Take a look at these.
Just ordinary pocket change, like you get from a thousand different
purchases. Or is it?
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Now take a look at this picture.
Same coins but something is significantly different.
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| WTAF! |
That’s right, the nickel has a blade. It’s a very sharp blade. It’s sold by Shomer-Tec. I got mine from a good friend, Bob.
This is one of many products you’ll see aimed at people who
travel in third world and failed countries.
In these locations kidnapping, abduction and murder are relatively
common and quite anticipated. FARC is a
perfect example. The great majority of
their funding (even revolutionaries need to be paid) came from drug running and
ransom kidnappings. Having a hidden or
non-detectable blade could be the difference between self-rescue and spending
three years with an ear cut off while your family attempts to negotiate your
release.
Think I’m blowing hot air up your skirt? Check with your friends who travel to these
countries for big companies. They have
hostage insurance and training for the traveler to look less like a target as
well as special security. Tell me again
why you think you’re safe at Cozumel?
You don’t really use this blade. It’s designed to help free yourself from cord
or zip-tie imprisonment or as a last ditch effort to escape during the initial
stage of an abduction or assault.
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| 1986 was a very very rough year as witness the coins. |
It does remind me of the devices invented by OSS and others
to help Allied prisoners-of-war to escape.
I have a plastic copy of a lapel knife worn in a sheath sewn in jacket
lapels or in coat sleeves. The originals
were metal and quite deadly.
Growing up in the 50s there were a lot of articles about
these efforts. I remember jacket buttons
that would unscrew to reveal a simple compass.
When the Nazis caught on they made them with reverse threads so it was
righty loosie, lefty tighty. Uniforms
were redesigned so simple alteration would make them resemble men’s suits and
ballpoint pens containing an ink that would dye a re-tailored uniform to typical
suit color.
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| I think you could drop this in the change bowl at any metal detector and it would pass. You have to notice the dot between In and God |
Escape tools aren’t anything new. Still, this is a very cool knife.
