Surreptitious Weapon Looks Like A Cell Phone: New Airline Security Threat

wnbc.com ^ | June 27, 2002

[kinghorse]

You wanna volunteer to prove your point?

[Bogey78O]

Not leave a red mark? That's enough to break through the skin. All they need really.

[Denver Ditdat]

"I saw people with these little wands scanning the forehead of a bald man,"

Checking for thought crimes, obviously.

[Cindy]

GOOGLE SEARCH: "PHONE HEIST" (Note: It is interesting to read some of the articles describing large quantities of cell phones which have been stolen.)

[goldstategop]

LOL! How about a cell phone bomb.

[tomkat]

assuming the 'antenna' functions as the barrel,
how do four inline shells fire without ejection/cycling ?

[robertpaulsen]

I agree. Something's not right.

[scholar]

LOL! How about a cell phone bomb.


You just nailed my question. I recently read two books--fiction, okay. But they each had a scenario where a cell phone loaded with C4 was remotely detonated when a call was answered.

Is this plausible?

[MissAmericanPie]

ewwwww, lol.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Agree. 10 ft/sec is about 66 MPH. Not enough to even leave a red mark. <<<

About is a wonderful qualifier ....and appropriate here!

88 ft/sec is exactly 60 miles/hour!

10 ft/sec is about 6.818181 miles/hour.

[browardchad]

From the first link in Post #22:

The mobile phone gun looks exactly the same as a normal mobile phone, with a keypad, liquid crystal display and aerial.

Inside, however, rather than wires, it contains a rudimentay spring-wound percussion mechanism which allows four .22 calibre bullets to be fired in quick succession from openings in the top the phone, each bullet being triggered by pushing a button on the keypad.

Although the gun-phones are more than capable of killing, their one drawback is that they are extremely inaccurate. "It's really very simple technology," says Gander. "Almost as soon as the bullet leaves the muzzle it becomes unstable, making it accurate only up to a couple of metres at the most. "Basically you'd have to go right up to your target and practically press the gun right against them for it to be effective."