[ScreamingFist]

Legend! Epic and well done!

[Dysart]

Wow. That’ll learn him.

[Brujo]

... the Bishop of Halberstadt in Germany used the technique to discipline a group of misbehaving nuns.

“Misbehaving nuns”: did they show up on a “Nuns Gone Wild” video?

[Brujo]

The punishment is probably best known, however, from its widespread use in America during the War of Independence in the 1770s, when it was used to punish those accused of loyalty to the British colonial power.

The victim was usually paraded around the streets in a cart as a warning to other would-be traitors.

Since this article is written from the point of view of the British, shouldn't that be would-be loyalists?

[Joe 6-pack]

I wonder if he was dealing black tar heroin. Oh well...those eyebrows will grow back.

[uncbob]

Probably those that did the tarring and feathering had some alcohol in their blood stream

[darkangel82]

LOL!

[rottndog]

"This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society."

But it's OK for the Police and the Government to fail in it's primary duties of protecting the citizenry?

[bert]

John Murtha!!! are you paying attention?

[Charlespg]

Can we do this dhimmis and members of Cair?

[montag813]

I have advocated the return of this for decades. We should drag corrupt politicians out of Congress and judges who release criminals right off the bench and tar and feather them, as we did in a far more civilized era.

[river rat]

"Margaret Ritchie, Northern Ireland's social development minister, said: "This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society."

Bullsquat...

That is PRECISELY how a civilized society should treat criminals in their midst..

[Joan Kerrey]

“This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society.”

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It sure doesn’t bother me.

[familyop]

We should legislate the same punishment for drug dealers here.

[donna]

How did they avoid the CCTV cameras?

[IronJack]

"This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society."

Neither does drug dealing.

[Caipirabob]

Margaret Ritchie, Northern Ireland's social development minister, said: "This kind of behaviour has no place in a civilised society."

She need to be tarred and feathered.

[Caipirabob]

Ping - For your reading amusement.

[PAR35]

Kneecapping - in which a victim's kneecaps were blown out with a shotgun

I thought modern kneecaping involved the use of a Black and Decker drill. Indeed, before that a pistol was used. A shotgun could take off the whole leg, while the purpose of a kneecapping should be short term pain and a long term reminder.

[donna]

From Wikipedia, LOL:

Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was tarred and feathered for alleged acts of depravity against 15 year old Marinda Johnson in February 1832 by the brothers of the victim.