Bubble Wrap Torture Chamber

There is one characteristic that separates human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom, one primal, quintessentially human urge, and it is this: to pop bubble wrap. Rare indeed is the human who can resist this urge, when faced with a sheet of fresh, unpopped bubble wrap.

Imagine, then, the psychological torture of being locked inside a room where the walls are covered from ceiling to floor with unpoppable bubble wrap.

Skilfully crafted to look as soft and crumplable as normal bubble wrap, the plastic used is tough enough to resist the prisoner's attempts to pop it. Even if, by some unlikely chance, he manages to tear a small piece away, it will be in vain, for this will not produce the popping sound and squishing sensation that bubblewrappoppingophiliacs (which is to say, almost all of us) yearn to hear and feel.

Care is taken to ensure that the prisoner cannot relieve his frustration by other methods: for example, his drinks are served either in bottles with the labels glued on so firmly that he cannot peel them off, or in glasses with plastic ice cubes that he cannot crunch.

So much more effective than a normal padded cell, the bubble wrap torture chamber slowly but surely compels prisoners to surrender their secrets, their sanity, or both.