tan his hide when he's dead
so they tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
and that's it hangin' on the shed.
Posted on 02/03/2023 8:16:41 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
At 8 a.m. in Melbourne this date in 1967, as a moment of silence was observed across Australia, Ronald Ryan was hanged in Pentridge Prison for killing a guard during a prison break. He would be the last man put to death Down Under.
Ryan, a small-time thief, broke out of that selfsame Pentridge Prison’s lower-security districts with fellow-prisoner Peter John Walker late in 1965, prompting a high-profile holiday season manhunt.
Still, with capital punishment fading in Australia — and especially in Victoria, where nobody had hanged since 1951 — even the jury that doomed Ryan thought its sentence was strictly pro forma. Eleven of them later joined nationwide petitions for clemency when Liberal Premier Henry Bolte made plain his intention to let the hanging go forward...
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We could send Paul Ryan.
Joking
You take someone’s life, you forfeit your own...................
I thought the last man hanged Australia was Tom Dooley. But I guess not.
I didn’t even know he was sick!
A day to be mourned in Australia.
The last day they were a civilized country.
Went waltzing Matilda, did he?
That’s kind of what I am thinking.
There are lot of WEF adherents in their government who need to hang for treason.
But that’s true of a lot of places.
Best place to begin reducing the carbon footprint that they are constantly wailing about . . .
Aussies have a weird sense of humor.
My grandfather used to tell a story about billeting in one of those old Victorian houses down under with the high ceilings. Being a country boy and not being able to find the outhouse to take a dump, he did his business in an old sock, tied the end and flung it out the window to a distant field.
Unfortunately, he failed to notice a small hole in the toe and a little bit splattered on the ceiling. When he went to the housekeeper to offer to pay for the cleaning of a brown spot on the high ceiling, the reply was a laugh followed by "Matey, if you can tell me how you managed to $#*+ on the ceiling, you can have the night's billet for free!"
Needless to say, he soon learned about chamber pots.
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