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I left a pair of engraved cuffs on Houdini’s grave

engraved handcuffs on Houdini grave

Houdini died on this day today (Halloween, Oct. 31) back in 1926, in Detroit, and this afternoon (Halloween day, 2018) I paid a visit to his gravesite in Queens, New York.

houdini handcuffs

Houdini rests amongst his relatives in an elaborate family plot at Machpelah Cemetery in Glendale. From Manhattan, it was an hour-long trip on the subway and then a 20-minute hike.

engraved houdini handcuffs

As a tribute to Houdini, I left a pair of police-issue Smith and Wesson Model 100-1 handcuffs that I had specially engraved with his name. I made sure to double-lock the cuffs before leaving them.

MetalbondNYC handcuffs for houdini

Houdini engraved handcuffs

Show me your handcuff organizer

If you have lots of handcufs, it can be hard to keep them all organized. The Sneaker Boy uses a bin from Ikea!

The Sneaker Boy writes,

“It’s hard to keep cuffs organized. Pegboards are great, but they expose cuffs too too much moving air. I have an IKEA drawer unit (Kallax) that I keep a lot of my supplies in. After a few months of my newer cuffs and leg irons rattling around I found this ‘arts and crafts’ bin that works great to hold several pair of leg irons in the back section and up to 8 pair of handcuffs in the 4 front dividers.”

handcuff organizer

 

Good idea, Sneaker Boy!