Angus MacGyver, the main character of the timeless television show, has escaped many a fate with nothing more than the random objects he has in front of him.
Over on Reddit, users are sharing their best "MacGyver moments," where they were able to extricate themselves from sticky situations using non-obvious tools.
One user fixed a $250,000 satellite antenna with aluminum foil.
"Working on a ship in the Arctic. New satellite antenna installed in Norway isn't working quite right. Would periodically fail to transmit and would often drop the connection entirely.
"Figured it was interference from the closely located ship radar array (the spinning things you see on top of large ships).
"Got a roll of heavy duty tinfoil from the kitchen, went topside, and wrapped everything in the radome in aluminum foil, aside from the dish.
"Fixed it."
You can unfreeze your car doors by peeing on them.
"Me and my friend went to a ski slope in his old Skoda (86 model, looked like a 60s car). It was cold that night and after the skiing the doors of the Skoda had all frozen. My friend fixed it by pulling the rubber seal of one of the windows, he then proceeded to pee through the gap by the window onto the locking mechanism inside the door so he could unlock it. Problem solved."
You can perform minor surgery with a piece of wire.
"We used a piece of wire found in the earthquake rubble as a stylet to intubate a baby after the earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti. Not exactly the 'right' way to do it, but at that point it doesn't really matter.
"Here is a slideshow of a bunch of the pictures I took on that trip. Hopefully they can clear up any misconceptions about how little equipment my particular team had to work with and how bad the situation was."
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