Are chess pieces all that dangerous?

I'm watching MSNBC right now, and an inmate is mad because he likes to play corespondence chess, but the warden took his chess pieces when he saw them, and says he can't have them back.

Maybe the Queen has other uses...?

I would imagine that would be painful. 

Your own name conjures up some awkward ideas when used in that context..

EDIT: By the way, I've seen that episode. I believe its on "Lockup"

LOLZ!!!

I guess you might have to start out with a pawn... and then promote it.

 Oh my, this thread is awfully nasty...

Now there's a guy into feet, you might like. 

What was the question?

Come to think of it, I don't know!

The guy must have been playing with a 4 inch king staunton set. 

Surprisingly so: injury & chess-injuries2.

there must have been some whittling involved?

 That dude was nuts.

I ate a chess piece as a kid when I was first learning to play. They're only dangerous if you're dangerous! And I'm a kobold who lives a live of danger... (do do do).

It would suck to lose correspondence chess in that situation but ...the pointy end of a bishop slammed into someone's temple, the king's cross used to puncture a trachea, pawns used as projectiles, these could be dangerous.

Anything can be dangerous if you're creative enough. Kinda like chess ;). That pawn from the beginning might just be a killer :P

See! It's subliminally instructing violent tendencies rather than rehabilitating them. Take those pieces away.

Inmates in supermax look at the parts that make up a table and see a knife, a dagger, a spear, a place to conceal things, I look at the parts of a table and see table legs, a table top... etc. Some things those inmates think about are hard to comprehend for us, they do have plenty of time to think about things remember.

I think I watched this episode too and I believe his Chess pieces were withdrawn because of bad behaviour.

I guess he needs to go to the hobby shop, and make himself some soft rubber ones.