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* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'': Oneof the punishments the prisoners devised is filling a hankerchief with gravel, rolling it up, and flogging the victim with it. Benedetto is almost a victim of it until he gives the Secrethandshake that shows him to be part of the criminal underground, and he's left alone afterwards.
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* ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'': The Princess creates one of these to use as a makeshift hammer by taking a [[ChestMonster demon shaped like a large diamond]] and wrapping it up in a bedsheet.
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* ''Fanfic/AWandForSkitter'': Taylor puts a handful of galleons in a sock. [[spoiler: She winds up using it on her first night in the dorm room.]]
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* Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Stormy Weather'' features Ira Jackson, a [[TheMafia mob goon]] who is specifically prohibited from carrying a firearm, but prefers the ''"more personal touch afforded by crowbars, [[BatterUp aluminum softball bats]], nunchaku sticks, piano wire, cutlery, or gym socks filled with lead fishing sinkers."''
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* Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Stormy Weather'' features Ira Jackson, a [[TheMafia mob goon]] who is specifically prohibited from carrying a firearm, but prefers the ''" more personal touch afforded by crowbars, [[BatterUp aluminum softball bats]], nunchaku sticks, piano wire, cutlery, or gym socks filled with lead fishing sinkers."''
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* Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Stormy Weather'' features Ira Jackson, a [[TheMafia mob goon]] who is specifically prohibited from carrying a firearm, but prefers the ''" more ''"more personal touch afforded by crowbars, [[BatterUp aluminum softball bats]], nunchaku sticks, piano wire, cutlery, or gym socks filled with lead fishing sinkers."''
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* Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Stormy Weather'' features Ira Jackson, a [[TheMafia mob goon]] who is specifically prohibited from carrying a firearm, but prefers the ''" more personal touch afforded by crowbars, [[BatterUp aluminum softball bats]], nunchaku sticks, piano wire, cutlery, or gym socks filled with lead fishing sinkers."''
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Fearmonium}}'', Max describes, in painful detail, how his [[AbusiveParents stepfather]] regularly beats his mother with a soap bar in a sock. It's so the bruises don't show.
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* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'': "Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but [[YourMom I pulled my back out humping your mom last night]]. [[VerbalTic Nootch]]. Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie-Berzerk style, and knock out the fuckin' pin and bickety bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show." \\
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* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'': Jay advises, "Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but [[YourMom I pulled my back out humping your mom last night]]. [[VerbalTic Nootch]]. Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie-Berzerk style, and knock out the fuckin' pin and bickety bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show.quarters." \\
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* A variation in ''Film/BadBoys1983''. Mick uses a pillowcase loaded with soda cans to dish out a vicious beating to two other juvenile inmates.
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* A variation is used in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''Hare Trimmed''. In response to being hit with a glove by Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny takes his own glove, puts a brick in it, and hits Sam with it. When he empties the glove, the brick is completely crumbled.
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* A variation is used in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''Hare Trimmed''."Hare Trimmed". In response to being hit with a glove by Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny takes his own glove, puts a brick in it, and hits Sam with it. When he empties the glove, the brick is completely crumbled.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': After Meg gets out of prison, [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] and her friends are teasing her in the school cafeteria. Meg ignores them and buys a bunch of soda cans from a vending machine. She loads them into a bag, and uses the bag on the group BatterUp style.
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** After Meg gets out of prison, [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] and her friends are teasing her in the school cafeteria. Meg ignores them and buys a bunch of soda cans from a vending machine. She loads them into a bag, and uses the bag on the group BatterUp style.
** After Meg gets out of prison, [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] and her friends are teasing her in the school cafeteria. Meg ignores them and buys a bunch of soda cans from a vending machine. She loads them into a bag, and uses the bag on the group BatterUp style.
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** One episode ends on a fake montage of every instance in the shows history were Peter Griffin got hit in the crotch with a bag od nickles. In particualr, Meg hits him so hard the bag bursts.
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* In ''Film/StarredUp'', the thug who jumps Eric in the showers hits him with a billiard ball in a sock, and then tries to strangle him with the sock.
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** ''Literature/ParkerPyneInvestigates'': In "The Gate of Baghdad", the killer attempts to make it look like the murder victim had been coshed with a sock full of sand by planting damp sand in the spare socks carried by one of the other passengers.
** ''[[Literature/HerculePoirot Hickory Dickory Dock]]'': The final murder of the book is committed with a paperweight in a sock.
