1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Please, don't try anything that you're about to see us do at home. Ever! 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 You can't keep me in here, copper! I'm gonna get out! 3 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,000 And while they slug it out, Tori Grant and Carrie knock them back. 4 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 That's terrible, they're drunk. 5 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 As they get the measure of some more vodka myths. 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Can I get a little privacy? Cheese! 7 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Who are the Mythbusters? 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Adam Savage 9 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Jamie Heineman 10 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Aren't Tracer rounds illegal? 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Tori Balachy 12 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Science is fun. 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 Carrie Byron 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Guess what I did today? 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 And Grant Imajara 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,000 You guys ready for this? 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Between them over 50 years of special effects experience. 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 That's what I'm talking about! 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 They don't just tell the myth. 20 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 They put them to the test. 21 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 This one straight from the fan site. 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,000 And I am indebted to the fan site. This is an awesome myth. 23 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,000 The story goes that at the federal supermax prison in Marion, Illinois, 24 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,000 an inmate fashioned a crude crossbow using only newspaper, 25 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 parts of his food tray for the tip, 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 and the elastic from his underpants as a bow string. 27 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,000 And he's able to use this crossbow to shoot and kill a fellow inmate from across a hall. 28 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 I like this myth too. I've always had a fascination with crossbows. 29 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 I've had this one since I was a teenager. 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 That's why there are no cats left in the neighborhood. 31 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 I can just see why thank you, Father. 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,000 At any rate, the first thing we need to do is find a list of the kinds of things 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 that inmates actually have access to. 34 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Because there are limitations, I'm sure. 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Absolutely. 36 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Before they get rocking with this jailhouse myth, 37 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 they want to see if it's even feasible. 38 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 So Adam volunteers to spend a day behind the wire 39 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 at Notaria's supermax facility, San Quentin. 40 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Good morning. 41 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,000 You're Vernel? 42 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,000 I'm Vernel. You are? 43 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Adam Savage. 44 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,000 I see your ID, sir. 45 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Oh, yes. 46 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Here you go. 47 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 Okay. Well, thank you. Welcome to San Quentin. 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Thank you very much. 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Shall we go take a look at what you got? 50 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Let's take a walk on inside. 51 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 All right. 52 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 With all the security, weapons are rare behind bars, right? 53 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Wrong. 54 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 A trip to the prison museum shows just how wrong. 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 I know it's a personality flaw in my part, 56 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 but I really enjoy this part of the area. 57 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 This is the area where we keep the various types of creative contraband 58 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 that inmates have created inside the prison. 59 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 My God, I'm just looking at it without any explanation. 60 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 I'm astonished by the level of ingenuity. 61 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,000 For starters, how about a gun made entirely from plumbing parts? 62 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Fires a 32 caliber round. 63 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 It's a semi-automatic bolt action. 64 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:31,000 And that device you see on the front, that's actually a flash guard. 65 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Oh my God. 66 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Adam's impressed. 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 Inmates will use anything and everything to fashion a weapon, 68 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 including, you've guessed it, newspaper. 69 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Now, that looks like a paper spear, like newspaper. 70 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Am I right? 71 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Well, exactly. It is newspaper, and what they did is they created it, 72 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,000 made it into a shaft. 73 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 On the end, that's actually... 74 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Yeah. 75 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 That's a Styrofoam cup. 76 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 No. 77 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Tempered Styrofoam arrowheads, 78 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 candy wrapper blow darts, restroom revolvers. 79 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Perhaps a paper crossbow is not beyond the bounds of reason. 80 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Thanks so much for showing me around. 81 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Do you have the key to let me out here? 82 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I do have the key, yes, I have. 83 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Can you get the key? 84 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 I could have. 85 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Can you get the key right now? 86 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Freedom tastes sweet, and Adam's taste buds are tingling for this murderous myth. 87 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Meanwhile, his partner in crime is on the hunt for some killer briefs. 88 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 So Tim, I'm looking for some prison style underwear. 89 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Now, do you know what that would typically be? 90 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 I would think it would be the most basic of basics. 91 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 No drums, no whistles. 92 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 So I would think that would be what you're looking for for prison. 93 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,000 I mean, I have some other styles, 94 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 but I don't think the government is going to give it to prisoners. 95 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 While Tim searches out his most austere undies, 96 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Jamie rummages among some styles that prisoners can only dream about. 97 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,000 You got your camo underwear. 