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You could possibly get enough risen in a HP to kill a shark.
Killing a rubber shark is extra tricky though. |
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From what I have heard, during the making of the movie, keeping the rubber shark (Bruce) "alive" was the tough part.
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It's a movie...the need for drama and tension trump facts. I recall some movie where the hero sealed nitro glycerin in his bullets making explosive bullets. If anyone wants to try that at home let me know how it goes. tipoc |
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How much poison it would take to impress or anybody or anything? Requires 1.5 mg/kg body weight. Not likely to get 1.5 mg in any HP. That's a milligram. 1.5 thousands of a gram or .00005 ounce. One gram = .0353 oz.
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Believe the mercury thing was done by Robert Ginty's character in The Exterminator. Shot some pedophile in the stuff with one. At the time, I didn't really know what for, other than mercury's poison properties, maybe thinking he would die no matter where he was shot?
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If I remember the movie correctly, he was sealing in some kind of poison on the hollow points.
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At any rate the idea was no goofier than sealing in glycerin, mercury or poison into a bullet with wax. Or trying to seal it in at all. Or maybe equally goofy. If it worked on any level it would have been sold commercially 60 years ago. Now a shot gun shell? What flick was that where the hero loaded the shotgun shells with quarters? One of the Mila Jovovich ones. Raccoon City, in a prison or something. She shoots monsters with about 4 bucks worth of quarters a pop. Steel washers wern't dramatic enough...had to be quarters. tipoc |
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