A Punji stick pit in the Cu Chi district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.Jorge Láscar/Wikimedia Commons Do you hate it when you get splinters? Then you wouldn’t like this booby trap. Also called punji sticks, these spikes are pretty simple and straightforward: long bamboo spikes were plac...
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