SHOTGUN

made from iron bedposts; charge

made of pieces of lead from

curtain tape and match-heads,

to be ignited by AA batteries and

a broken light bulb.

On May 21, 1984 two inmates of

a prison in Celle, Germany, took

a jailer as a hostage, showed off

their fire power by letting go at

a pane of bullet-proof glass, and

escaped by car.