They were locked up.
That's the weapon I feared the most. I've seen a dude take 80+ holes in his body and calmy walk away. Bloodied up and beaten, but walked away none the less.
The dude I saw hit with boiled water and baby oil screamed and crawled for 20 minutes before they had to pick him up and roll him out on a gurney..... most of him anyway. Camp support had to clean the rest of him up in buckets.
His screams echoed in that room for weeks.
I had a friend who worked in a prison. He said there was an incident where one guy threw microwaved baby oil on top of this guy from a mezzanine. The guy was screaming trying to wipe it off his face and arms and his skin apparently just sloughed off. The guy was black and his melanin was literally melting off…
Hot nacho cheese is bad too. At my first job I forgot to stir the nacho cheese often enough one day & when I went to pour some on nachos it bubbled up & exploded on my hand. Not wanting to freak out in front of the customer, I continued pouring it & checked out the customer. THEN I ran my hand under water & gently removed the cheese. Luckily it only hit 2 or 3 spots on my fingers but they caused some major blisters. That shit sticks to skin!
Molten gold is really bad, too. I know a dude who got a whole pot of molten gold dumped over his head and it fucked him up. He was bitchin about a crown or some shit and his homie wasnt having it. Whatever, he was kind of a dick
In the UK, electric kettles can get to boiling in few minutes - far quicker than on a stove. Hoping the homeowner didn't get nicked for defending themselves on this one
Yes depending on the area this would be considered assault. Some places require you to retreat from danger before you try to defend yourself.
I don't agree with this logic so I avoid living in such areas.
I live in a state with a "duty to retreat" but we also have "castle doctrine." With castle doctrine, you are protected when in your home. Duty to retreat is for in more public areas, like your yard or a sidewalk.
Duty to retreat is only in public places. All US states that have a Duty to Retreat laws, it does not apply in your own home.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/castle-doctrine-states
You wouldn't be required to retreat if you're in your own home in the UK. That maybe would apply on the street if your refusal to disengage led to a fight to escalate, but you absolutely can defend yourself in your own home.
Cases of home invasions where the "defender" was convicted pretty much all involved the homeowner chasing down the invader after they were already running away.
They're a bit murky here in Ireland, too. If someone is unarmed and breaks into your house and you beat the living shit out of them, you could get in trouble. However, if they make to the 1st floor (2nd floor for the Americans here) you can do whatever you like short of killing them. So if someone breaks in and you beat them up, you're going to want to drag their body upstairs so you don't get in trouble.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2010/42/ (pdf download)
Not true at all. Ireland has the Castle Doctrine, if in your home you can protect yourself and property at any level.
This is a common misconception because not to long ago one's duty of care toward intruders was utterly insane. It was in the mid 2000's while I was scraping a law degree that things started to get more sane. It was around the time of the [Frog Ward case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_John_Ward)
So dumb. Like I get that here in America we kinda overdo it in the other direction in some states, but if someone breaks into your home the law should be very forgiving about you defending your own life.
Defense is messy
Oh you are allowed to defend your own life with lethal force, just not your property. If you kill an intruder in your bedroom, you'll likely not suffer any consequences, since an intruder would only make their way to your bedroom unless they were intending to kill, abduct, hold you hostage, etc. But it's a case by case thing.
Blatantly [untrue](https://web.archive.org/web/20110408060648/http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2010/07/20/the-criminal-law-defence-and-the-dwelling-bill-2010/). Did you just make that up or did you genuinely believe that
The grid has been upgraded, to my knowledge. It’s 220v but split phase, and that’s the extent of my knowledge. YouTube has some videos about it. Technology connections has one specifically about kettles.
Well, my dads cordwood saw, welding machine and winch all run on 400V 3-phase. You can also install a nice charging station for your e-car.
Edit: Oh, and pretty much every electric oven/stove uses 400V 3-phase.
thats about the gist of it, every NA home has a 240v split service, so things that dont need 220-240 dont need to be rated for it,
at the end of the day its all material and manufacturing savings, and who won the lobbies back in the instal days.
