Those are Big City things, Reeves. We saw a taxi on our
street, it meant
someone's car didn't work. Apartments were all side by side,
as far as I
knew.
I was trying to keep it sort of criminal, potential for
misfiring, maiming,
that sort of thing, since I don't have zip gun or real jd
experiences . In
my circle, the main bad thing was to disrupt school and get
away with it:
sulfur bombs ("Molelite") with cigarette fuses in the air
vents, finely
ground cap powder ("Atom Pearls") under the lecturn that
would explode (cap
gun power) when the teacher leaned on it, that sort of thing.
Dumb stuff.
In response to someone's suggestion, I offer the clothespin
match shooter
to anyone who wants it, for fictional purposes. Actually, now
that I
remember, it involves one half a two-stick clothespin and its
spring with
the one stick set inside a one-piece (two pronged)
clothespin. (The spring
was both trigger and match striker.) It was a nice
device.
>And BTW, just to keep this on topic, do such devices
feature in any hb
fiction? (ED)
I was afraid that someone would bring in Relevance.
Put it this way: every once in awhile, someone in the list,
in effect,
calls for an examination of our hard-boiled credentials,
right? Zip guns.
At which point, all I can do is feel deprived. To my shame, I
lived in the
suburbs.
Bill Hagen
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