98 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Oh, and that's lovely as well. 99 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 That certainly makes a statement. 100 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,000 I'm not sure what exactly, but... 101 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,000 You think we could call this standard prison issue? 102 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,000 Well, you might get locked up for wearing them, but prisoners go plain. 103 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Yeah, I don't know how we're going to separate the elastic out of these strips, 104 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 but I guess if you're in prison, you got lots of time. 105 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 I would say, and necessity also being the mother of invention. 106 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Well, I think we're all set, Tim. 107 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 There he goes, sir. 108 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Jamie makes tracks back to M5, 109 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:45,000 where he finds that another lethal crossbow component has been delivered. 110 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Wow! 111 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Prison issue, dinner trays. 112 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Now, we can only use these for making the tips. 113 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 The myth is called paper crossbow. 114 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,000 You can't build the bulk of it out of this thing. 115 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 I don't know, it's kind of springy. 116 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,000 So they've got the materials for both bowstring and arrowhead. 117 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Now for the sticky bit. 118 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,000 You know, there's one aspect to this myth that we have yet to deal with, 119 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,000 and there's no information on it. It's glue. 120 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Yeah, if they had super glue, they could make something equivalent to fiberglass, even. 121 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Well, I think in order to maintain the spirit of the home-built crossbow, 122 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 we really should look at some kind of home-brew glue, 123 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 something we made with readily available materials. 124 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Sure, there's got to be something out there. 125 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 If the glue doesn't hold, the paper crossbow will fall apart, 126 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 and with it, the myth. 127 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,000 So the guys decide to try out four different homemade varieties. 128 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,000 There's casine glue, made from milk, vinegar, and baking soda. 129 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 I haven't really ended up with a glue. 130 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 It's more of a paste. 131 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Then there's glues made from plain flour. 132 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Oh, not too much, not too much. 133 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,000 White flour, and the hot favorite, gelatin and glycerin. 134 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I like this the best. I mean, personally, I think that's the most promising. 135 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,000 To test their stickability, Adam whips up some simple rigs. 136 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 I want to test the relative strengths of each of them. 137 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 So I've made up a test rig, which is comprised of two pieces of wood, 138 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 a handle, and a sheet of newspaper in between. 139 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 He glues each of the four rigs together with a different glue. 140 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Then leaves them to set in a drying cabinet. 141 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 I think my glue tests have dried, 142 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,000 and now it's time to do some strength testing on them. 143 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 First up on the fish scale, flour and water. 144 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,000 That was 25 pounds of force. That's actually kind of impressive. 145 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 Test number two, flour, water, and sugar. 146 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Two, three. 147 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Also 25 pounds. 148 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 This is the casine glue. 149 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Yeah. 21 pounds. 150 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I mean, it was more like a paste than anything else. 151 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 It just really didn't do it. 152 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Last but not least, my personal favorite, the gelatin glue. 153 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,000 36 pounds. 154 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 We have a winner. 155 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I couldn't quite hang off of that, but that's pretty darn good. 156 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 It is a bookbinding glue, and it definitely looks the nicest. 157 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Finally, there's the control test. Wood glue. 158 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 It's been a while since Adam heard himself on the show, 159 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 but this setup has potential. 160 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Yep, business as usual. 161 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,000 60 pounds of force across the knuckles is going to sting a little. 162 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 That hurt. 163 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Check this out, Jimmy. 164 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,000 After the break, Adam and Jamie check out a paper cut, prison style. 165 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 That's nasty. 166 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000 And another round of vodka myths fires up with a splutter. 167 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Vodka is an ancient Russian beverage long popular 168 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 for keeping up the spirits in a hostile climate. 169 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,000 But many a tall tale has been spun around the legendary drink. 170 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 And over several weeks, the mythbusters are testing some out. 171 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Oh yeah, that's good. 172 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Okay. 173 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,000 In previous episodes, they proved that vodka can remove even the worst foot odor. 174 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 And that it's a match for the foulest breath. 175 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:43,000 That burns. 176 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Yeah, cinnamony, actually. 177 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Now they're testing some more vodka myths. 178 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 First up, vodka smoke remover. 179 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Anybody who has dated a smoker or knows a smoker knows their clothes really smell bad. 180 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 So this might be a really nice cure for them. 181 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Down the years, washing powders have promised more than just clean clothes. 182 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 They've promised a kind of heaven on earth. 183 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,000 That's the promise. 184 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 What a wonderful sight when you're washing. 185 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 But can vodka work miracles with smoke infested laundry? 186 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Carrie's going to try and get more from her wash with a splash of the heart stuff. 187 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 To kick things off, Carrie creates an automated smoking machine. 