Things I notice

[cheerful_deviant]

Question...

Yesterday I stopped at Wal-Mart, (I personally hate that store, but it was on my way home) and noticed as I walked past the sporting goods that they no longer have the knives out on display in a glass case. They now have a sheet of cardboard with pictures of the knives on it inside the glass case. I presume that this is so no one can break open the case and use a knife to rob the store.

But directly behind the knife case is another glass case with shotguns and rifles in it!

And 2 isles down I can buy an axe that's not in any kind of case at all.

Does this make sence to anyone?

 

[destinie21]

Now it would be harder to steal the knives and fire arms and also to get them if you're underaged you now have to show Id for the cases to be opened wheas before you needed ID to purchase it (supposedly, but we all know the dazed 16 y/o behind the counter can barely be bothered with eye contact let alone verbal interaction)

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I think you should stay out of the hardware section too, nut's can stab you with a screwdriver, and don't forget, pens and pencils are weapons in the wrong hand.

I have to stop watching those crime shows.

 

[Liar]

I'll bet the shotguns weren't loaded, and that ammo is OTC?

The really interresting thing is that they have cardboard pictures of knives inside a glass case. What are they afraid of, papercuts?!

 

[MlledeLaPlumeBleu]

Heeeeey, my mom was talking about a really great new way to kill people the other day!

It's called "white death". Assuming it's winter and there's snow around, you cold-cock someone
and shove snow down their throat. They suffocate, the snow melts, there's no evidence,
and bob's your uncle!

And snow is free!

mlle

 

[Guest]

Mlle., you called to mind for me a fave episode of the old Hitchcock TV show. A woman kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, then cooks it. The police question her as she feeds them the lamb.

Trova

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Mlle., you called to mind for me a fave episode of the old Hitchcock TV show. A woman kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, then cooks it. The police question her as she feeds them the lamb.

Trova

LOL, I was telling someone about the episode the other day, the woman was Barbara Bel Geddes wasn't it?

 

[Guest]

You're so cool, Abby. Yes, it was BBG. P.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

You're so cool, Abby. Yes, it was BBG. P.

You're pretty damn cool too , P

 

[RavenSpirit2k4]

Wow, I remember that ep. I was like "whoa, that's a hell of a way to kill someone and not get caught."

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Wow, I remember that ep. I was like "whoa, that's a hell of a way to kill someone and not get caught."

Icicles are good too!

 

[gauchecritic]

Hmm, close but I'm sure Columbo would find you out before the second page and spend the rest of the screenplay saying "Just one more thing..." as he tries to make you confess.

Asphyxiation is still asphsyxiation, your foot prints are all over the snow and the very unique gold ring you wear made a very distinctive impression on his or her jaw.

Besides which your fingerprints would be all over the water in his or her lungs.

Gauche

 

[Guest]

Gauche, put your trenchcoat away (or flash us).

Perdita

 

[Clare Quilty]

Hmm, close but I'm sure Columbo would find you out before the second page and spend the rest of the screenplay saying "Just one more thing..." as he tries to make you confess...

All in all, I'd rather take my chances with Columbo than with Quincy.

 

[rgraham666]

And then there's fishing line. Lot's of fun things you can do with fishing line.

Quick hint: If you're using a garrotte (made out of fishing line) dip it in olive oil and then diamond dust. It will then sever the carotid and jugular rather than squeezing them off.

Also be careful in the magazine section. A rolled up magazine is denser and heavier than a wood baton the same size. National Geographic rolls nicely, but is shorter than I prefer. Penthouse is the right length and weight but it's rolling qualities are inferior.

Actually CV, axes are piss poor hand to hand weapons. Unless designed for it, they're badly balanced. And they're slashing rather than stabbing weapons. This means attacks made by them are slow and easy to block or dodge. They do cause more damage if they do strike. Blade moving fast and more weight behind the edge. One half mass times velocity squared and all that.

 

[cantdog]

It's porno pics are frequently inferior, too.

 

[rgraham666]

Their stories could often use a lot of work too.

 

[cantdog]

To get back to the point of all this. I bet they've had more problems with random knife nuts making the staff nervous than they have had with random camping axe nuts, so that they see it as a bigger risk than the axes.

The cardboard thing is a bit stupid. But it's always nice and clean in there.

 

[Guest]

rg: olive oil and diamond dust? You are worrying me. P.

 

[rgraham666]

I scare myself sometimes P.

 

[SeaCat]

Personally I prefer the old Glycol in the fruit juice. Both legal, and the evidence is easy to ditch. A much more elegant, yet harder to creat one is the death by sales. You have to have the person trip in front of a crazed mob barging in for the sale of a lifetime, they will be trampled to death with no one the wiser.

Cat

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

On the subject of noticing things, why is it the underage clerks at the market cannot scan beer or tobacco produts because they are underage but they can take your money for the items after an of age clerk comes to scan it for them.
Isn't the actual act of taking the money more like selling it than scanning it is?


Wicked

 

[cantdog]

Damn, I was just grooving on the How To Kill thread!

Absurdities of retail, I suppose, is the place we should be at. Pity.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Damn, I was just grooving on the How To Kill thread!

Absurdities of retail, I suppose, is the place we should be at. Pity.

I don't think CD would mind a murder thread, I've picked up a few tips.

 

[matriarch]

I don't think CD would mind a murder thread, I've picked up a few tips.

For........????????????????????

*worried, looking over my shoulder constantly*.