A “prankster” who stretched duct tape, sticky side up, across a Forsyth, GA highway apparently caused over $1700.00 in damage to a local woman’s car. She had to take the car to a repair shop to have the tape removed, and then needed to return to the shop for a major repair caused by the […]
When people ask me what gaffers tape is like, I usually start the description by telling them it is a cotton cloth tape made from a material similar to a pair of khaki pants. Apparently, General Pants, a clothing retailer, thinks that gaffers tape makes a great shirt too! Click here to read more about […]
The master of the “prepared” piano, Hauschka, stuffs a grand piano with ping pong balls and gaffers tape on his most recent album, Foreign Landscapes, to create buzzing percussive sounds. Hauschka is known for taking the work of composer Erik Satie and giving it a twenty first century spin by adding material to a piano […]
The exectutive producer of American Idol was reduced to using gaffers tape to cover Steven Tyler’s mouth after the Aerosmith lead singer dropped the “F Bomb” on live tv while describing the performance of on of the contestants. Nigel Lythgoe, along with a number of other Fox network execs, was forced to run an apology […]
The owner of a 1958 Piper Cub on a fishing trip in Alaska failed to clean the aroma of salmon from his airplane and a passing grizzly decided to use his claws on the plane like a canopener. Three cases of duct tape later and the fisherman was cruising home with his catch. Read […]
Adam Carolla explains how gaffers tape is used to make product logos disappear in reality tv shows. “On reality shows, to hide any kind of logo (like the Nike swoosh), they just cover it with black gaffer’s tape, and it bugs the crap out of Adam. Adam suggests maybe using CGI to get that out, a […]