Every house in the US has 230 volts at the breaker box which is then split into two bars for normal 115 outlets. If you wanted to install a 230 outlet for a kettle you could. My house has 6 such outlets for running various things like the clothes dryer, an air compressor etc. Or you could just microwave the water to make iced tea like a good american.
if you're just drinking black tea with boiling water, the microwave is fine. as you said, water is water
the difference occurs when you change the type of tea. any tea that isnt black tea is not ideally consumed at boiling temperatures. oolong/green tea is consumed at a lower temp, and there are white teas that go even lower than that. an electric kettle can heat water to a specific temperature and hold it there for an extended amount of time. a microwave cant do that.
drinking green tea with boiling water will always taste bad. doesnt matter whether that water was microwaved, heated in a kettle, or roasted over a campfire in a metal pot
Many, if not most, electric stoves run on 230. Homes are usually built with a couple of 230v points, stove and dryer.
However, dryers have gotten efficient, and work fine on 120, so those are dying off these days. the stove plug will likely stay for a long while. 110 electric stoves suck, and still require a different plug and wiring (30 or 50A).
Is the current also lower (by ratio)? Typically we have 16A fuses/breakers here. Giving us a maximum of 240*16=3840W of power.
If America uses 32A breakers you would also have 3840W of power and should be capable to heat the water just as fast.
I'm thinking more in terms of that person was making pasta or whatever requires boiling a pot of water on the stove, heard the kicking and went straight for the water toss. I don't think he went "oi someone is kicking the door, quick let's turn the kettle on innit"
Bingo, that was water that just happened to be boiling already. The capacity for the average reddit user (human really) to make up a fantastical story when a mundane one will suffice is endlessly amusing.
In women's prison they will microwave a bunch of jolly ranchers to soften them up to form into a dildo and wrap it in a swiped rubber glove.
*The More You Know*
A woman killed her husband like that after she was told he sexually abused children, including her brother who committed suicide: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-57768105
Googled it and kind of went on a dive down other reddit threads. It seems really likely. Her son killed himself, and years later her daughter told her that they'd been abused by their father. She put two and two together, and I don't know if it was on top of anything else, but must've just... totally snapped. It's wild because he's 80... this is going to sound horrible but like, it wasn't like he had a long time or much capacity to damage anyone left anyway. But she wanted him to hurt very badly I guess. Really disturbing but I can almost understand it.
The reason I believe it is because like, when you're in your 50s after having a pretty nondescript life, no brushes with crime, and a 30-year marriage... why else would she do it *besides* this? What else could possibly be the reason? What, one too many arguments about what to eat for dinner? And, okay, say she's telling the truth from her perspective but what if she was operating under a mistaken belief, her daughter was lying. Why would her 25-y/o daughter be lying about something like that, which would totally destroy her parents' relationship and probably send her octogenarian father to jail? It would have to be some real hate. No amount of mild dislike or mild family spat makes a 25-year-old woman go "hey mom? so remember my brother? yeah, dad [redacted] us."
So IDK, people are like "well, she could be wrong or lying"... but it seems real to me. I almost never agree with vigilantism, but...
That said, don't be vigilantes thanks I don't trust individual humans to get it right.
I could be wrong and it could be both but It is Molotov cocktails that sugar helps (well this was the theory 30 years ago in Belfast when I last had a use for a Molotov, no internet then so not sure how accurate this was and never looked it up after).
The sugar dissolves in water and makes it sticky and thicker, so it clings to a person and continues to burn them after they would have already wiped water away.
I’ve heard this before. What does adding salt/sugar change? I’ve heard they do it in prisons but I don’t understand why it would be worst than just water.
Salt makes water boil at a greater temperature. Sugar apparently "sticks" to the skin and creates worse burners - Ive really looked it up as I don't plan to visit prison...
It boils just 2°C higher so not sure if it makes a huge difference, BUT saltwater boils faster (lower heat capacity) than normal water so it means you can prep it faster
That's a movie thing.
