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27 Oct 2012
Over Door Cervical Traction Kit

This is apparently a legitimate medical thing, although they said that about trepanning in the past, too. But the fact that it’s a real medical thing will not stop me from having nightmares tonight about being tortured with this thing.
The picture sort of makes this look like a large wooden club with a huge metal blade sticking out of it. But that’s not what it is. Rather, it’s a large polypropylene club with a huge metal blade sticking out of it. Wood is too breakable. Enough said.
Non-Metallic Covert Handcuff Key

There’s (presumably) nothing illegal about owning handcuff keys. There are maybe even legitimate reasons for wanting one that was concealable. (Though, short of being a magician, I’m having a hard time thinking of any.) But a legitimate reason for needing your concealed handcuff key to be non-metallic?
The only reason I can think of for making a knife non-metallic would be (a) you need to perform surgery on someone inside of an MRI machine, or (b) you need to get your knife through a metal detector.
If I ever need surgery performed inside of an MRI machine, I’m hoping the surgeon doesn’t use a $7.08 knife from Amazon.
One comment happily proclaims that it won’t set off metal detectors. Two (though one is clearly in jest) talk about how effective it is on severing flesh.
This seems to be targeted at medical students, and the related items make it look like there are fake arms for practicing on. So this one is entirely legitimate.
But I’m still going to have nightmares tonight that, while suspended in the neck-hanger in #1, my torturist (is that a real word?) begins suturing my arm at random.
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2 Responses to Things on Amazon That Scare the Shit Out of Me
Alfred Thompson
October 27th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
The word you want is “torturer” FWIW. I think there are some properties of non-metallic knives that make them useful other than avoiding metal detectors. I’m just not sure I know what they are. :-)
Matt
October 28th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Oh yes, “torturer.” Though I still like “torturist” — it makes it sound more like a profession.
I’ve heard of people using ceramic knives in cooking, though I don’t know why they are preferable either. But I’m pretty sure that whatever those advantages are are not the same reasons that that knife advertises it’s not made out of metal.