Google "Prison made zip guns". The whole "Necessity is the Mother of Invention". Similar tube and pin type devices where used in Viet Nam, placed in the ground, and called "Toe Poppers".
Paper has successfully been made into
shanks/shivs, too. More time consuming, but it is done.
My 1st ex (seriously, I should write a book this is getting so ridiculous) was shanked down in Florence in the late 70's. He was in the mess hall eating and an inmate from the AB (Aryan Brotherhood) came up behind. He doesn't know where the intended target was, it went in through his upper cheek, deflected off his cheek bone, coursed downward, and exited below his inner jaw bone on that same side.
We had a roomate who had done time in Huntsville, Texas, who ended up in Florence. He found Jesus (seems to be the best place to find him) after a few years, and decided to leave the AB, they put a hit on him, he repeatedly told the guards who didn't do anything, and he lost his eye to a zip gun. He sued ADOC and walked out of Florence with a very large chunk of change.
The 6 years I was married to the 1st ex, in which he was not in a correctional facility, rehab, or jail, was somewhere around 3 years, was probably the experiences of 3 lifetimes. :facepalm: 2 of those 6 years I was trying to divorce him. :banghead:
The google cache was a real 'duh' moment for me. lol