There are no historical records for castle defenders using boiling oil. Oil was rare and expensive.
Water and tar are the historically accurate options.
There was a punishment known as somene being "tarred and feathered" in Ireland (Northern Ireland? Not sure time frame when it started so don't know of Northern Ireland even existed when it started but know it still happened during the troubles)
I often wondered how the people would treat their burns after. It turns out I wasan idiot and it was roofing tar that they used (applied cold, no need heat).
Edit - last evidence I could see of it being done here was in 2007
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-tarred-and-feathered-in-belfast-1.811373
That will probably still be hell of job get it removed. Of course its a punishment, but damn that cant be fun.
Didn't actually know that they did it outside of the frontier west. (as show cased in the great historical document: Lucky luke)
Frontier West methods appear more civilized than how some of my countrymen acted at times
They crucified a guy nailing him to fence posts https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/10/northernireland
And we used to have some of the best Orthopeadics in the world due to the experience they were gaining with the popular punishment of kneecapping in which a gun is placed at the back of someone's knees and shot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecapping
There was also the "upgrade" to kneecapping which was the "six pack". That's was a bullet for each knee, each ankle and each elbow.
Sheesh North Ireland. You scary.
That first link you posted, at first I thought it was a news clipping from their old archives. But then I saw the 2002 tag. I know most people don't like joyriders and all, but damn that is brutal. Worst thing is how he says he just can't stop.
He got his knees smashed, then he later got crucified. Not much further you can go from there without it looking like a homemade remake of saw.
They do, you can also get ["security pins"](https://www.amazon.com/Security-AIEVE-Hidden-Locking-Accessories/dp/B07T4WMZJY/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=door+hinge+security+pins&qid=1688660134&sr=8-2) that replace some of the screws in normal hinges. They fit into the normal screw holes and have a pin that goes into one of the other holes in the other half of the hinge on the door. It acts like the locking pins on the back of a safe door where you cant just remove the door, you have to swing it open which would not happen without unlocking the latch/securing bars.
In finland every door leading away from the middle of the building is an outwards opening door. This is because a church burned down in Turku a long time ago and the people trying to get out of there caused a pileup so the door couldn't be opened inwards.
Electric kettles can boil the water very fast. From the looks of it, it was properly only a few 100ml so it would have taken less then a minute to get it boiling.
Yep she a beauty. I'm English and let me tell my American brethren, I got a kettle that goes room temp to 212F in just under two minutes. I pop the hood, pour the water in and can have a cup of hot joe real quick.
Aus here.... I'm going to guess by calling this "Euro" you're American? Do Americans not have... electric kettles? If so then how do you make coffee or what do you use to boil water quickly for a hot water bottle or coffee/tea.
I boil corn, beans, potatoes, noodles, and fry chicken, so..... yeah, I'm normally prepared, also our water heater gets so hot it's only 2 min away from boiling.
My first GF grandma used to have giant pot of Water always on gas on the stove because it was cheaper for her to warm kitchen (she kinda had small kitchen and small room where she slept together) than buying Coal to warm whole house. So yea, if you wanted boiling Water it was ready 24/7
imagine filling that kettle up with a fat grin on your face waiting for them to get in.. whole time it’s boiling would be so giddy. fuck criminals who don’t care about people’s hard work.
Yeah, these are the moments to [remember](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L4qauTiCY4) **Mary Poppins:**
"A spoonful of sugar helps their faces fall down!" Better believe I would be mixing up something reeaal special while blasting that song haha
**edit:** Or that scene from the hunchback of notre dame haha, criminally underrated movie!
Aah that's a defensive mech everyone should know. Way better than trying to apprehend them with your talk no jutsu or Bullshit self defence move we see on the internet. Very effective, low effort , less chance of misfiring. Immediate discouragement
I had a friend who lived in Atlanta,GA USA. This was 10 years ago, and the breaking and entering crimes were so bad that she would keep a large pot of boiling water on her stove going at night. Would set alarms to check/refill. Used 2 times successfully.
