History Main / SockItToThem

* Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Stormy Weather'' features Ira Jackson, a [[TheMafia mob goon]] who is specifically prohibited from carrying a firearm, but prefers the ''"more personal touch afforded by crowbars, [[BatterUp aluminum softball bats]], nunchaku sticks, piano wire, cutlery, or gym socks filled with lead fishing sinkers."''

* Creator/CarlHiaasen's ''Stormy Weather'' features Ira Jackson, a [[TheMafia mob goon]] who is specifically prohibited from carrying a firearm, but prefers the ''" more personal touch afforded by crowbars, [[BatterUp aluminum softball bats]], nunchaku sticks, piano wire, cutlery, or gym socks filled with lead fishing sinkers."''

SubTrope of ImprovisedWeapon.

* ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'': "Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but [[YourMom I pulled my back out humping your mom last night]]. [[VerbalTic Nootch]]. Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie-Berzerk style, and knock out the fuckin' pin and bickety bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show." \\
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Ultimately, the would-be assaulter slips, accidentally tosses the sock full of quarters in the air, and crashes, the sock of quarters landing neatly in the confused target's hands.

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* A variation in ''Film/BadBoys1983''. Mick uses a pillowcase loaded with soda cans to dish out a vicious beating to two other juvenile inmates.

* A variation is used in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''Hare Trimmed''. In response to being hit with a glove by Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny takes his own glove, puts a brick in it, and hits Sam with it. When he empties the glove, the brick is completely crumbled.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': After Meg gets out of prison, [[AlphaBitch Connie D'Amico]] and her friends are teasing her in the school cafeteria. Meg ignores them and buys a bunch of soda cans from a vending machine. She loads them into a bag, and uses the bag on the group BatterUp style.

* Creator/AgathaChristie:
** ''Literature/ParkerPyneInvestigates'': In "The Gate of Baghdad", the killer attempts to make it look like the murder victim had been coshed with a sock full of sand by planting damp sand in the spare socks carried by one of the other passengers.
** ''[[Literature/HerculePoirot Hickory Dickory Dock]]'': The final murder of the book is committed with a paperweight in a sock.

When a character uses a sock with a heavy object inside it as an improvised [[EpicFlail flail]]. The most commonly used items in fiction are [[MoneyMauling coins (preferably rolled)]], bars of soap, and [[BadGuysPlayPool pool balls]]. With coins, the most commonly used are nickels and quarters. Five dollars worth of nickels has the same mass as three baseballs, so it's easy to imagine the damage one of these weapons can do if swung fast enough.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his weapon should be a sack full of door knobs (a news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted).

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* If [[http://www.google.com/patents?id=UhANAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false US Patent 6,641,059]] is to be believed, protecting sprinker heads from such weapons is SeriousBusiness

->'''Carly:''' What is that?\\
'''Sam:''' A sock full of butter.\\

When a character uses a sock with a heavy object inside it as an improvised [[EpicFlail flail]]. The most commonly used items in fiction are coins (preferably rolled), bars of soap, and [[BadGuysPlayPool pool balls]]. With coins, the most commonly used are nickels and quarters. Five dollars worth of nickels has the same mass as three baseballs, so it's easy to imagine the damage one of these weapons can do if swung fast enough.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his WeaponOfChoice should be sack full of door knobs (a news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted).

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Drunk man uses sock full of pool balls as weapon.]]]]

* ''Series/Enlisted''; Sergeant Perez mentions her uncle was killed by someone swinging a bag full of door knobs. Or was it oranges? His corpse was sticky.

When a character uses a sock with a heavy object inside it as an improvised flail. The most commonly used items in fiction are coins (preferably rolled), bars of soap, and [[BadGuysPlayPool pool balls]]. With coins, the most commonly used are nickels and quarters. Five dollars worth of nickels has the same mass as three baseballs, so it's easy to imagine the damage one of these weapons can do if swung fast enough.

* In ''Literature/MrMercedes'' and following works in that trilogy, Hodges has the "Happy Slapper", which is a sock that has the foot part filled with ball bearings.

* In ''Film/TheHeist'', Neil defends himself against the thugs who jump him in prison with a bar of soap inside a sock.