** ''Literature/ParkerPyneInvestigates'': In "The Gate of Baghdad", the killer attempts to make it look like the murder victim had been coshed with a sock full of sand by planting damp sand in the spare socks carried by one of the other passengers.
** ''[[Literature/HerculePoirot Hickory Dickory Dock]]'': The final murder of the book is committed with a paperweight in a sock.
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When a character uses a sock with a heavy object inside it as an improvised [[EpicFlail flail]]. The most commonly used items in fiction are [[MoneyMauling coins (preferably rolled)]], bars of soap, and [[BadGuysPlayPool pool balls]]. With coins, the most commonly used are nickels and quarters. Five dollars worth of nickels has the same mass as three baseballs, so it's easy to imagine the damage one of these weapons can do if swung fast enough.
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When a character uses a sock with a heavy object inside it as an improvised [[EpicFlail flail]]. The most commonly used items in fiction are [[MoneyMauling coins (preferably rolled)]], bars of soap, and [[BadGuysPlayPool pool balls]]. With coins, the most commonly used are nickels and quarters. Five dollars worth of nickels has the same mass as three baseballs, so it's easy to imagine the damage one of these weapons can do if swung fast enough.\n
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*A notorious weapon in prison is the lock in a sock. Notorious Boston monster Whitey Bulger fell victim to this in 2018.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his weapon should be a sack full of door knobs (a news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his weapon should be a sack full of door knobs knobs, with the caveat that he has to supply his own doorknobs (a news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted).
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3885086/ Almost a Squib]]'': Since Harry can't easily cast spells, he typically carries a miniature crossbow as a backup, with a half-brick-in-a-sock cosh as a ''second'' backup. [[spoiler:At various times, he uses the cosh to take down Remus Lupin, Viktor Krum, and Peter Pettigrew.]]
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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3885086/ Almost a Squib]]'': Since Harry can't easily cast spells, he typically carries a miniature crossbow as a backup, with a half-brick-in-a-sock cosh as a ''second'' backup. [[spoiler:At various times, he uses the cosh to take down Remus Lupin, Viktor Krum, and Peter Pettigrew.]]
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* ''Series/ReservationDogs'': Referred to euphemistically as "soaping," a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of one of Cheese's roommates is his wake-up on his first morning in the group home. Though the beating occurs off-screen, the weapons are understood to be bar soap in socks.
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* If [[http://www.google.com/patents?id=UhANAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false US Patent 6,641,059]] is to be believed, protecting sprinker heads from such weapons is SeriousBusiness
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* If [[http://www.google.com/patents?id=UhANAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false US Patent 6,641,059]] is to be believed, protecting sprinker sprinkler heads from such weapons is SeriousBusiness
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* In ''Series/NineteenTwentyThree'', Teonna Rainwater loads two Bibles in a pillowcase and uses them to bludgeon a nun who had been constantly abusing her to near death. She finishes the job by smothering her.
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* ''Film/OldPeople'': When the Old Guy enters the cabin Sanna and Malick are in, he screws a ball off of what looks like an old bed post and puts it in his sock. He uses it to kill Malick and knock Sanna down the stairs.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his WeaponOfChoice should be sack full of door knobs (a news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his WeaponOfChoice weapon should be a sack full of door knobs (a news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted).
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* ''Series/Enlisted''; Sergeant Perez mentions her uncle was killed by someone swinging a bag full of door knobs. Or was it oranges? His corpse was sticky.
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* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' has an item for the Boots slot called A Knotted Sock with a Heavy Lump in It. Its description points you (the wearer) to an urchin who can teach you how to swing it "to enable the greatest wallop with the least effort".
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* In ''Literature/MrMercedes'' and following works in that trilogy, Hodges has the "Happy Slapper", which is a sock that has the foot part filled with ball bearings.
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* In ''Literature/MrMercedes'' and following works in that trilogy, Hodges has the "Happy Slapper", which is a sock that has the foot part filled with ball bearings. It's said to not ''technically'' be a weapon, as far as the law is concerned.
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* In ''Film/TheHeist'', Neil defends himself against the thugs who jump him in prison with a bar of soap inside a sock.
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* In ''Film/TheHeist'', ''Film/TheHeist1989'', Neil defends himself against the thugs who jump him in prison with a bar of soap inside a sock.