packaging as content

March 11, 2009

Bleach Bottle Gun Silencer

As mentioned here in the past: in the wrong hands, packaging can be weaponry. Still, it’s a surprising form of upcycling.

The gunman who killed a man in front of his estranged wife and their 4-year-old daughter used a crude silencer made of a plastic bleach bottle wrapped in duct tape as he opened fire in a Queens playground, the authorities said yesterday…

Over the years, law enforcement authorities have encountered various types of homemade silencers, often using plastic soda bottles, towels or pillows as mufflers. In this case, it was a plastic bleach container covered entirely in gray duct tape.

This story is in the news here again because the estranged wife and her cousin were just convicted of the murder. (Read all about it: here)

Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

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