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How can i open a can of Bush's baked beans with no can opener?

I am at work and i want to enjoy some baked beans with my turkey and swiss cheese sandwich, but i dont have a can opener. I have scissors, a padlock, a lighter, and a stapler. I also have a 9mm handgun but i would get fired if i shot the can of beans (worth it?). what should i do?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Some of your "supplies" are going to be ruined doing this, maybe. Use the lighter to sterilize the scissors cutting edges and the point. Place one or both of the cutting edges points of the scissors on the lid of the can, holding it steady, and strike the top of the scissors hard enough to puncture the lid of the can. (You could use the butt of the unloaded 9mm as a hammer, but I wouldn't.) Use the padlock as a fulcrum to pull down the scissors on to go around the edge of the can lid, gaining ground with each lever action (using one sharp side of the scissors now. When you have enough of an opening, lever the lid up enough to get to the contents. This is basically the method first used on canned goods since the can opener was not invented until many years after the first cans. Good luck, and have plenty of mop up materials handy.

  • 9 years ago

    Use the 9mm because Bush's beans are pretty good.

  • 9 years ago

    Where do you work? There must be a kitchen if you are going to heat up the beans...so isn't there a can opener somewhere?? But if not...............

    I vote for Model Pilot's awesome MacGyver answer!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Hahahhahahahaha. Shoot it man, nah I'm just kidding. Just ask for a sharp knife or something. Or you can go to the kitchen if there is one where you work, or the cafeteria and just ask for one.

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  • 9 years ago

    use the scissors, "carefully" RAM THE SCISSORS RIGHT INTO THE CENTER, then go from there :P

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