‘MacGyver’ geezer makes ‘SHOTGUN, GRENADE’ from airport shop tat

Hobby project brings visit from the Feds

By  Iain Thomson,     26th November 2013
Take a look below.
Subtle, no? Booth’s videos show that you can at least get a big bang from materialsVid Application developer and part-time security researcher Evan Booth has produced a series of videos showing how an array of apparently deadly weapons can be MacGyver’d from stuff on sale in airport shops.

His inventions can be built from things bought after walking through the usual security checks; we’re told they include a remote-controlled suitcase bomb made using a child’s toy, a Zippo lighter and cans of Axe body spray; a potentially lethal set of nunchucks; a club capable of smashing apart a coconut; and a fragmentation grenade that he assembled in less than eight minutes.

“If we’re trying stop a terrorist threat at the airport it’s already too late,” Booth told Fast Company, saying he started the Terminal Cornucopia project after the introduction of nudie body scanners at US airports.

“It just seemed so invasive and really expensive. And if you’re going to go through all that trouble getting into the terminal, why is all this stuff available in the terminal?”

One of his most worrying creations is a blunderbuss-like, breech-loaded shotgun-ish weapon capable of firing $1.33 in coins through fiberboard. The device is just as dangerous to the user as to what’s in front of the muzzle, but when did that thinking stop a jihadi? Take a look below.

Read More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/26/madcap_macgyver_builds_shotgun_grenade_from_airport_shop_parts/



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