Zip Tie Thumb Cuffs

You can restrain a person or even hobble a dog with three 7" zip ties!

Step 1: Prepare the zip ties

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this 7 picture ible is roughy the length of a cheap romance novel.

Form loops with 2 of the zip ties.

Comments

[Mihsin]

How in the world a zipped criminal get a hold of a safety pin to unzip the third lock?

[Instructable04]

Right...There's a criminal robbing a bank. You come up to him with a zip tie thumb cuff. "excuse me, can I please just pop this around your thumbs to stop you from hurting anyone"? "Yeah, sure mate." I just don't think this would work to restrain a violent person...

[curious youth]

apprehension locks + zip tie thuumb cuffs = problem solved

[dvbmesa]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why isn't that said in a picture rather than in words?

[cloudifornia]

Who cares?

[dvbmesa]

Apparently, no one.

[crapflinger]

gah, please don't use these during games with kids or other people. the width of these will quickly cause damage to someone's thumbs if they decide to try to struggle. there's a reason no one in any law enforcement actually uses thumbcuffs. and zipcuffs (for wrists) are about 1.5" wide so they don't cut through your wrists...

[cloudifornia]

I don't recommend them for any use, but if I needed to restrain a violent criminal, I wouldn't hesitate to use zip ties in this fashion.