How does one make a shank?

Depends on how spacious your butthole is

seen a guy make one out of a plastic coffee lid, lighter and toilet water. in less then a minute it was a weapon

Hit it off the hozzle.

Concrete. You can also open a can with concrete in a pinch

Nice. Thanks man.

You posting from jail?

Any piece of metal will do.

A spoon filed down. A piece of a bed frame. The metal part of a number 2 pencil that holds the eraser.

You take that metal piece and file it down to a point.

Then you roll paper really tight, wet it, compact it, let it dry, and then add more layers in the same manner.

During my residency, I removed multiple shanks.

The ingenuity was quite amazing

True story:

A prisoner was life-flighted to us in critical condition.

We removed a shank from his chest. Said shank passed directly through a tattoo of praying hands with "Romans 3:16" written under it.

I thought to myself, wow this dumbass manage to screw up THE most important verse in the New Testament. Obviously the he meant to get a JOHN 3:16 tat...

Nope. Looked up the verse later: Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery mark their path

Touche Mr Prisoner. Touche

And here's the real kicker:

He had already lost a ton of blood and one lung was down for a while by the time he got to us. We operated on him for a couple of hours.

He was in the ICU for weeks and hospitalized for a few months to recover from hypovolemic shock (ischemic bowel, ARI, and MI). After several million dollars in treatment, that man walked out of the hospital on his own 2 feet...


I later learned that man was on death row. Less than a year after we saved his life, the state of Texas--WHO HAD PAYED FOR HIS TREATMENT--sent him to his maker.

You can make them from paper. NatGeo magazine paper is the gold standard. Twist it up right and it's as good as metal.