Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/25/how-to-boil-water-in-prison.html
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Also works to cook hot dogs …and make pickles glow. and/or what moıst materials present roughly 100 ohms of resistance? (or roughly twice that for the lands of 230vAC) (next up on Don’t Do This!: drano and aluminum foil make a happy 'spolsive hydrogen floaty balloon)
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ex-jewel thief
When do we decide to include that label?
In this case, do you have to make a conscious decision to stop stealing jewels? Would being incarcerated (and physically unable to continue stealing) be enough to justify the “ex” on its own?
Can you ever be an ex-murderer or are you always still a murderer, even if you never kill again?
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was doing this as a student in cheap hotel rooms to boil water for coffee. A couple of double edge razor blades, a plastic button and some thread, a wire, and 220V AC - a cup of water boils in 7 seconds. Then you can use a few of the copper strands from your power cable to patch the blown fuse. 
Applied electrical engineering FTW.
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an electrical code
I think that’s electrical cord, because it sure isn’t according to the electrical code!
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Does he wear a shirt with his own quote on it?
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yes.
Cooking in a metal paint can, with no ground and lots of conductive water in a place where the breakers are heavily abused…yeah that’s not going to blow up in someones face eventually.
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Would you prefer “recovering jewel thief?”
I think the difference is “jewel thief” is a vocation and “murderer” is not. So you can be a “former hitman” but not a “former murderer.”
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Wait, I thought everyone did that! Next you are gunna suggest cutting the arms of a shirt is not the coolest?
Isn’t it?
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I think the “but you fuck one goat” rule applies here.
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Don’t fuck it up.
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Come on, I am not a crazy person!
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True, here and now. But 30 years ago they were much more expensive and I had much less money to spend on things for occasional use, and the stores back in the old country weren’t stocked nearly as well as they are now.
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I like this guy alright.
I’ve used home electroplating (an end stripped electrical chord and a small piece of foil)
to make art.
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It’s a plastic bucket, I think, if that makes any difference?
At about 10:45
Not that that makes the whole thing safe, of course.
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This is a very christian attitude; that “sin”, once committed, is a permanent state.
