wirecutters

Private secretary to Baden-Powell before the Great War, he had been shot down while in the Royal Flying Corps, but had escaped from prison camp with a pair of wirecutters that Baden-Powell had hidden inside a gift of ham.

The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen 2012

Shot in the hip while fighting the Germans a pair of wirecutters partially deflected the bullet, he and another man escaped from a Nazi-controlled hospital, commandeered a machine gun and took on an entire German column, killing several of the enemy before they were forced to flee.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

Shot in the hip while fighting the Germans a pair of wirecutters partially deflected the bullet, he and another man escaped from a Nazi-controlled hospital, commandeered a machine gun and took on an entire German column, killing several of the enemy before they were forced to flee.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

Shot in the hip while fighting the Germans a pair of wirecutters partially deflected the bullet, he and another man escaped from a Nazi-controlled hospital, commandeered a machine gun and took on an entire German column, killing several of the enemy before they were forced to flee.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

Shot in the hip while fighting the Germans a pair of wirecutters partially deflected the bullet, he and another man escaped from a Nazi-controlled hospital, commandeered a machine gun and took on an entire German column, killing several of the enemy before they were forced to flee.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

Splitting into pairs and using wirecutters to get through a neighboring fence, they came at the house on two sides from the rear, capturing first little Hadeel with her dad in the garden, then Abeer and her mother in the kitchen.

Gail McGowan Mellor: The Death of Abeer in Iraq: What We Know Now 2009

Police had to use wirecutters to remove them, and needed to drag the protestors, who fell to the ground and refused to leave, to waiting police wagons.

Norm Ornstein: Tunisian Cartoons of Cheney Hunting Incident Spark Riots 2008

One night I finished my run and on the way back to the big house I saw something weird looking on one of the fences--yep, I've built or repaired barbed-wire fences, miles of them, with a post-hole digger, a pair of huge wirecutters, a hammer and some nails, and rolls of barbed wire and hundreds of tree-limb fence posts.

Sick, Sick, Sick The Daily Growler 2006

The security gates that had bisected the Promenade were collapsed, twisted by hammers and wirecutters and the frantically grasping hands of slaves set free.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

The security gates that had bisected its circular path had by now collapsed, twisted by hammers and wirecutters and the frantically grasping hands of slaves set free.

MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000