188 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,000 I'm going to use a little siphon and make a little airtight tube. 189 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Drill some holes, put some cigarettes in it. 190 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,000 This is an airtight box that Tori built for another myth. 191 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 We were doing a little experiment with explosive decompression. 192 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 It's just big enough to hang two sweatshirts inside, 193 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,000 get them saturated with smoke so that we have something to test. 194 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Sounds like a plan. 195 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,000 In go the shirts, followed by Carrie and the lighter. 196 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 I should have worn a respirator for that. 197 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Before her lungs can recover, there's an outbreak of passive smoking. 198 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Last thing I want. 199 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Oh no! 200 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Hey, I'm going to leak over here too. 201 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 What happened to Tori's airtight box? 202 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:28,000 By the time she's done taping, her smoke box looks like Yield Brenner's bedroom. 203 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Oh, they're almost down to the filter. 204 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 I can still see some little red glowing lights right there. 205 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 I can barely see anything. 206 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:43,000 I smell like bingo nights, some French-born cinema kind of old lady bar. 207 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,000 And according to the myth, Vodka's just the job to remove that stubborn smell. 208 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Two days later, and the shirts are ripe for the picking. 209 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 They both smell like ashtrays. 210 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,000 I'm going to take them to the laundromat quickly. 211 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,000 God, that is horrible. 212 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Okay, there we go. 213 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,000 That would be one part vodka, two, three parts water. 214 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Just one jacket will be sprayed with a vodka spritzer. 215 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 The other will be the control. 216 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Whoa! 217 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,000 That's horrible. 218 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Well, it's just smoky. 219 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 It's like you would, you know, spend the night in a bar. 220 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,000 Yeah, that reeks. 221 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Spent the night on the floor of a bar. 222 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 A quick product test at its wash time. 223 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Okay, the vodka's going to be on the end. 224 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:39,000 And this one, the smoky, will be to the left. 225 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 And now it's a waiting game. 226 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:51,000 So here's a few tips on how to pass the time while the soap suds do their thing. 227 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Now we're just working. 228 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,000 We're going to be here. 229 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Can I get a little privacy? 230 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Geez. 231 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 And here's some more highlights of the drying cycle. 232 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 German surrealist painter starting with Z or Q. 233 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Because you're the one who said... 234 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Is it done yet? 235 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 Guys, look, it's done. 236 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 It's done with the capital E. 237 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 Yay! 238 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Okay, you know what I'd like to do for this one? 239 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 I'd like to do a blind smell test. 240 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000 So I'll have you turn around. 241 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,000 Okay. 242 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 And then Tori and I will switch your room. 243 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 That's a good idea. 244 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 All right. 245 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Grant is well-established as the Mythbusters olfactory expert. 246 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 This one has a slightly oaky smell. 247 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Yeah. 248 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 Shirt sniff number two and what's the verdict? 249 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 So this is the better smelling one, right? 250 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Yep. 251 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 And it's the one that we sprayed on. 252 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,000 Hey! 253 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Don't, don't, don't. 254 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Not that much better smelling, I want to say. 255 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 But a little better. 256 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 A little better. 257 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:04,000 The Mythbusters are investigating the myth that an inmate at a Supermax prison was shot 258 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:09,000 and killed by a paper crossbow when some intriguing footage arrives. 259 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Check this out, Jimmy. 260 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:19,000 A official within the California prison system sent me this video of an inmate in the prison 261 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 constructing and firing a crossbow-like weapon. 262 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Check this out. 263 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:30,000 The video was shot at Palakon Bay Prison in Northern California, where modern cells are 264 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,000 designed for maximum safety. 265 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Even so, some inmates find ways to hurt staff or each other. 266 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Here, an inmate shows how he constructed a sophisticated crossbow-type weapon from materials 267 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 the state is required to give him. 268 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Elastic from underwear. 269 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,000 A barrel and darts from writing paper rolled tightly. 270 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,000 A plastic spoon sharpened as a legal point. 271 00:14:54,000 --> 00:15:00,000 The weapon is engineered to fit through the door, making staff or other inmates a target. 272 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,000 That's nasty. 273 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,000 I think that the very first step is just to try and replicate that thing. 274 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,000 It's a tantalizing glimpse of a paper weapon in action. 275 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,000 But is it a crossbow? 276 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,000 There's only one way to find out. 277 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,000 To stay true to the myth, Adam uses the homemade bookbinding glue. 278 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:31,000 And the bowstring comes courtesy of their state-issue underwear, which is disappointingly low on power. 279 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Yeah, it doesn't look anything like what it does in the video. 