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Posted: 11/5/2023 8:12:39 PM EDT

Imagine, if you will. That you're in a non-permissive environment. You're unarmed and you find yourself in a bad area. What are you arming yourself with and why?

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:15:52 PM EDT

[#1]

A sock and roll of quarters.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:16:39 PM EDT

[#2]

Pool cue.
Edit for spelling

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:17:03 PM EDT

[#3]

Tube sock and a guard-rail nut, duh.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:17:40 PM EDT

[#4]

The jawbone of a crackhead

A modern day samson

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:18:17 PM EDT

[#5]

Probably either a bike lock. Or a hammer of some sort.

Possibly a very well concealed Steyr M-9 depending on how non-permissive ze environment is.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:18:39 PM EDT

[#6]

Piece of pipe.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:19:12 PM EDT

[#7]

Anything rigid and long that I can get my hands on.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:19:51 PM EDT

[#8]

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Tube sock and a guard-rail nut, duh.

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Or a short aluminum baseball bat or a tire billy.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:19:57 PM EDT

[#9]

a decent sized bottle you could break makes a good cutting weapon

biker bludgeon : a lock with a bandanna wrapped through it

a belt with a hefty buckle

any stout piece of wood or piping

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:20:16 PM EDT

[#10]

Kitchen knife? If that’s not an option. Screwdriver, wrench, hammer…plenty of weapons in a tool box

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:20:26 PM EDT

[#11]

Allowed everywhere, very innocent, and easily a weapon that can kill someone.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:20:57 PM EDT

[#12]

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:23:30 PM EDT

[#13]

Visine bottles filled with gasoline and a zippo lighter. Fuck those vampires

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:23:45 PM EDT

[#14]

Gasoline and a lighter

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:25:19 PM EDT

[#15]

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Footie, crew, or knee-high?

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Crew.

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Allowed everywhere, very innocent, and easily a weapon that can kill someone.

https://www.outside.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/H/y/Hydro-Flask-Stainless-Steel-Vacuum-Insulated-Water-Bottle-32-Oz-Wide-Mouth-Flex-Cap-Lava-original-SS17_1.jpg

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Damn. That's a good option.

We have a no gun policy in the office (sucks, but that's not the point here) and little ideas like that are very discrete.

Other desk items-
Metal engineer's ruler or other substantial straight edge
Scissors (duh)
550 cord, may need to choke a MFer
Largest knife allowed by policy
Multi-Tool
Box cutter

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:25:51 PM EDT

[#16]

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~~Tube sock~~ Paracord and a guard-rail nut, duh.

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FIFY. Coloring books sold separately.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:25:57 PM EDT

[#17]

Spear, Pike, some type of pole arm.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:26:25 PM EDT

[#18]

Solid steel pen.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:26:35 PM EDT

[#19]

boner

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:26:40 PM EDT

[#20]

Got beat by 15 seconds on the last one

Death by teacup

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:26:58 PM EDT

[#21]

Table leg

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:27:28 PM EDT

[#22]

After pretty much my whole life I’m various construction trades I’m picking my trusty 22oz straight claw or maybe a half hatchet

I’m the office I’ve got a couple heavy metal tri-sided rulers, golf clubs, or a huge whitetail shed sett that could probably mess somebody up

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:28:23 PM EDT

[#23]

This is arfcom.

"I keep an inch and a half guardrail nut on a loop of 550 cord. It's not whiz-bang tactical, but one smack in the grape and it's coloring books for Christmas."

Seriously though, you can buy a small kitchen paring knife just about anywhere.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:30:42 PM EDT

[#24]

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Anything rigid and long that I can get my hands on.

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Posted: 11/5/2023 8:31:37 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/5/2023 8:32:28 PM EDT

[#26]

Millwall brick

Either version.

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Posted: 11/5/2023 8:32:59 PM EDT

[#27]

The improvised weapons I've seen most effective today is a massive selfish streak, a powerful sense of entitlement, and almost 9-years of woke public education.

For improvised weapons few beat fire applied correctly.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:33:05 PM EDT

[#28]

I made some of these and they work great.

Mine has a machined plug welded in with a machined firing pin.

The Mighty Pipe Shot Gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KptCCbTcq_o

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:34:18 PM EDT

[#29]

The front end of whatever I'm driving.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:35:30 PM EDT

[#30]

Diesel F250, if that doesn't work, 24-in Rigid pipe wrench

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:37:00 PM EDT

[#31]

Pocket sand...duh

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:39:44 PM EDT

[#32]

Board with a nail.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:40:43 PM EDT

[#33]

An armored wheelbarrow and debarked chihuahua are an unstoppable combination in many situations.

Add a suppressed Ruger 10/22 and you've covered the entire weapon spectrum pretty much.

(ole' skol K yo')

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:45:11 PM EDT

[#34]

If you plan it out ahead of time is it really improvised?

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:46:21 PM EDT

[#35]

A small tactical nuclear warhead in a tube sock.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:50:36 PM EDT

[#36]

Need more info.

I’d drag a lifeless corpse down the street if I thought it would deter people. What sort of situation is this? Visiting family, wrong turn, business, pleasure? When/where are we improvising this weapon?

Generally speaking, it would be whatever is closest to me at the time. If I’m preparing an improvised weapon on the spot odds are it’ll be a bludgeoning weapon. A shiv wouldn’t hurt to have too. Piano wire has its uses too…

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:50:48 PM EDT

[#37]

The slicing arm from a paper slicer . They are ubiquitous .

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:51:41 PM EDT

[#38]

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A sock and roll of quarters.

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This is good. Mine has always been a sock and a D battery.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:52:23 PM EDT

[#39]

pocket sand

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:52:26 PM EDT

[#40]

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The slicing arm from a paper slicer .https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/7de46d1c-a552-4ef7-b8c6-6cf94a8ec900_1.ee9416809b7c17f3932f4c6ed15ffbc4.jpeg

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This. It's a bucket list thing for me.

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:52:28 PM EDT

[#41]

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Anything rigid and long that I can get my hands on.

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A dick?

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:53:40 PM EDT

[#42]

Pencil of course.
You’re slipping GD

Posted: 11/5/2023 8:55:11 PM EDT

[#43]

A highly modified hickory stock cane (look up fighting canes), or a leather container for my parking change that looks remarkably like a sap or blackjack.