One of the things I'll always remember from my work with the various penal institutions was all the "tools" that had been collected.
Freaking amazing ingenuity, I tell you what. People are, at heart, crazy smart. -- Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Adam wrote: > I wish I could take credit, but the advice to use cereal boxes actually came > from a friend of David's who had smuggled magazines into Iraq for an Army > friend. I enhanced it a bit by snugging the plastic wrappers around the > magazines using tape, securing them to the insides (one each for the front > and back) using double-sided tape so they wouldn't shake around (the > inertial "clunks" would have given them away), and deflating the cereal bag > through a pinhole and then taping the hole (to keep your cereal fresh) to > make enough room without bulging the sides and giving everything away. > > As far as prison goes, no. If I had, I wouldn't have been issued a > concealed carry permit or an ATF Form 4 Waiver. But I did learn quite a bit > from those who have: everything from how to cook and make decent hot > chocolate in your cell to hiding various things in a room -- and, of course, > field expedient weaponry. But the most impressive thing I've ever seen done > was to create -- without being seen -- a complete Sten submachine gun, > complete with blueing. This was a real working Sten, magazine and all, > hardened steel bolt, the works. They finally found it in his cell. I would > have given him a medal. > > Remember that a big part of the M1 Carbine was designed exactly in the same > way, by a convict doing it secretly in metal shop without the bulls knowing > about it. > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > President > Productivity Enhancement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:274750 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
