The WASP Injector Knife was designed to kill in a particularly gruesome but effective way. It’s marketed as a defense against deadly sharks, wildcats, and bears. From the product site:
This weapon injects a freezing cold ball of compressed gas, approximately the size of a basketball, at 800psi nearly instantly. The effects of this injection will drop many of the world’s largest land predators. The effects of the compressed gas not only cause over-inflation during ascent when used underwater, but also freezes all tissues and organs surrounding the point of injection on land or at sea.
Watch what it can do to a watermelon.
Imagine what that would do to a human body! The first person to use this in a crime will be undoubtedly be in the headlines worldwide. The company recommends it as a weapon for military and special police use. The knives are priced at $379.95, with accessories and a higher-priced engraved wood handle knife also available.
I hope I never have to see the WASP Injector Knife used against anything other than a melon.
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Uhhh…I don’t get it. Unlike a watermelon on a table, a bear, shark, or human is not going to stand around waiting for you to inject the compressed gas.
Did you see this guy? He stabs the watermelon, then has to wait 3 seconds to get the gas explosion.
Wildcats…they might hang out. I don’t know. I’m a city boy.
posted by Fat Fred on 7-21-2008 at 9:29 am
I saw this knife in a U.K. news article a week or so ago. Britain has ridiculous knife crime right now, so they put out an article about this knife, because they’re afraid that the thugs will start carrying them. I thought it was brilliant that they showed what it looks like, how it works, where you can get it, and how much it costs, but do not take into consideration that they MIGHT be giving the baddies any ideas. Brilliant.
posted by Pearl on 7-21-2008 at 9:53 am
Seems similar to the weapon from “No Country for Old Men” (or was it “There Will Be Blood”? I can’t remember). It works well, especially because it didn’t leave any bullets to trace.
posted by Amy on 7-21-2008 at 9:54 am
My name-sister beat me to the punch! I was also thinking that it was similar to the captive bolt pistol (that’s the actual name for it. they use it to stun cattle before slaughter.) used in “No Country for Old Men”.
posted by Amy D on 7-21-2008 at 1:16 pm
interesting.
and I also want to register my unhappiness with the “new” Mental Floss Blogs rss feed format- previously the whole article opened up into my feed reader; now only the first what, 5 or 6 lines? I find myself reading far fewer of the articles because I use a feed reader to begin with because I don’t have a lot of time to open up a ton of websites every day. So now, I just don’t read the articles at all. Which is sad, since I did enjoy them. Just thought I’d say. And didn’t know where so said it here…
posted by ann on 7-21-2008 at 2:57 pm