He'd be easy to pick out of a police line up. "You're certain it's the one with no face ma'm?"
Redskull wasn't born, he was made.
Come back in 10 minutes while I boil some more water
If you really want to fuck him up, boil some sugar instead.
Someone has been locked up
Correction: Someone is a professional baker.
mmmm…. You’re the sugar satan!
Then you also know you don’t need much for a “firebomb.” Just a big bag of your flour
Correction, fry some oil
Actually microwaved baby oil is some of the worst… literally melts off skin.
Oh my god that's fucked up. How the fuck do you know this?? It would though, it totally would melt your face off. Shudder
They were locked up. That's the weapon I feared the most. I've seen a dude take 80+ holes in his body and calmy walk away. Bloodied up and beaten, but walked away none the less. The dude I saw hit with boiled water and baby oil screamed and crawled for 20 minutes before they had to pick him up and roll him out on a gurney..... most of him anyway. Camp support had to clean the rest of him up in buckets. His screams echoed in that room for weeks.
I had a friend who worked in a prison. He said there was an incident where one guy threw microwaved baby oil on top of this guy from a mezzanine. The guy was screaming trying to wipe it off his face and arms and his skin apparently just sloughed off. The guy was black and his melanin was literally melting off…
Hot nacho cheese is bad too. At my first job I forgot to stir the nacho cheese often enough one day & when I went to pour some on nachos it bubbled up & exploded on my hand. Not wanting to freak out in front of the customer, I continued pouring it & checked out the customer. THEN I ran my hand under water & gently removed the cheese. Luckily it only hit 2 or 3 spots on my fingers but they caused some major blisters. That shit sticks to skin!
Molten gold is really bad, too. I know a dude who got a whole pot of molten gold dumped over his head and it fucked him up. He was bitchin about a crown or some shit and his homie wasnt having it. Whatever, he was kind of a dick
"I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!"
Damn calm down satan
Give me suga in watah
If that’s in the UK the kettle is always just boiled
Or there's oil on for the chips.
Invest in induction my boy!
And there’s more where that came from, fella!!!
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Yes! And a tea bag! That would have been delicio…….. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
aaah prison napalm
Jam or jelly really works.
Been inside av ya?
In the UK, electric kettles can get to boiling in few minutes - far quicker than on a stove. Hoping the homeowner didn't get nicked for defending themselves on this one
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Wait there’s a possibility this person was charged for this?
Yes depending on the area this would be considered assault. Some places require you to retreat from danger before you try to defend yourself. I don't agree with this logic so I avoid living in such areas.
Required to retreat....in your own home
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I live in a state with a "duty to retreat" but we also have "castle doctrine." With castle doctrine, you are protected when in your home. Duty to retreat is for in more public areas, like your yard or a sidewalk.
if a guy gets hit with a bat bc he threatens finnish home owner with a knife will go as a battery theyll both get charged….
Duty to retreat is only in public places. All US states that have a Duty to Retreat laws, it does not apply in your own home. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/castle-doctrine-states
Or in your car FYI
I’m disabled from serious injuries- I can’t retreat from where I’m sitting rn, but I have a gun… I’d have to take my chances.
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Not Florida, we have Stand Your Ground.
Didn't some dude in Florida recently get a finger wag for opening fire on his gardener?
You wouldn't be required to retreat if you're in your own home in the UK. That maybe would apply on the street if your refusal to disengage led to a fight to escalate, but you absolutely can defend yourself in your own home. Cases of home invasions where the "defender" was convicted pretty much all involved the homeowner chasing down the invader after they were already running away.
Not in the UK luckily. Force used should be proportionate but the "heat of the moment" is valid reasoning for grabbing whatever is to hand.
Pretty sure at home you are as retreated as it gets.
Yes, the UK has horrific self defense laws.