280 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,000 I think it's because the fabric is really dampening it. 281 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Yeah. 282 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Jamie thinks that separating the rubber from the fabric will give more power. 283 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I just have a hard time believing an inmate could pull all the rubber out of this sort of thing. 284 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 I don't have any problem with that at all. 285 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 I mean, it's just a matter of time. 286 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,000 And patience, of which Adam has precious little. 287 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:06,000 So while Jamie does the painstaking stuff, he bolts to make an arrow from plastic cutlery. 288 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Where I'm using the sand to just picture someone rubbing it on the window sill for a few hours. 289 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Round two with the liberated underwear elastic. 290 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,000 Yay! 291 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Jamie, that was pretty good, man. 292 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 That looks exactly like what the video showed. 293 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Maybe, but it doesn't fulfill the myth. 294 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000 This is a pretty serious little weapon. 295 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000 However, it's not what I would call a crossbow. 296 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 This is more of a spear gun. 297 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:41,000 So what we have to do now to follow the letter of the myth is actually build something that is a crossbow. 298 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 In other words, one of these. 299 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Plenty powerful enough to kill one of these. 300 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Coming up, Adam and Jamie hit the range to test drive a real crossbow. 301 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Nicely done. 302 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Take us two yards, Neeter. 303 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:02,000 And it's B for blasted in the myth of the vodka bee killer. 304 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 That's terrible, they're drunk. 305 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:19,000 In the myth of the paper crossbow, Adam and Jamie are at archery only in Newark. 306 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:25,000 They want to know more about what exactly they're going to be building a paper version of. 307 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:30,000 The main difference between a crossbow and a regular bow is that on a regular bow, 308 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:36,000 the archer or the shooter is actually going to pull it all the way back to full draw and hang on to the weight physically. 309 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:44,000 So in a crossbow, you physically cock the mechanism back and you can actually walk around with the weapon cocked and locked and ready to shoot. 310 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Almost like a firearm. 311 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Pretty good. 312 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Have you heard the myth of a prison convict making a paper crossbow out of newspaper and shooting and killing another inmate with it? 313 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 I have not, no. 314 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Do you think something like that would be possible? 315 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,000 I believe it is possible, but pretty unlikely. 316 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000 So they know what they're aiming for. 317 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:16,000 They want some hard data about crossbow performance in terms of accuracy, velocity and penetration. 318 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:24,000 If you know the weight and velocity of a missile, you can work out its kinetic energy. 319 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,000 One of the measurements for assessing a weapon's killing capacity. 320 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,000 And it's 28 grams. 321 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Now for the velocity. 322 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Jamie fires off some bolts through a chronograph, which clocks their speed in feet per second. 323 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 That was 259 on that first shot. 324 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 259? 325 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 159. 326 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,000 So Jamie, your average on those three shots was 251 feet per second. 327 00:18:53,000 --> 00:19:01,000 That gives a kinetic energy of 61 foot-pounds enough to bring down a black bear, let alone an inmate. 328 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Rest to 51? 329 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:12,000 To find the most lethal arrowhead, they'll fire a variety at a block of ballistics wax from a distance of 15 feet. 330 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,000 About the width of the prison corridor in the paper crossbow myth. 331 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000 For starters, they'll use a standard arrowhead. 332 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Alright, let's bring a tape measure over. 333 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:26,000 Who? 334 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Ah, so. 335 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,000 With a target tip, it penetrated six inches. 336 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,000 Six inches of penetration. 337 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Not bad. 338 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Next, they try a four-bladed razor tip used for hunting. 339 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 This one went six and a half inches. 340 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Next, a cut on contact broadhead. 341 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Alright. 342 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,000 It's a traditional hunting tip, as old as the Stone Age. 343 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Oh, that went a lot farther, man. 344 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,000 So about eight inches. 345 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 About eight inches. 346 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 That's good, because that's the easiest one for us to make. 347 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 With a plastic food tray. 348 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 So, watch the verdict. 349 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Just thinking this one through from a mechanical standpoint, I'd be totally pleased with two inches of penetration. 350 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Generally, I prefer a little bit more. 351 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 There's no way a paper crossbow will achieve this much penetration. 352 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,000 So, to be lethal, it may have to be deadly accurate. 353 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 The final test, just how sharp can a crossbow shoot? 354 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,000 So, Jamie, the key is here is just tight grouping. 355 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Okay. 356 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,000 From 15 feet, the distance specified in the myth, this should be a walk in the park. 357 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 Yeah, look at that! 358 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 Nicely done. 359 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Wow. 360 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 Ain't gonna get much closer than that. 361 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,000 No, I don't think you are. 362 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 Three bolts, one hole, not bad. 363 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000 So, what do we know? 364 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,000 We know a crossbow can produce 61 foot-pounds of kinetic energy. 365 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:07,000 Enough to bury a hunting tip eight inches into the eye of a deer from 15 feet. 366 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 A real crossbow is lethal. 