Electric shock

[sparkie710]

i know we do but shouldnt get lil tingles where we getcomplacent or it gets late, but if you held onto tails at the board i understand you wont be able to let go so how long will it take before that took your life ? seeinghow theres no protection ? regards

 

[Knobhead]

Topsy an elephant was poisoned and electrocuted, because she had killed three people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayintech_0104

 

[oxocube]

the chap who was trying to push this form of execution forward (back in the 1890s) was experimenting on dogs and cattle.............

What sort of crimes had they commited?

 

[Rockingit]

I think my sympathies have to be with the bloke who they tried to electrocute, failed, eventually died in the morgue but then decided to re-electrocute his known dead corpse just because they felt they had to.

Americans are a little strange like that.

Hey - I'm sat here trying to write a massive tender that's due in tomorrow - will you PLEASE stop distracting me with interesting diversions??!!

 

[telectrix]

and also back over here, in hartlepool a monkey was hanged for spying for the frogs.

 

[trev]

Slightly off topic I know but...
While on holiday in Florida a couple of years ago we went to a police museum before going we were told that it housed the chair in which Ted Bundy and many others met their end. Full of bravado I said to my wife and kids that I was going to sit in it and that I wanted a photo however when we got there I got to within about 6 feet of it and my flesh began to crawl so I bottled out.
I know, I'm a coward but it just felt wrong

 

[oxocube]

I think my sympathies have to be with the bloke who they tried to electrocute, failed, eventually died in the morgue but then decided to re-electrocute his known dead corpse just because they felt they had to.

Americans are a little strange like that.

Nah, us brits are a lot stranger, Oliver Cromwell died from medical problems and was given a lavish funeral and was buried at Westminster Abbey. Three years later the new monarchy had him dug up so they could have a posthumous execution and he was hung in chains. Then they chopped his head off and stuck it in a pole outside Westminster Hall, where it remained for 24 years.

Now that is seriously strange. lol.

 

[rocket ron]

Electric chairs topic
My mate was told to do some maintainace on one of those chairs but refused, reckoned it was a death trap and liable to kill someone at any time.

 

[sparky3366]

and also back over here, in hartlepool a monkey was hanged for spying for the frogs.

And here was me thinking I was the only monkey hanger on here...lol