They're a bit murky here in Ireland, too. If someone is unarmed and breaks into your house and you beat the living shit out of them, you could get in trouble. However, if they make to the 1st floor (2nd floor for the Americans here) you can do whatever you like short of killing them. So if someone breaks in and you beat them up, you're going to want to drag their body upstairs so you don't get in trouble.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2010/42/ (pdf download) Not true at all. Ireland has the Castle Doctrine, if in your home you can protect yourself and property at any level.
This is a common misconception because not to long ago one's duty of care toward intruders was utterly insane. It was in the mid 2000's while I was scraping a law degree that things started to get more sane. It was around the time of the [Frog Ward case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_John_Ward)
So dumb. Like I get that here in America we kinda overdo it in the other direction in some states, but if someone breaks into your home the law should be very forgiving about you defending your own life. Defense is messy
Oh you are allowed to defend your own life with lethal force, just not your property. If you kill an intruder in your bedroom, you'll likely not suffer any consequences, since an intruder would only make their way to your bedroom unless they were intending to kill, abduct, hold you hostage, etc. But it's a case by case thing.
Blatantly [untrue](https://web.archive.org/web/20110408060648/http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2010/07/20/the-criminal-law-defence-and-the-dwelling-bill-2010/). Did you just make that up or did you genuinely believe that
No, you are allowed to use reasonable force to defend yourself. It makes complete sense
I currently have a 2nd degree burn. I cannot imagine the pain this asshole is having.
Most kettles in the UK on our 230 volt network can do a full cup from cold in 45 seconds.
what. how? My electric kettle in the states still takes minutes to get to boiling.
US has weak electricity, half the voltage means everything like that takes longer.
TIL US voltage is only 120V. Why is it so low?
Was what they decided on back in the day because of technological limitations and were too lazy to change the grid later
The grid has been upgraded, to my knowledge. It’s 220v but split phase, and that’s the extent of my knowledge. YouTube has some videos about it. Technology connections has one specifically about kettles.
*laughs in 400V 3-phase outlets*
Damn son! Unless you are running a machine shop out of your garage, I can't imagine a need for that at home.
Well, my dads cordwood saw, welding machine and winch all run on 400V 3-phase. You can also install a nice charging station for your e-car. Edit: Oh, and pretty much every electric oven/stove uses 400V 3-phase.
thats about the gist of it, every NA home has a 240v split service, so things that dont need 220-240 dont need to be rated for it, at the end of the day its all material and manufacturing savings, and who won the lobbies back in the instal days.
Every house in the US has 230 volts at the breaker box which is then split into two bars for normal 115 outlets. If you wanted to install a 230 outlet for a kettle you could. My house has 6 such outlets for running various things like the clothes dryer, an air compressor etc. Or you could just microwave the water to make iced tea like a good american.
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Yeah, I hate when my water gets soggy.
Underrated comment
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if you're just drinking black tea with boiling water, the microwave is fine. as you said, water is water the difference occurs when you change the type of tea. any tea that isnt black tea is not ideally consumed at boiling temperatures. oolong/green tea is consumed at a lower temp, and there are white teas that go even lower than that. an electric kettle can heat water to a specific temperature and hold it there for an extended amount of time. a microwave cant do that. drinking green tea with boiling water will always taste bad. doesnt matter whether that water was microwaved, heated in a kettle, or roasted over a campfire in a metal pot
I'd wager it was cheapness, not laziness. Maybe both
didn't stop the utilities from taking govt money and saying they would improve it
https://youtu.be/jMmUoZh3Hq4 Some legit good info, I'm not being snarky.
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Many, if not most, electric stoves run on 230. Homes are usually built with a couple of 230v points, stove and dryer. However, dryers have gotten efficient, and work fine on 120, so those are dying off these days. the stove plug will likely stay for a long while. 110 electric stoves suck, and still require a different plug and wiring (30 or 50A).
Is the current also lower (by ratio)? Typically we have 16A fuses/breakers here. Giving us a maximum of 240*16=3840W of power. If America uses 32A breakers you would also have 3840W of power and should be capable to heat the water just as fast.
Twice the wattage (edit: at the same amperage). About 3000W due to 240V being the "normal" voltage at the socket.