367 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:14,000 So, the question is, how lethal can we make one out of paper? 368 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:20,000 The pen may be mightier than the sword, but could paper really be a match for a crossbow? 369 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Time for another vodka myth. 370 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:36,000 What if you've got an infestation of bees and no commercial bee killer? 371 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,000 According to one myth, vodka could be your solution. 372 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000 One of the other vodka myths that we've heard of is that vodka could be used as a bee killer. 373 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:54,000 So, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna build a bee box, basically a clear plex box that will keep the little critters in so they don't come out and start stinging us. 374 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:00,000 We'll fill this up with vodka and then spray it in there and see if it does in fact kill the bees. 375 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:05,000 For Tori, knocking up a bee box is as simple as A-B-C. 376 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Breathing holes will ensure that the bees don't suffocate. 377 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,000 No point in trying to kill bees that are already dead. 378 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000 There you go. 379 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:20,000 You got a box, throw the bees in, close the lid, close the latch. 380 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:25,000 I'm probably gonna tape it up just in case and then we'll start killing bees. 381 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,000 Splendid. Now for a spot of bee wrangling. 382 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Alright worst case scenario, like a whole bunch of bees get into the suit and they start stinging the heck out of us. What do you do? 383 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 What you might want to remember is bees always fly up. 384 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:45,000 So like when a month there is my overalls, you open up the top part and let them fly up and out, up and out. 385 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:51,000 You know, run, first run, unzip, you know, pull off everything and they'll try to fly up. 386 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 So now you know. 387 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 We are ready. Take us to your leader. 388 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Take us to your leader. 389 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:02,000 Laughing in the face of terror, our amateur apiarists are led to a busy hive. 390 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Whoa! 391 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:11,000 And you can see how this is all filled with honey, nectar that hasn't quite formed into honey at the moment. 392 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Dead bees walking. 393 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Now we're just gonna put a few of them in the box. 394 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,000 When is a bee a guinea pig? When it's unlucky enough to end up in Tori's bee box. 395 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 Is that good? 396 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Yes, thank you little babies. Very kind of you. 397 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 We're done with this? 398 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 They're kind of poking my head. 399 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Brace your nose dude. 400 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Before things get to the running and unzipping stage, they make a quick exit. 401 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Back at the shop, the bee governor has failed to grant a last minute reprieve, so Tori gets down to work. 402 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000 I have one spray bottle filled with water, one spray bottle filled with vodka, and so now I'm gonna test the myth. 403 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:58,000 What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna spray five times into the bee box with the vodka, spray five times into this bee box with the water, and see how the bees respond to each. 404 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Okay, here we go. Vodka first. 405 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,000 The bees are starting to roll around. 406 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 That's terrible, they're drunk. 407 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000 It's the bee bender from hell. 408 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:19,000 It looks like they're climbing the walls to get out of the liquid, so you know, if it's gonna kill them, it could be that they're just drowning in it, and that would work with any liquid. 409 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:26,000 While they wallow in vodka, Tori sprays Box 2 with an equivalent volume of plain water. 410 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Then he leaves the bees to sink or swim for a quarter hour, which in bee time seems like an eternity. 411 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Coming up on MythMusters, Adam and Jamie get rolling in the PaperCrospo build-off. 412 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,000 The Red Baron. 413 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:47,000 And are the bees dead as dodo's or drunk as skunks in Vodka Bee Killer? 414 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Hey, I got two more survivors. 415 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Give us a break. 416 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 And don't try anything you're about to see us do at home. 417 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:10,000 In the myth of the PaperCrospo, Adam and Jamie have researched contraband prison weapons, 418 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:17,000 constructed a replica of a paper speargun, and performance tested a real crossbow. 419 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Now they're ready for a MythBusters build-off. 420 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 I know you don't like the competition thing, but we're going to do a build-off here. 421 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,000 And we're going to each build our own crossbow using only newspaper, 422 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000 underwear elastic, plastic food tray, and homemade glue. 423 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:43,000 And then we're going to test them and see who's made the most potentially lethal and accurate PaperCrospo. 424 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Well, you know the first thing I'm going to do. 425 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Cheat? 426 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:47,000 Yeah. 427 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 Here's the news. 428 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:54,000 With just two days to make their deadly weapons, they've got a tool shop amnesty. 429 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:59,000 We can use any tools we want. We're not scraping this against the jail bars or anything. 430 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:04,000 We're assuming there's enough time to shape and cut pretty much anything. 431 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 The homemade glue is brewed and it's on your marks. 432 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Are you ready? I promise not to look around the barrier. 433 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:17,000 You're welcome to look at it. It'll be fine. I know I'll be looking. 434 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Here we go. 435 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,000 Adam and Jamie rarely use paper as a building material in special effects. 436 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,000 So it's a case of trial and error. 437 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,000 I have no idea from one minute to the next what the structure is going to do or be. 438 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000 No idea. 439 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:42,000 In its early stages, this build is basically origami, which is like watching paint dry. 440 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,000 So let's cover the first few hours with a music montage. 441 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 And remember, don't try this one at home. Leave it to the Mythbusters. 