It looks like a regular stapler, but attempting to slam the stapler down with excessive force will activate a spike that forces its way out of holes on the top, piercing the abusive stapler-user.

A brief warning sign could be posted. Or not.
-- twitch, Nov 23 2010

a smart smack! re-cycle_20old_20staples
[po, Nov 23 2010]

Stapler with fangs Stapler_20with_20fangs
shameless self promotion [xaviergisz, Nov 23 2010]

Why slam a stapler when you can punch the person pissing you off?

Oooh! I alliterated!
-- MikeD, Nov 23 2010


do you share a stapler and you worry about its abuse? how strange.
-- po, Nov 23 2010


The thing is, I don't think I've ever seen a stapler fatally damaged, or even seriously wounded, by heavily-handed blows.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 23 2010


well max, then you haven't seen cheap. Or you haven't really seen a "heavy hand".

Try working with polynesians, who think that the more force, the better. If they break it, their solution?: Walk away fast.
-- twitch, Nov 23 2010


Ah! There's your problem - a cheap stapler, probably Chinese.

The stapler in my library is French. Genevieve, I think she's called.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 23 2010


isn't most of what we use on the consumer level made in China? Kind of hard to avoid.
-- twitch, Nov 23 2010


Staplers should be able to resist functionality, but not be able to punish dysfunction. This is particularly important when staplers resist functionality.
-- rcarty, Nov 25 2010


Mind you this is a half-bakery stapler, and punishing dysfunction, I believe, is perfectly acceptable.

I mean, my wife punishes me all the time.
-- twitch, Nov 25 2010


Find and replace "stapler" with "woman"?
-- rcarty, Nov 25 2010


s/For those heavy-handed office fellows/Expensive vigilante stapler designed to punish those who abuse cheap staplers/g
-- swimswim, Nov 25 2010



random, halfbakery