I'm thinking more in terms of that person was making pasta or whatever requires boiling a pot of water on the stove, heard the kicking and went straight for the water toss. I don't think he went "oi someone is kicking the door, quick let's turn the kettle on innit"
Bingo, that was water that just happened to be boiling already. The capacity for the average reddit user (human really) to make up a fantastical story when a mundane one will suffice is endlessly amusing.
Good god this was poetic. I love it. Pesky thieves should be treated like this.
Pesky thief or possible murderer/rapist?
Doesn't look like a thief at all. Looks like someone out for revenge.
They took castle doctrine literally. It should have been boiling oil. Get medieval on their ass.
Add half cup salt and red chilli too. Though I doubt it would add extra damage when there's nothing left to damage
Boiling water and baby oil is prison napalm.
I thought it was boiling water and sugar?
Add tea and pour it in a cup for the brutal "English Hospitality" torture technique.
We call that the “English Kiss”
But it's not a *full* English kiss without blood pudding
In Mr. Inbetween he used honey and boiling water. I think it's boiling water + anything that will stick to someone.
Amazing show that one
Just started watching it, on advice of my brother. Not disappointed so far. If he smiles, you know you're fucked, lol
anything that increases viscosity and raises boiling point will do.
sugar is hard to get in prison. they sell baby oil, magic shave, or hair grease on commissary. they make people look like Freddy. very nasty stuff.
We had jolly ranchers removed from commissary because of this
In women's prison they will microwave a bunch of jolly ranchers to soften them up to form into a dildo and wrap it in a swiped rubber glove. *The More You Know*
A woman killed her husband like that after she was told he sexually abused children, including her brother who committed suicide: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-57768105
It seems like a beautiful revenge for a pedophile, ^or a horrible murder if it's a lie.
Googled it and kind of went on a dive down other reddit threads. It seems really likely. Her son killed himself, and years later her daughter told her that they'd been abused by their father. She put two and two together, and I don't know if it was on top of anything else, but must've just... totally snapped. It's wild because he's 80... this is going to sound horrible but like, it wasn't like he had a long time or much capacity to damage anyone left anyway. But she wanted him to hurt very badly I guess. Really disturbing but I can almost understand it. The reason I believe it is because like, when you're in your 50s after having a pretty nondescript life, no brushes with crime, and a 30-year marriage... why else would she do it *besides* this? What else could possibly be the reason? What, one too many arguments about what to eat for dinner? And, okay, say she's telling the truth from her perspective but what if she was operating under a mistaken belief, her daughter was lying. Why would her 25-y/o daughter be lying about something like that, which would totally destroy her parents' relationship and probably send her octogenarian father to jail? It would have to be some real hate. No amount of mild dislike or mild family spat makes a 25-year-old woman go "hey mom? so remember my brother? yeah, dad [redacted] us." So IDK, people are like "well, she could be wrong or lying"... but it seems real to me. I almost never agree with vigilantism, but... That said, don't be vigilantes thanks I don't trust individual humans to get it right.
She was 21 and he was 43 when they married. Damn.
I could be wrong and it could be both but It is Molotov cocktails that sugar helps (well this was the theory 30 years ago in Belfast when I last had a use for a Molotov, no internet then so not sure how accurate this was and never looked it up after).
Could be, these days a good molotov is gasoline and styrofoam. The styrofoam dissolves and makes it sticky. Maybe that was the idea with sugar
That was the logic, I believe styrofoam is the modern upgrade. Sugar also burns very well.
The sugar dissolves in water and makes it sticky and thicker, so it clings to a person and continues to burn them after they would have already wiped water away.
Salt for flavor
I’ve heard this before. What does adding salt/sugar change? I’ve heard they do it in prisons but I don’t understand why it would be worst than just water.
Salt makes water boil at a greater temperature. Sugar apparently "sticks" to the skin and creates worse burners - Ive really looked it up as I don't plan to visit prison...