442 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Okay, that should do it. Let's check on progress. 443 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:05,000 I'm going with a really classic approach. It's very much the shape of a crossbow. 444 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000 I'm hoping that works. It could all just crush the moment I start. 445 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Jamie's design is slightly more complex. 446 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:20,000 What I've decided to do is make a couple of things that are basically the same shape, 447 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:24,000 and they pivot on a central axis point. 448 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Their main problem is that newspaper has zero tensile strength. 449 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:33,000 Adam compensates by adding tightly rolled support struts, 450 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:39,000 while Jamie's gone for cone shapes, reinforced with crumpled paper. 451 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000 It's sort of like a honeycomb aluminum made out of paper. 452 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:49,000 By the end of the day, Adam's simple design has grown arms, legs, and wings. 453 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 I call this the red Baron. 454 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Eddie thinks it's pretty fly. 455 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:04,000 If it all goes as I think it might, it's going to have a fair amount of power to it. 456 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,000 But you never know what Jamie's going to come up with. 457 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Jamie's lagging behind, but he's aiming high with his ambitious design. 458 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:18,000 It may start like this, and then I'll cock it back like so. 459 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000 We shall see whether it actually works. 460 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:26,000 They leave their crossbow contraptions to dry overnight and hit the showers. 461 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,000 And rubber kits working with newspaper can be dirty. 462 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,000 After the break, gentlemen, choose your weapons. 463 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:39,000 Adam and Jamie go head to head in the paper crossbow shootout. 464 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 I shot Grant in the face. 465 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Tari's testing the sting in another tall tale. 466 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 Vodka B-Killer. 467 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,000 He sprayed one sample with vodka and another with water, 468 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000 and he's back for a health check. 469 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,000 We're about 15 minutes into this experiment. 470 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000 It looks like the water bees are doing a lot worse than the vodka bees, 471 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,000 and I don't know why that is. 472 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Perhaps they're hard drinking worker bees. 473 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,000 I think what I'll do is just let each of the box dry out, 474 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000 and then come back and then do a death count. 475 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000 What a fun myth this is. 476 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:27,000 Even if the vodka doesn't kill them, tomorrow you're going to wish it had. 477 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000 So how to go with the vodka and the water with the bees? 478 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000 The two things that I noticed when I started the experiment 479 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,000 was one, when I sprayed the vodka and the bees jumped out of the vodka 480 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,000 onto the sides of the wall, so they got out there as soon as they could. 481 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000 When I sprayed the water, they didn't move. 482 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000 They just kind of stayed there. 483 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000 So look at that guy. 484 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 I think he's still alive. 485 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Watch, do some, you know, B-C-P-R. B-P-R. 486 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,000 All right, we'll pull these guys out, see if we can revive some of them, 487 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000 and then we'll count the bodies. 488 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Sounds like some kind of B-grade horror movie. 489 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 With the water bees in need of immediate attention, 490 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,000 they get the hair dryer treatment. 491 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Did it come out with a little beehive hairdo? 492 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 Oh, beehive. 493 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,000 At first, all seems lost, but Grant and Tari keep believing, 494 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000 and slowly a little miracle starts to unfold. 495 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 Hey, I got two more survivors. 496 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000 Apparently bees have a waxy coating on the thorax, 497 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000 so though drenched, they weren't drowned. 498 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 That's pretty amazing. All but two came back to life. 499 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Your B-C-P-R was truly a thing to behold. 500 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Like a bee whisperer. 501 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Why, thank you. 502 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:42,000 And while the water bees were tallying off, the vodka bees were sobering up. 503 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Hey, check out these guys. These guys are kicking ass. 504 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000 No, that's amazing. 505 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000 I thought the ones that we sprayed with water were all dead. 506 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000 We got all but two revived. 507 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Yeah, and the vodka ones, we didn't even need to revive them. 508 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000 We didn't lose a single bee. 509 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 So vodka is a bee killer? 510 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000 Totally busted. 511 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,000 Busted? 512 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000 With a capital B. 513 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000 It's day two in the Paper Crossbow build-off, 514 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:17,000 and the mythbusters are up right and early to see how their creations have fared overnight. 515 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Ready, Timmy? 516 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Put simply, no he's not. 517 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000 This thing's turning out to be a little bit unstable. 518 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,000 I'm not really sure what to do about it. 519 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,000 So basically I don't have anything to say about it. 520 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,000 I'm trying to fuss with it. 521 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,000 While Jamie's in a flap, Adam's flying. 522 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000 With time to spare, he uses the remains of his dinner tray 523 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,000 to add a bona fide firing mechanism. 524 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,000 A genuine crossbow in under two days, 525 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,000 made only from newspaper, underwear, and a prison food tray. 526 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000 No wonder he's pleased. 527 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000 I can't wait to shoot this thing. 