Weird stuff you find on the internet

bitflipper
 
We've not made a lot of progress. Ohio just executed a man this month using an experimental chemical concoction. It took him 10 minutes to die.

Indeed. One would hope that we'd have evolved beyond that point, but there's still plenty of those worthless scums out there raping and killing women...
 
Oh wait, you meant... Nevermind.

bitflipperThe severed head continued to respond for 25-30 seconds after decapitation.
 

 
I sometimes continue to quiver for longer than that after participating in a thread upstairs!

I swear I once saw a documentary about emergency responders where a paramedic says that when they arrived at the scene of a car crash, one of the victims had been decapitated but had managed to step out of the vehicle, stand up, and was leaning on the door. 
 
Or maybe I just watched too much Tom and Jerry when I was a kid. The memory's there anyhow. 

Thank you for that, Bit - what an awesome web site! :)

As Bauhaus once said in a song ..."... Bela Lugosi's dead."

craigb
You mean weird stuff like THIS? 

I was thinking more like this.

Rain
I once saw a guy being sentenced to death and decapitated, back in Montreal. True Story.
It wasn't pretty.
 
But he came back on stage a few minutes later all dressed in white singing School's Out.

I worked the door at that show in Baton Rouge, early 70s.
 
I went backstage and the roadies  chased me away, didn't want me seeing the trick stuff...

The guillotine was the first attempt at democratic execution.
 
Prior to its invention, if you were poor you would languish for days under all sorts of bizarre tortures until you were finally drawn and quartered.  If you were rich you got beheaded (a relatively better exit)
 
Dr Guillotine invention was proposed so that all would be executed in the same quick manner, rich and poor.  I do not think he ever imagined the assembly line use of it in the French revolution.  
 
Today of course things are much better, if you are poor you get executed and if you are rich and can afford the legal team you get life (or even acquittal...!)
 
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
 
JR

bitflipper
I heard this joke on Prairie Home Companion last week...this is a somewhat abbreviated version.
 
Guy is led to the guillotine, but the mechanism fails, the blade doesn't drop. He is let go. Another guy's turn, same thing happens and he's let go. Third guy is an engineer. Lays down on the machine, looks up and says "hey, I think I see your problem".
 
 

I wish someone could figure out what the problem is with the FSF and fix it

auto_da_fe
The guillotine was the first attempt at democratic execution.
 
Prior to its invention, if you were poor you would languish for days under all sorts of bizarre tortures until you were finally drawn and quartered.  If you were rich you got beheaded (a relatively better exit)
 
Dr Guillotine invention was proposed so that all would be executed in the same quick manner, rich and poor.  I do not think he ever imagined the assembly line use of it in the French revolution.  
 
Today of course things are much better, if you are poor you get executed and if you are rich and can afford the legal team you get life (or even acquittal...!)
 
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
 
JR

 
Was it the Indians who used to execute people by laying their head on a block and having an elephant stamp on it? 

bitflipper
Sounds awfully messy. You'd think the culture that gave us the Kama Sutra would have been a little more inventive.

Like letting the elephant have his way with the condemned using various positions?