You did know that tarring & feathering was usually fatal?
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No, it wasn’t. Not unless the assailant was a special kind of fool who used road tar instead of the customary pitch.
“You did know that tarring & feathering was usually fatal?”
There’s records of plenty of tar & feathering during the American Revolution but not one fatality that I can find.
‘Tar’ then was pine pitch, used to waterproof virtually everything. Nothing like modern asphalt tar.
Most often the tar was applied over the victim’s clothes and was intended to humiliate, not to seriously injure or kill.
YUP; boiling tar and all the chicken feathers that will stick can really put a hurt on an asshole politician.