528 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Meanwhile, Jamie's been forced into a retreat, 529 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000 and he's locked down all moving parts. 530 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,000 With time running out, he adds support struts 531 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000 to strengthen his now rigid four cone structure. 532 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:27,000 I'm just having one left go at it to see whether I can't optimize the performance of it 533 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000 and reduce the likelihood of some kind of general collapse. 534 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:36,000 I'm pretty sure at a certain point, this whole thing's just going to be a lot of paper. 535 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000 Adam's already at work on the set. 536 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,000 It is the perfect prison color. 537 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:52,000 I call this lockdown green one prison door. 538 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,000 You can't keep me in here, copper. I'm going to get out. 539 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000 With only minutes remaining, Jamie fashions a plastic bolt and attaches the bow string. 540 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 Well, time to walk away. 541 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:18,000 According to the myth, the paper crossbow killer unleashed his deadly missile from behind his cell door. 542 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:25,000 15 feet away, it struck and killed its target, played by inmate Himahara. 543 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,000 All right, well, where are we supposed to, are we going to try and shoot him in the head? 544 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:34,000 Yeah, I mean, I think if you're going to try and hurt somebody, you know, shooting him in the face. 545 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000 No sooner said than done. 546 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000 For a control, Adam fires off a headshot from a regular crossbow. 547 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,000 Three, two, one. 548 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000 Nice shot. 549 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000 I shot grant in the face. 550 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000 The chronograph measures 251 feet per second. 551 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:04,000 At a 61 foot pounds of force, that's a carbon copy of the archery shop results. 552 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 I got it right in his left nostril. 553 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000 Dude, that is so going right in his nose. 554 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000 You got to come here and check this out. 555 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000 What are you doing there, Grant? 556 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000 That's hard stuff. 557 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Oh, that only going in that far. 558 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,000 This, ours are just going to bounce off that sucker. 559 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Well, three and a quarter inches of penetration. 560 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000 So a fatal shot? 561 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000 With a commercial crossbow, inmate Himahara would definitely be cold dead. 562 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 That's the benchmark. 563 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000 So how will the Mythbusters paper versions measure up? 564 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Time to lift the veil on their closely guarded contenders. 565 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,000 I have not yet seen Jamie's design. 566 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:04,000 I'm always fascinated by our different approaches to problems like these. 567 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,000 Actually, I've been watching what Adam's been doing the entire time, 568 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000 in spite of the rules against doing that. 569 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,000 You know, without having rules to break, there'd be no particular interest in the competition for me. 570 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000 I think it's time to see what each others built. 571 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Dude, if the full draw of the bow makes it collapse, is candy going to pour out? 572 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000 I'm sorry, I've already tried it. I've shot it a few times. 573 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000 Oh, really? 574 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000 No, kidding. 575 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000 Wow, that's pretty good. 576 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Could Jamie be staring down the barrel of a rare defeat? 577 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Adam's, you could, like, use as a club and it'd probably be just fine. 578 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000 You could still shoot it. 579 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,000 This thing, I could just go like that and break in half with my hands. 580 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000 So, I have my doubts about this. 581 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000 Jamie, are you ready to shoot? 582 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000 I'm going to shoot. 583 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Don't sound so thrilled about it, you'll freak people out. 584 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,000 Strictly speaking, a prison assassin would have just one shot. 585 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,000 Jamie takes dead aim through his cell door's dinner hatch. 586 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Are you ready on high speed? 587 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000 Ready. 588 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000 Ready. 589 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,000 Alright, seems to be holding up. 590 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Okay, well you're ready, Kenny. 591 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000 60. 592 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000 60. 593 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:30,000 I ain't half bad, really. 594 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000 No. 595 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000 A real crossbow was what, 250? 596 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000 Yeah, 60 feet per second. 597 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000 The barrel's flying nice and straight, watch it hit the target. 598 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,000 Whoa. 599 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:41,000 Yeah. 600 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000 The bolt bounced off inmate Imahara's head before hitting the target behind. 601 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000 It's an unexpectedly impressive result. 602 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000 A bolt from the blue, you might say. 603 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,000 I was actually pretty pleased with the first shot on this thing. 604 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,000 I think it did considerably better than the one that we saw that the prisoners had made. 605 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000 So far, so good. 606 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,000 I think we can get a little bit more speed out of it and I think it's actually kind of deadly 607 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000 if you hit somebody in exactly the right spot. 608 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000 Coming up, the shootout showdown. 609 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Is Adam's paper crossbow a paper tiger or does it have real bite? 610 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,000 Woo! 611 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000 Jamie's paper crossbow has confounded the critics. 612 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:38,000 His very first shot struck inmate Imahara at 60 feet per second. 613 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,000 People were giving me a hard time saying, you know, ah, is candy going to fall out of that thing? 614 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000 It looks like a piñata. 