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Fighting with keys--how would it work?
arianne:
--- Quote from: Shecky on March 23, 2011, 05:53:51 PM ---Two questions:
1) Was it a milk carton or a milk jug? Makes a difference.
2) How many keys were on the ring? Also makes a difference.
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1) It was a milk carton. Not a very thick milk carton either.
2) Perhaps six or seven--not heavy keys, just normal office keys.
Somehow it's depressing to realize that 30 seconds of badly-shot-cell-phone video of people fighting on the street can take pages and pages of description to convey...and even then there willl be readers who'll take the cell phone vid over your blood and sweat :'(
OZ:
In a serious fight LL had the best advice. Run and hope you can catch them one at a time. Keys are going to be most effective to take out one fighter before they realise that you are using them or to use as a distraction. If they are on a chain ( common with bike or motorcycle riders as well as janitors and such) they can be swung like a mini spiked flail at someone's eyes or face and do some damage although again this is a trick that you will probably only get away with once.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: arianne on March 24, 2011, 06:39:37 AM ---1) It was a milk carton. Not a very thick milk carton either.
2) Perhaps six or seven--not heavy keys, just normal office keys.
Somehow it's depressing to realize that 30 seconds of badly-shot-cell-phone video of people fighting on the street can take pages and pages of description to convey...and even then there willl be readers who'll take the cell phone vid over your blood and sweat :'(
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I tried the same thing about 30 years ago. I finally realized, after experiencing the same non-event that you saw, that in order for it to be more accurate, the carton must be backed up against something unmoving in order to replicate the conditions of the human face (because the head doesn't just skitter off at the slightest contact). I would've done it with milk in the carton, but my mother would've killed me. :D And yeah, it did work. Nothing spectacular, just a few little holes - which would've been nasty in the case of eyelids and eyes.
Mickey Finn:
The rocket propelled chainsaw is AWESOME.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
It's easier to get a good swing if you use the whole keyboard.
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