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Why did Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 include a UN-banned booby trap?
- loraa 6y agoIt's a video game you dumb shit.
- eesmith 6y agoI could have sworn I first read about punji sticks as a kid in the late 1970s when reading a book my grandparents had about WWII. My memory was that it was an account by a soldier fighting in the Pacific Theater - I think in the Philippines, as resistance against the Japanese. I further seem to recall that it was the US soldiers who made the pit, but I'm less sure about that. And I think it was a Reader's Digest book. But looking now, I can't find mention of it, other than this second-hand account at https://www.quora.com/What-was-hand-to-hand-combat-like-in-the-Pacific-Theater-of-World-War-Two/answer/Kevin-Edward-Kline https://www.quora.com/What-was-hand-to-hand-combat-like-in-t... . > My grandfather was a combat medic in the Pacific Theater ... He said his greatest worries about the Japanese wasn’t H2H, but was instead booby traps (punji sticks and trip-wires, in particular), ambushes, and deception. They were great at using every natural and terrain-based advantage, turning the long battles like Okinawa into a literal meat grinder. Note that I can't find mention of those pits, including in text like "Okinawa - The Last Battle" at https://archive.org/stream/OkinawaTheLastBattle/OkinawaTheLastBattle_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/OkinawaTheLastBattle/OkinawaTheLa... which do mention booby traps. Now, their use in WWII might have gone under a different name, so, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?