# Your questionable Macgyver move **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2018, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838 "2018-10-12T04:49:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838/21 "2018-10-15T14:49:18Z")
The chocolate bars in acid were in the pilot episode. But he’s probably stopped leaks of dangerous substances multiple times, and it’d be kind of surprising if he never used chewing gum for it. ---
**Author:** ![Sloe\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sloe\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloe_Moe)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838/22 "2018-10-15T23:17:38Z")
Qestion: is the track width of a Willis jeep equal to the width of a standard US rail line? From the same episode as the eggs-in-the-radiator. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838/23 "2018-10-16T00:12:14Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > I don’t recall the set-up, but he was standing by a table with C4 on it and photography equipment. He and another were surrounded by baddies. He stuck the plug from a camera flash into a block of C-4, activated the flash timer, and when the timer went off it triggered the C-4 because, well, electricity sets off C-4. This is the most questionable Macgyver move brought up so far. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iIi9kjccuYY/hqdefault.jpg "MacGyver - Silly Putty Bomb") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIi9kjccuYY&t=0m56s) ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838/24 "2018-10-16T01:28:52Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I’m not sure how successfully an enemy can be distracted if you shove a celery stalk up your butt. > > Oh, wait, that was MacGruber. I know it’s counter-intuitive but you’re gonna want to start with the wide end. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838/25 "2018-10-16T01:58:29Z")
Once while being chased by people who were trying to kill him, he stopped to rig the traffic lights to stop the people chasing him. Even IF the traffic could be configured (they couldn’t) was the bad guy’s thought, “sure I’ll kill Macgyver, but no way I’m running a red light”? That’s the last episode I watched. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838/26 "2018-10-16T02:51:26Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Once while being chased by people who were trying to kill him, he stopped to rig the traffic lights to stop the people chasing him. Even IF the traffic could be configured (they couldn’t) was the bad guy’s thought, “sure I’ll kill Macgyver, but no way I’m running a red light”? > > That’s the last episode I watched. S1 E3 The bad guys were intelligence officers- they were in police vehicles, so they weren’t afraid of running red lights. He rigged the lights so they would all turn red, causing a traffic jam. That’s what stopped the officers in cars from keeping up, not red lights that they were afraid to run. The officers on motorcycles were able to weave through traffic and stay on his tail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-questionable-macgyver-move/822838.md?page=1)