What's Your Weirdest Weapon?
Thursday, September 14th, 2006 - 2:45pm
I just ordered an 8' practice halberd and it got me thinking about all you other weapon masters. What's the weirdest weapon you have in your home?
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Unless you're counting boffer weapons that I use to LARP with, just a pair of cheap escrima sticks.
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Real weaponry, the weirdest thing I have (somewhere) are a pair of practice nunchakus. Faux weaponry, there's a LARP frypan weapon somewhere in the menagerie.
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A Cricket Bat. A Newbery Five-Star Series I.
Not designed as a weapon, and I would hate to break it over some thug's skull, but I would. Oh, I would.
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Is that halberd suitable for home defense?
I have a .50 cal Hawken replica, and a compound bow. Also, a labrador retriever that will lick you to death. Some babyfood that has been congealing in the back of the fridge for about 4 months now. A full set of croquet mallets. And a weedeater.
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At 8', I think I'd have a hard time in the hallways. I'm also getting second leather halberd head to put on a 6' staff I already own.
I don't want to get into the 'home defense' thang. We've beat that to death a few times already.
The Hawken sounds cool. I'd like to pick up a black powder shooter someday. I have two goldens that would also lick an intruder to death. But we just recently got a 3rd dog, a German shepard rotweiler mix that would de-nut an intruder in New York minute.
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I have Japanese wakizashi within reach under my bed, just in case a ninja jumps through my window.
My wife though bought this huge decorative key from Potterybarn. Its maybe 18 inches long with one side all rounded like those old-style turn keys, pig-iron I suppose all painted black. If you hold it from the key side, its basically a medieval mace with huge crushing power. From the first time I grabbed it the first thought in my mind was, this is a weapon.
Here it is:
If my house were invaded i'd probably grab that first. I leave it hanging from one of the upper arms of the coat rack, in our entry hallway, just so its ready. Looks nice too.
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It's a heck of a dogfighter.
Irongut, that will only work as a weapon if you have Goofy and Donald to back you up.
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What? You've heard me on XBOX live and figured out I'm really Mickey.... damn.
You asked for wierdest, I think I delivered. It does have crushing power I swear. Light too.
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It's a beauty. My father-in-law put it together from a kit about 20 years ago, and I fell in love with it the instant I saw it. I'd wanted a Hawken ever since I saw Jeremiah Johnson when I was a boy.
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Not quite...
O.o
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Oh Kingdom Hearts, I gotta pick that up one day. I know its really popular.
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Whoa, Dude! You're creepin' me out. That movie was my inspiration also.
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(or something close to that)
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I have a siege weapon. A trebuchet... made out of Legos... very small.
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I have a .455 Webley which almost counts as weird. Other than that, I'm going to have to go with either my CRKT bear claw or my Cold Steel safe keeper.
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a 50lb Bassethound that will lick you to death.. then sit on your lap until your leg falls asleep!
deadly.
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GameGuru also has a 40-man security staff and automated sentry guns... but don't we all?
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Mercury's been in retrograde most of the week. It's like a full moon with a side of kicked-in-the-nuts. -- H.P. Lovesauce
I have a pretty decent crossbow - medievel replica, steel spring, made by a guy I used to know in the SCA. I keep it unstrung in the basement, so it's not like I'm gonna be using it on any home invaders. Heck of a lot of fun to use.
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Besides the occasional pistol lying around I have a Masai Warrior's knife a friend brought me from Kenya, apparently it was tempered in lion's blood.
And a 15yr old Golden Retriever that'll attack you... assuming you're trying to deliver the mail or a package, everyone else gets free reign.
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In terms of LARP weapons, I got Rubb's frying pan beat. We're currently building LARP-vegetables for a friend of ours who plays a cook character.
In terms of real-life weapons... My keyring and a broom handle.
And if I haven't seen further, it's because those bloody giants blocked my sight.
I generally stick with guns & knives; but I do have an ASP and this:
I took it off a kid who intended to stick me with it. I originally only held onto it because the triangular blade and soldered wire wrapping caught my attention. Now I keep it as a reminder to remain vigilant.
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I worry about projectile vomit and bears.
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"In other news, Miyamoto pissed on my head, and gave me a forecast of rain." - *Le
I don't have any weird weapons right now but I wan't to buy a 48" aluminum pipe wrench.
*I don't know these people, just a pic I found
I used to use these when I worked with drillers and was impressed by their surreal sizes. These, compared to regular pipe wrenches make me think of of the size of jrpg swords compared to real ones.
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