Honestly, I can't tell. A contractor who works for the Marine Corps sent this image to us, saying that they had found this interesting bit of ingenuity during an inspection. "This trash can was modified and inventoried as a tool," he wrote.
Is there a serious shortage of extension cords somewhere that we haven't heard about? Or people keep stealing them, and no one would want to steal this?
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