handcuffs - FightWrite A Writer's Resource for Fight Scenes, Action and Violence Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:49:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.fightwrite.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/cropped-fist-pen2-1-32x32.png handcuffs - FightWrite 32 32 Dislocating A Thumb to Escape Handcuffs https://www.fightwrite.net/dislocating-thumb-to-escape-handcuffs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dislocating-thumb-to-escape-handcuffs https://www.fightwrite.net/dislocating-thumb-to-escape-handcuffs/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:12:00 +0000 https://www.fightwrite.net/dislocating-a-thumb-to-escape-cuffs/ Is dislocating a thumb to escape handcuffs a “thing?” Recently, at a writer’s conference, I was on a panel called “Blood and Guts” and was asked that very thing. One writer asked if we thought it was possible to dislocate your thumb to escape handcuffs. I said I didn’t believe so and asked a few police officers after the fact. They agreed, probably not. However, they did say women escape cuffs more often. If it was because they were dislocating their thumbs, they couldn’t say for sure. But, they kinda doubted it. More likely they escape because officers are required …

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