Plastic Shards in my Carpet

So everyone knows that obnoxious hard plastic packaging that comes with pretty much every type of electronics sold these days. Yes, my eager beaver readers, we finally have a blog-worthy story.

Hawk finally caught up with the rest of the civilized world and bought a webcam.
However, the prized piece of technology came in..you guessed it...plastic that would probably withstand a couple dozen depth charges and aerial assaults.
Why on earth would a packager want to market a produce encased in packaging almost impossible to open? Are they TRYING to piss off their customers?

But Hawk believed that the webcam was worth the pain of working her scissors between two layers of the polymer. Besides, there was the added benefit of feeling very Indiana Jonesy*. You know, hacking through the underbrush with a machete. Only modernized.

So at first hack with the trusty office scissors, a little gap opened. However, a stronger push caused the weaker of the two contenders to yield. The following pictures are not for the weak-hearted. Horrible layouts and graphic images of abused office supplies follow.

Undaunted, our valiant Hawk attacked with a letter opener.

The ruler is of course there only for comparison. Hawk is not foolish enough to fight plastic with plastic.

Bad puns aside, it was time for serious business. Out came the Fiskar children's craft scissors.



They worked shockingly well, and Hawk
was incredibly amused by the little
camera-shaped indent inside the plastic.

Yet the journey was far from over, as there appeared a SECOND LAYER of plastic between Hawk and her prize. By now incredibly annoyed and cursing the inventor of packaging plastics, Hawk attacked with a vengeance.

The result? Well, as you can see here, it wasn't pretty.

Hawk now turns her attention to recycling and finding herself a spiffy fedora before her next adventure.





* Hawk has never watched any Indiana Jones movies, but she swears to sometime before Wal-Mart begins packaging their cheap underwear in hard, molded plastic containers.

Note: The deluge of images in this post are not indicative of future posts by the Hawk. She was merely carried away by the awesomeness of her little webcam. Or, to put it more bluntly, she was camera-whoring and loving it.