and hanging.
if you hang someone from too high a height, you can rip their head off. Too short a height, you don't break the neck and they choke to death. There's a mathematical formula for the ideal length of rope for your height and weight. I'll find it at some point. WHAT?! I like to be well researched...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:02, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Surely too short a height
And they just end up standing on the ground? Which would just be embarrassing for all concerned.
think you meant too much/too little slack /pedant
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:03, Reply)

That would be fun to watch though.
The prisoner could be released with a "don't do it again" and a thick ear.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:06, Reply)

Possibly a myth
But they apparently had to change the sentence from "Hanged" to "Hanged from the neck until dead", as someone got them to stop when someone was choking, and said that the sentence had been carried out, so let him go.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:08, Reply)

Bastard party pooper.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:10, Reply)

They used to let you go if the trapdoor failed 3 times
(since it was deemed to be an act of God)
Meaning that if you could get hanged after a storm, you had a better chance of survival due to the wood swelling from the moisture.*

*may not be true, only half remembered, probably apocryphal anyway
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:08, Reply)

too short a drop then?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:15, Reply)

Don't you just shit yourself when hanged?
Unless you had a stiffy to start off with.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:05, Reply)

Look up auto-erotic asphyxiation
But not at work.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:08, Reply)

I think not, even at home.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:10, Reply)

I'm sure I read this in Going Postal...

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:06, Reply)

I watched the tv thing the other day
not bad
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:07, Reply)

I was home just before it was on
Had the option of watching the first part and waiting 2 weeks for the rest, or just watching it after uni (no sky here :( ), so not seen it yet
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:09, Reply)

it's worth a watch
the woman who plays Adora Belle is rather attractive in a stern sort of way.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 15:11, Reply)