615 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,000 But it has actually held up. 616 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,000 With a little bit more practice, maybe a little refinement on the device, 617 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000 it could quite possibly do some serious damage to somebody. 618 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,000 Happy days. 619 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Jamie tightens his bow and loads another bolt. 620 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Good. 621 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000 Let's go again. 622 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,000 It's 68 feet per second. 623 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000 Okay. 624 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000 It hit his head. 625 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000 It looked like it hit just to the left of his right eye. 626 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000 Let's go one sideways. 627 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Okay, I think this is done. 628 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000 You can see the crinkle starting to form here. 629 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:31,000 We actually got quite a few shots out of it though and close to 70 feet a second, is it? 630 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000 That's not half bad. 631 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000 Jamie's crossbow has shot its bow. 632 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,000 So what's the verdict? 633 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,000 While I can't say that this particular device is lethal based on what I've seen today, 634 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:47,000 I can tell you that I would not want to get hit in the eye with one of these things 635 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000 and if I did, I might die. 636 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:57,000 He might, but calculations show that the kinetic energy of Jamie's fastest bolt was just four foot pounds. 637 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 Compared to 60 foot pounds for a real crossbow. 638 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000 Time for a scientific timeout. 639 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:17,000 I found a chart that lists the kinetic energy in foot pounds of the average amount that you need to take down certain kinds of game. 640 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,000 Less than 25 foot pounds of kinetic energy is only good for small game. 641 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,000 25 to 41, medium game like Deer or Analope. 642 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:30,000 42 to 65 foot pounds, large game like Elk and Black Bear. 643 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:36,000 And above 66 foot pounds, we're talking the toughest game, Grizzly, Buffalo, that kind of thing. 644 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:41,000 Well, I would say that a human would qualify as medium game actually because, you know, 645 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,000 a full-sized deer can weigh as much or more than a human. 646 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:51,000 So according to the official numbers, Jamie's paper crossbow could only bring down small game. 647 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,000 Notwithstanding a one in a million right in the eye shot. 648 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,000 Over to Adam, our second would-be assassin. 649 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Alright, I am ready to fire my crossbow, which I have nicknamed the Dream Catcher. 650 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000 Dream Catcher sounds about right. 651 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,000 For this myth to be plausible, Adam must combine more power with deadly accuracy. 652 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000 And he must do it with his very first shot. 653 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,000 Alright, Grant. Going for the neck. 654 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,000 In three, two, one. 655 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000 Hey! 656 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000 Good shot. 657 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000 85 feet per second, baby. 658 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,000 Yay! 659 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,000 He hit him right in the neck, man. 660 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,000 Oh, man, look at that, right in the jugular. 661 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 That's a full inch of penetration there. 662 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000 It's an amazing result. 663 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000 But how about the kinetic energy? 664 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000 Was it enough to be a killer bolt? 665 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:06,000 I also come out with a total amount of foot pounds expended by the projectile of 7.5, 666 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,000 which is pretty much by what I've been reading, good for small game. 667 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,000 Not necessarily good for bringing down a full-size human. 668 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:18,000 Yeah, but you hit that guy right in the jugular, and that's enough to kill somebody. 669 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000 It went in a solid inch. 670 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:25,000 Small game, weapon or not, if you hit somebody like that, they're gone. 671 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000 There we go. In the interests of science, 672 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000 and shooting stuff, 673 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,000 91. 674 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,000 Adam pushes his paper crossbow to the limit. 675 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000 What did I hit? 676 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000 You shot the apple box. 677 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000 All right, go on again, go on again. 678 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:53,000 Yeah, I think we've exhausted all of the power of this thing, but I got up to 91. 679 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:58,000 In the end, like Jamie, he could never quite match the high of that very first hit. 680 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:08,000 I think it's notable that both his and my crossbows performed much better on their first and second shots than they did ever again. 681 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:13,000 That's a real key part of this myth. Making a paper crossbow, it's a one-shot deal. 682 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:18,000 I mean, maybe you can hide this somewhere, but as soon as you shoot it, they're going to know you have it. 683 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,000 So you better get it right on the first shot. 684 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:28,000 Which is exactly what he did, making Adam the undisputed paper crossbow champion. 685 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,000 Adam, what do you think we should call this one? 686 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:39,000 I mean, we can't call it confirmed because we couldn't find a single case where somebody had actually been killed by a paper crossbow. 687 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:44,000 We couldn't even turn up one where someone had been seriously injured by a paper crossbow. 688 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:50,000 I'm actually super impressed with the amount of power we got out of these on our first attempt at it. 689 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:57,000 I mean, seven and a half foot pounds, granted, that's far under the 25 foot pounds that was recommended for bringing down medium-sized game. 690 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:02,000 But still, my shot at Inmate Amihara's throat, I think would have brought him down. 691 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000 I'm really leaning towards plausible. 692 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,000 Yeah, that was a lucky shot. I guess, you know, accuracy is the key here. 693 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,000 And you get a small, sharp object going pretty quick. It's plausible. 694 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,000 Yeah, I think it's plausible. 695 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,000 Unlikely.