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To: Ken Adams who wrote (156351)12/28/2007 8:41:00 PM
From: Ish  Respond to of 225578
 
<<Well, that would work! I once read about a bb gun that would fire some 5000 bb's at one time, from a pneumatic charge of some kind. >>

I had one of those, looked like a copper wire leaving the barrel.



To: Ken Adams who wrote (156351)12/28/2007 11:40:24 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
I say, if we're gonna do away with the death penalty, make the alternative so miserable the recipient wishes for, and would seek a way, to end his own miserable life. We would take precautions that he wouldn't be able to do that, either.

One of the final scenes of Braveheart comes to mind. The one where they have Mel Gibson splayed out being stretched by some device, and they begin cutting on him. I believe it was drawing and quartering.


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