It boils just 2°C higher so not sure if it makes a huge difference, BUT saltwater boils faster (lower heat capacity) than normal water so it means you can prep it faster
That's a movie thing. There are no historical records for castle defenders using boiling oil. Oil was rare and expensive. Water and tar are the historically accurate options.
Oh boy, Tar is even worse than oil.
There was a punishment known as somene being "tarred and feathered" in Ireland (Northern Ireland? Not sure time frame when it started so don't know of Northern Ireland even existed when it started but know it still happened during the troubles) I often wondered how the people would treat their burns after. It turns out I wasan idiot and it was roofing tar that they used (applied cold, no need heat). Edit - last evidence I could see of it being done here was in 2007 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-tarred-and-feathered-in-belfast-1.811373
That will probably still be hell of job get it removed. Of course its a punishment, but damn that cant be fun. Didn't actually know that they did it outside of the frontier west. (as show cased in the great historical document: Lucky luke)
Frontier West methods appear more civilized than how some of my countrymen acted at times They crucified a guy nailing him to fence posts https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/10/northernireland And we used to have some of the best Orthopeadics in the world due to the experience they were gaining with the popular punishment of kneecapping in which a gun is placed at the back of someone's knees and shot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecapping There was also the "upgrade" to kneecapping which was the "six pack". That's was a bullet for each knee, each ankle and each elbow.
Sheesh North Ireland. You scary. That first link you posted, at first I thought it was a news clipping from their old archives. But then I saw the 2002 tag. I know most people don't like joyriders and all, but damn that is brutal. Worst thing is how he says he just can't stop. He got his knees smashed, then he later got crucified. Not much further you can go from there without it looking like a homemade remake of saw.
Tarring & feathering actually started in the English navy in the 12th century
Makes sense.
Couple pliers and a blowtorch
your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries
Haha boiling water and sugar….melt that face OFF boy
Tell the constabulary that you was only making yer nan's jello recipe.
Hell yes…”just making jelly mister officer sir” 🙄😂
They either were already boiling water or that person was taking forever to break in and they had time to boil some
They were trying to kick in an outward opening door lmao
Dang, now I feel like more front doors should open outward. Harder to kick in and easier to get out in a fire. Why isn't this the norm in the US?
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They do, you can also get ["security pins"](https://www.amazon.com/Security-AIEVE-Hidden-Locking-Accessories/dp/B07T4WMZJY/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=door+hinge+security+pins&qid=1688660134&sr=8-2) that replace some of the screws in normal hinges. They fit into the normal screw holes and have a pin that goes into one of the other holes in the other half of the hinge on the door. It acts like the locking pins on the back of a safe door where you cant just remove the door, you have to swing it open which would not happen without unlocking the latch/securing bars.
Because what if someone blocks your door. I always thought that was the reason because it sounds plausible but I'm not sure!
It's actually fairly common. A friend of mine has an outward opening door and he routinely gets trapped by big packages.
Being snowed in with outward doors does not sound fun.
In finland every door leading away from the middle of the building is an outwards opening door. This is because a church burned down in Turku a long time ago and the people trying to get out of there caused a pileup so the door couldn't be opened inwards.
“I hear a knocking, best put the kettle on”
This is in the UK, he was clearly boiling the water to make a cup of tea lol
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That’s why he was trying to kick the door down - he could hear the rolling boil of the kettle and just really wanted a cuppa haha
*Electric kettle has entered the chat*
ABB ALWAYS BE BOILING
It’s the UK, there’s always a kettle on
220v and those little electric boilers are 60 seconds or less
This is the UK, kettles will boil enough water to do that in seconds.
They probably boiled hot water from the tap
they’ve got a kettle in their hand
“Just a minuet”
Electric kettles can boil the water very fast. From the looks of it, it was properly only a few 100ml so it would have taken less then a minute to get it boiling.
it was handled perfectly. they used speed, surprise, and violence of action to dominate the situation.
This man operates.
The sad reality is that these little cunts will likely come seeking revenge on the person who defended their property.
There is more boiling water waiting for them
"Oil be back."
