5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy. We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism.
After all, could one commando really take out a whole compound full of bad guys? Actually, yes. It turns out the history books are full of stories of soldiers doing things so badass they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism. The 6 Coolest Things Said by Soldiers Before Killing People. War is serious.
War is dark, violent and terrible, and it will likely be the end of our species someday. It's a cliche, but some cliches are there for a reason: War is hell. Or a hell of a lot of fun, depending on who you ask. Like these guys, who liked to talk trash at global death-orgies like they were pickup basketball games at the park. #6. Photos.com The Situation: Vice Admiral William Halsey Jr. was so primed for world war that he offered to start one himself if he didn't get it for Christmas. Via Wikimedia Commons"Hell, and large parts of California. " 7 Awesomely Insane Guns People Actually Used. #3.
Harmonica Guns Horst Held Antique Firearms The 19th century lunatic musician had a tough choice to make: play an instrument, or shoot folks in the face. Now, it used to be that you had to play the people a nice harmonica solo first and then riddle them with bullets while they were clapping, but no longer! These are "harmonica guns. " Horst Held Antique FirearmsSo named for their popularity with hobos. Horst Held Antique Firearms Well, OK, technically they weren't functional harmonicas -- it's just that their loading mechanisms somewhat resembled the instruments, as opposed to the rotating cylinders or clips we all know and love and do murders with today. Oh, and aside from appearance, there's another similarity between harmonica guns and musical instruments: If you move or place your fingers wrong, you'll produce an extremely unpleasant noise.
The Price of Freedom: American's At WarYeah, it's cool. The 9 Most Hilariously Irresponsible Old-Timey Weapons. In the early days of crime fighting, people didn't quite know how to act.
Westerns and gangster movies suggest that cops and robbers have always just pointed their guns and shouted "Freeze! " But it turns out that fighting real-life crime back in the day was more like a James Bond movie, if Q designed the weapons while drunk. For instance ... #9. Machine Gun Vest (1929) Popular Science What looks like an early prototype of Tony Stark's arc light reactor is actually a vest that, when the strings are pulled, causes your bow tie to spin around and whistle .... oh sorry, that's the other string-operated novelty vest. It's easy to imagine the scenario that Samuel Schwarz had in mind while designing the Vest Machine Gun. The 5 Most Terrifying Sci-Fi Upgrades to Deadly Weapons. As long as humans exist, we will probably need weapons, and as long as we have weapons, we will be looking for ways to upgrade them to new, awesome, horrible levels.
We do not necessarily approve of the use or even the manufacture of any of the following devices; we only feel a duty to alert you to their existence. Because they're insane. #5. The Electroshock Cyborg Fist Wired.co.uk No matter how many weapons have been created and refined over time, the first and often last weapon available to you is comprised of your very own balled hands. Sure, there are all sorts of gloves and knuckledusters to protect delicate hands and/or increase punching power. The Insane Upgrade Tom's GuideIncredibly, it isn't the hat. Say hello to the BodyGuard, simultaneously the most awesome and irresponsible self-defense weapon in the history of everything.
Brown has equipped the glove with a high-powered stun gun, for the sole reason of allowing you to electro-punch shit. Oh yes. . #4. 7 Items You Won't Believe Are Actually Legal. Drugs, artillery emplacements, napalm, prostitution - sometimes it seems like the best things in life are illegal.
For some reason, the fascists who control this country don't believe in your God given right to smoke meth and man a 155-millimeter Howitzer. Luckily for us, there are a lot of awesome things out there that Uncle Sam amazingly hasn't taken away from us yet. The 5 Most Insane Duels Ever Fought. Forget about all of your fancy "lawsuits" and "mediators.
" A couple of hundred years ago, the proper method to resolve any dispute was to stand a few feet apart and shoot at each other until somebody died. It was a more civilized time. But duelers were kind of like extreme sports enthusiasts: They insisted on always taking an already-insane practice to the next level. That's how we wound up with ... #5. Photos.com An astonishing number of stories that end with somebody going home full of bullets begin with two men, one woman and some kind of compromising position involving genital contact.