"What are you going to do, lob a stone at me from 300m away?" shouted the man on the parapet, moments before impact.
avadodin 51 minutes ago [-]
"Let me show you its features".
paxcoder 5 hours ago [-]
I hate this meme. Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool". And the other person still decides to use lethal force. That is diabolical, not funny.
WelkinFolk 3 hours ago [-]
Diabolically funny, you mean.
bluefirebrand 3 hours ago [-]
> Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool".
That strikes me as a wildly incorrect interpretation of the situation in the meme.
My reading is closer to a man on a parapet shouting "neener neener you can't touch me" moments before being touched by a rock at high velocity
lazide 3 hours ago [-]
Yup, my favorite is the ‘what are you going to do, stab me? -stabbed man’ quote from the news interview hah.
King-Aaron 2 hours ago [-]
I think it was American Gangster that had the line "what are you going to do, shoot me in front of everyone?", right before he gets shot in front of everyone. That's a good one.
foxglacier 2 hours ago [-]
I read an account of exactly that happening to the natives in my country 200 years ago. A group paddled up the river in their canoe and the local tribesmen who were clearly more powerful taunted them. But the natives in the canoe had newly discovered guns and shot the taunters until they were "tired of man-killing" and went home. It seemed to be purely hunting humans for fun. And yes, it was horrible, that was part of a wave of wars that decimates the whole country and cost them their sovereignty.
Levitating 2 hours ago [-]
"...uncovered the graves of nine skeletons dated to the early 1300s. Five, including Skeleton 150, dated to the 1300s."
That seems like a contradiction.
43 minutes ago [-]
normie3000 1 hours ago [-]
I hate to contradict you, but it seems like a tautology.
CTDOCodebases 1 hours ago [-]
Trebuchets were used in the Syrian civil war (2011-2024).
I would link a video but I don't think that is a wise idea for legal reasons. There were so many parties in that war and I'm not sure which ones were declared terrorist organizations.
Can we? That Wikipedia page is inconclusive, and thus article says:
During Edward I’s 1304 siege of the castle, English forces deployed the recently invented trebuchet, a weapon first documented in the 12th century. A cousin to the catapult, trebuchets were capable of hurling boulders weighing more than 100 kilograms hundreds of meters. One at Stirling, dubbed “War Wolf,” “was the biggest trebuchet ever built at that point,” Buckberry says. Eyewitness accounts confirm the giant siege engine was used during the 1304 battle, tearing through two stone walls “as an arrow would fly through a piece of cloth.”
Accounts of the battle don’t mention any trebuchet casualties. But Buckberry says Skeleton 150’s injuries strongly suggest at least one defender was hit from behind by a flying boulder, launched by War Wolf or one of the other siege engines arrayed outside Stirling Castle’s walls. “It’s a huge amount of energy delivered in milliseconds,” Waltenberger says. “In skeletons from past times you rarely see this.”
b3ing 4 hours ago [-]
Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing
Swizec 2 hours ago [-]
> Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing
from the article: “skull broken in 61 places”
Doubt you’d stay conscious long enough to notice
kevin_thibedeau 3 hours ago [-]
Instant unconsciousness. Hopefully he didn't wake up.
shevy-java 2 hours ago [-]
How do you know that? Is it confirmed that this led to instant unconsciousness?
margalabargala 2 hours ago [-]
The skull was found in 61 pieces, which is above the limit for quantity of pieces your skull can shatter into from blunt force while remaining alive.
euroderf 33 minutes ago [-]
OT but... This reminds me of a classic Esquire Dubious Achievements Awards headline from the 1980s, "Man Drills 22 Holes in Head and Lives".
It went on to tell how a man had committed suicide by drilling 23 holes in his head.
While this death may be the first confirmed from a trebuchet,
is that really the first death by a trebuchet? Plus, I'd say
catapults are almost identical to a trebuchet in workings, for
the most part. I don't quite believe that this was really the
first death by catapult.
pfdietz 27 minutes ago [-]
Catapults store energy using elastic deformation, like a bow; counterweight trebuchets store energy using gravity.
nephihaha 43 minutes ago [-]
Didn't the Romans have something similar?
s20n 2 hours ago [-]
first confirmed case of MLG noscope
27183 5 hours ago [-]
dude got absolutely rocked
xprnio 4 hours ago [-]
What do you expect - it came in like a wrecking ball
kouunji 4 hours ago [-]
Didn’t feel it though, cuz he was stoned.
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That strikes me as a wildly incorrect interpretation of the situation in the meme.
My reading is closer to a man on a parapet shouting "neener neener you can't touch me" moments before being touched by a rock at high velocity
That seems like a contradiction.
I would link a video but I don't think that is a wise idea for legal reasons. There were so many parties in that war and I'm not sure which ones were declared terrorist organizations.
We can rule out Warwolf [1] my favorite trebuchet, which never killed anyone.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf
Can we? That Wikipedia page is inconclusive, and thus article says:
During Edward I’s 1304 siege of the castle, English forces deployed the recently invented trebuchet, a weapon first documented in the 12th century. A cousin to the catapult, trebuchets were capable of hurling boulders weighing more than 100 kilograms hundreds of meters. One at Stirling, dubbed “War Wolf,” “was the biggest trebuchet ever built at that point,” Buckberry says. Eyewitness accounts confirm the giant siege engine was used during the 1304 battle, tearing through two stone walls “as an arrow would fly through a piece of cloth.”
Accounts of the battle don’t mention any trebuchet casualties. But Buckberry says Skeleton 150’s injuries strongly suggest at least one defender was hit from behind by a flying boulder, launched by War Wolf or one of the other siege engines arrayed outside Stirling Castle’s walls. “It’s a huge amount of energy delivered in milliseconds,” Waltenberger says. “In skeletons from past times you rarely see this.”
from the article: “skull broken in 61 places”
Doubt you’d stay conscious long enough to notice
It went on to tell how a man had committed suicide by drilling 23 holes in his head.
From 1935. And he was not the first one to point that out either.
I actually think that thanks to the internet, we expose many more criminal build ups towards warfare nowadays than before.
[1] - https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/eisenhower001.asp
While this death may be the first confirmed from a trebuchet, is that really the first death by a trebuchet? Plus, I'd say catapults are almost identical to a trebuchet in workings, for the most part. I don't quite believe that this was really the first death by catapult.