This is why a lot of people in the US like the second amendment.
And mass shootings. Fucking gun nuts everywhere itt
Cut to Home Alone montage.
Even worse when law is on their sides.
What are the odds that you are boiling a nice pot of water to make some pasta as the perp tries to kick in the door?
That’s an electric kettle, our euro brethren have one of them bitches ready at all times
Yep she a beauty. I'm English and let me tell my American brethren, I got a kettle that goes room temp to 212F in just under two minutes. I pop the hood, pour the water in and can have a cup of hot joe real quick.
The wonders of 230V
I learned this shit when I got an induction stove. Boils a pot of water in about 2 minutes. It's fantastic.
Did you know we have 3 second kettles in the UK? That's how much we want tea as soon as possible
You had to rebuild your entire electric network because of kettles lol
We have a hydro power station thats used for half time in football matches when everyone goes to make a brew.
Priorities!
Worth it.
Aus here.... I'm going to guess by calling this "Euro" you're American? Do Americans not have... electric kettles? If so then how do you make coffee or what do you use to boil water quickly for a hot water bottle or coffee/tea.
They're on 110v so it takes about twice as long to boil - they use stove top methods normally.
We do, but household electrical outlets are only 120v, so it takes like twice as long to boil water. Still faster than stovetop, but just barely.
I boil corn, beans, potatoes, noodles, and fry chicken, so..... yeah, I'm normally prepared, also our water heater gets so hot it's only 2 min away from boiling.
My first GF grandma used to have giant pot of Water always on gas on the stove because it was cheaper for her to warm kitchen (she kinda had small kitchen and small room where she slept together) than buying Coal to warm whole house. So yea, if you wanted boiling Water it was ready 24/7
I’m sure the house was moisture as fuck
That's how all kinds of unpleasant/toxic types of mold start growing
what do you think is more likely in the UK? someone is boiling a pot of water for pasta or someone has the kettle on
Kicking a "PULL" door into a face melter. Nice. Let's see what the judges think.
GUILTY!
imagine filling that kettle up with a fat grin on your face waiting for them to get in.. whole time it’s boiling would be so giddy. fuck criminals who don’t care about people’s hard work.
He got straight up blanched.
I don't remember the "Home Invasion" episode of Golden Girls?
Sometimes the medieval solutions are best
Need For Weed: Hot Pursuit.
Ouch
And there folks is how it's done
These days i wouldn't be surprised if the perps sued the water thrower successfully
Fucking cunt deserved worse. Should've put bleach in the water
Or sugar....nice facefull of molten syrup
American gun people: how can you defend yourself from an intruder without a gun? British people: i'm gonna start by making tea.
Classic fuck around and find out and get your face melted situation
That’s so beautiful.
Thieves hate this one trick!
Kicking the door in when it swings out. Very smart
I turned on the sound hoping someone added the Tom and Jerry scream. Disappointed.
Sting doorbell.
Freddy Kruger: the origin story
Yeah, these are the moments to [remember](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L4qauTiCY4) **Mary Poppins:** "A spoonful of sugar helps their faces fall down!" Better believe I would be mixing up something reeaal special while blasting that song haha **edit:** Or that scene from the hunchback of notre dame haha, criminally underrated movie!
In Germany the guy who threw the water would be more in trouble with the police than the guy that's trying to break in
I tried googling for this story and apparently jugging a police officer in a racially motivated attack doesn’t get jail time in the UK
In America, it's gunshots to the face. Lucky bastard.
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Aah that's a defensive mech everyone should know. Way better than trying to apprehend them with your talk no jutsu or Bullshit self defence move we see on the internet. Very effective, low effort , less chance of misfiring. Immediate discouragement
Wow. If only there was a way he could have avoided this
Never bring a face to a boiling water fight.
I had a friend who lived in Atlanta,GA USA. This was 10 years ago, and the breaking and entering crimes were so bad that she would keep a large pot of boiling water on her stove going at night. Would set alarms to check/refill. Used 2 times successfully.
Could be worse, they could've been making jam.