat to when the government and communists (or is it Marxists?) and Muslims take over the country. I’d love to have a defensible refuge where I could hold up with my Goldline coins, freeze dried food and guns and ammo and then take on with firearms the Muslims and Trotskyites and liberals who would deprive me of my freedom. Or freedoms plural, or whatever they’re trying to deprive me of, except earthly pleasures, which, as a or the Monk I deprive myself of, because of my monk-like intellectual stuff.
But alas, like you, I only have my meditative place, a place of serenity where, like you, I pursue deep spirtual thought and deny myself of wordly pleasures. Because I’m a monk, or the monk or some kind of monk.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:47pmNo JZS,
In your case, it’s more like a “punk”
Yes, a “punk”
That fits perfectly.
Manifesto?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:14am@jzs
“Monk, I can only wish I there were a basement I could retreat to…”
“….I there were a basement”?
What in the World are you talking about? Put the bong down and step away from the keyboard….
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:19am@Therightsofbilly
Report Post »I’ve got a special treat for jzs coming up. Watch for the” blah, blah, blah…..” You’ll know it when you see it. : )))))
The-Monk
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:26am@jzs
“…I only have my meditative place….”
Don’t you mean your “Medicated place….?” Put the bong down and step away from the keyboard…..
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:34pmSince the Obama administration won’t come to the aid of the Syrian people with much needed military supplies, maybe he can send them gift cards to their local Office Max.
Report Post »Bobj_1960
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:11pmThis just goes to prove that there are no dangerous weapons, just dangerous people. ( I will grant that by definitions all weapons are dangers, that is what makes them dangers).
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:27pmI’m already a weapon and the ball point pen in my shirt pocket is not only for writing….
Report Post »Lt_Scrounge
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:13pmNo kidding. Nothing is any more dangerous than the person holding it. A firearm is nothing but a paper weight until someone picks it up. You can beat someone to death with a magazine if you want. While I would hope to never have to face a disgruntled employee or another thief in a store that I’m visiting, the fact remains that dangerous things happen. Being prepared to defend oneself is the least that someone can do. When seconds count, the police are at best minutes away. According to the Supreme Court, police have no responsibility to respond to your 911 call. That pair of scissors across the wrist may cause that disgruntled employee to drop the weapon that he might be using to release his rage.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:46am@Lt_Scrounge
Have you ever seen the movie, “The Eiger Sanction” with Clint Eastwood?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/
Clint demonstrates what a rolled up magazine can do….
I also have over 12,000 hours on my main pair of custom made nunchucks. You’d be surprised what is laying around an office that can duplicate them. No need to spend hours making something. A simple PC power cord or USB cable can be deadly. Personally, I think the guy in this article is an idiot.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:44pmNo
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:25pmThat guy has too much time on his hands.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:08pmDwight Schrute thoroughly approves this message.
Report Post »mils
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:04pmwow..really really slow news day huh guys….:)
Report Post »valleyfever
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:01pmI hope TSA didn’t see this.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:28pmOuch!
Report Post »mmmrookatdat
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:37pmIt’s good to know office workers will survive the zombies
Report Post »PatriotDadOfSix
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:02pmDeath by a thousand paper cuts…and I shall collate you to death.
Report Post »tommyB
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:46pmThat dude is hilarious> now we must weaponize make weapons….i must show you damage on melon, see… is good no?
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:03amI was laughing the whole time. I mean, golly, talk about a misplaced Kraut LOL What‘s he doing working in an office LOL Shouldn’t he be like a lumber jack or work in a mine or something LOL What mayhem in an office LOL
Report Post »Harvey1
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:35pmNow that you let the cat out of the bag we will have to get concealed carry permits for office supplies.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:47pmA 3/4 inch galvanized pipe with a union on one end and a drilled out plug and with a nail through it and a spring and lever becomes a 12 Gauge shotgun. All the details are not here but you get my drift.
Report Post »DeVain
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:59pmAs a practitioner of reality based self defense, all I can say is everything is a weapon. But I won‘t take the time to make anything to shoot pencil’s, I‘ll just stab you in the freakin’ neck with one.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:29pmOr, like I do, just bring your 9mm concealed to work…that’s even better!
Report Post »Onesimus
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:05pmThe second or third most deadly object in existance, the human mind.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:58pmNext they will have 3 man teams competing against each other in office wars. LOL!
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:49pmHere comes a new reality show that will bomb,Office wars.
Report Post »busterpuddles
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:49pmI’m not so certain it would bomb. I kinda like the idea… Lazy, loudmouthed, liberal Dem campaign workers vs. self-reliant Conservatives. watch the blood flow.
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:34pmYea, the contestants are killed off, literally.
Report Post »BannedByHuffpo
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:48pmWe used to have a great time making mini-“rockets” with sulphur scraped from match tips encased in a fuselage made of foil from gum wrappers. When you loaded up the equivalent of a whole book of matches into a single gum wrapper you could easily launch one of those damn things across a 50 foot room. Thing was, they were virtually impossible to “aim”. But they sure made for a lot of nyuk, nyuk, nyuks.
Report Post »Vic Tory
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:22pmOffice supplies don’t kill people.
Report Post »Disgruntled co-workers kill people.
HeardInAmerica
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:15pmWell, we all know what this means… it’s time to BAN all Office Products — just in case they make it into the hands of people like Zimmerman… wouldn’t want anyone stabbed to death with a pencil or getting lockjaw from a rusty staple now would we?
Mrs. Obama… HELP US PLEASE. America has become a wasteland of danger — and it’s ALL manmade!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:04pmYes…you can make weapons out of most anything. The cavemen made them out of rocks and sticks.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:28pmYour post reminds me of the time Einstein was asked about the outcome of an all-out, nuclear World War III. He answered that while he didn’t really know, he was confident that World War IV would be fought with rocks and sticks.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:59pmAn office mate taught me how to make a great blowgun using nothing more than a couple Bic pen bodies, scotch tape and a straight pin. He could hit a phone book at 50 feet with the damn thing.
Now, with a little Curare we’d really have something….
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:58pmWho am I fighting at work? If it gets that bad, wouldn’t it be best to find another job? Lol.
Report Post »subsailor
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:38pmWe must immediately ban all office supply items from all public schools because of the zero tolerance policy toward weapons! pencils and pens can poke eyes out. Paper cuts can be fatal! can you imagine the utter horror that a 3 ring binder can produce! Students in Amerika must be protected! Where oh where is Sharpton and Jackson? We must stop the use of weapons in our schools!!!!!!
(Said with tongue planted firmly in cheek)
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:16pm‘The Crimson Permanant Assurance’. (Arrr…)
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:35pmWe’re sailing on the wide accountant-sea.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:48pmAnd finally, a wafer thin mint.
Report Post »ORION3
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:01pmAye. I’m with ya. Pack up your office supplies, light the fuses on the file cabinet cannons and lets sail up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:11pmPut three hardened convicts into an office for a week and I am sure they would have an arsenal of deadier weapons!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:16pmROFL :) Thanks…
Report Post »chazmo
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:56pmoh if you only knew how true that is…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 1:11pmA collection of Japanese Swords… is good, too!
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