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If you have a cellphone, you carry it with you everywhere, so you might as well make it do double duty as brass knuckles, right? Who really has the pocket space to carry both an intelligent cellular telephone and everyone's favorite variety of fisticuff-enchancing brass implements. Well worry no more, because the iPhone 4 and 4s Knucklecase has you covered. For the low price of $99 dollars, you can buy this aluminum -- not brass -- case and feel safe in your really-not-bad-enough-that-you-need-brass knuckles neighborhood. The downside? The design is hopelessly flawed. You'd be better off hitting evil-doers with a wet fish. Not even a big one. Like a guppy or something.

Where there's a will, there's a way and prisoners have a pretty strong will to do several things: hurt each other, escape, and make and hide contraband. Although you might not think the prisoners in our jails are the brightest fellows, they have created some pretty intense things from what little they had available. Like the makeshift shotgun above. Photographer Marc Steinmetz has put together a collection of some of the more impressive inventions found in prisons. Kind of makes you wonder what's out there that hasn't been found. Check after the jump for pictures of some more creations including a pistol and a tattoo gun.

A gentleman by the name of Tyler Riewer is fortunate to have the best friends on the planet. As a birthday gift, they created a custom suitcse fitted to hold a set of brass knuckles and a bottle of Bulleit Bourbon. The custom case features the words "Life is a daring adventure, or nothing," on the exterior along with the phrase "sack up." Inside, presumably an indicator that the contents are meant to prepare one for said adventure is the legend, "two roads to courage." Frankly, I am in awe. Not only because of the choice of bourbon -- harsh stuff, but good stuff -- but the sheer precision and low-brow class of the entire affair. Sadly, this is not the kind of gift that can be bought. If you could buy it at a store, it just wouldn't be the same. Congratulations to you, Mr. Riewer. (Images and story via Laughing Squid, Tyler Riewer)