As a rookie police reporter years ago I saw the damage guns, knives, broken bottles, metal pipes, hands — humans — can inflict.
The cafes keep a supply of pipes on hand -- there are more than 50 at the Egyptian Cafe -- and grocery stores along Steinway Street sell hoses for hookah smokers who like to bring their own rather than use the sometimes-worn-out hoses provided by the cafes.
This phenomenon may be due to corroded nature of iron pipes of hand pumps or due to presence of more iron in ground strata bearing the ground water.
Try to unscrew PVC pipes by hand.
If you can't unscrew the pipes by hand, then use a pipe wrench to loosen the connections.
And there is Frank, smiling, with pipe in hand and twinkle in eye.
"What are you dressed up like that for, dear?" her husband asks, looking up from the television, pipe in hand.
And José Bové, the French farmer famous for driving his tractor into McDonald's, spent much of his time hanging around the press room, pipe in hand.
The "How well you look!" and "How unchanged you are!" were soon over, and then the Great Foreigner arrived, pipe in hand and smiling gently.
Construction was everywhere on the grounds, and, incredibly, they were using an electric saw to cut metal pipe for hand railings directly outside our room.
