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These guys got some press several years ago: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2006/05/fi...

I was amused hearing of fights where they beat each other only with rolled up newspapers. It beats watching tv and eating pork rinds, I guess.

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A tightly rolled newspaper or magazine can be an effective weapon; some schools of escrima or arnis demonstrate how to roll one and use it as a substitute for the short stick.

Soccer hooligans use it as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwall_brick

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