MissileCop
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This just in from Reuters-London
A British widower killed himself with a homemade guillotine exactly two months after his wife's death, a coroner ruled.
The inquest heard that Colin Vincent, from the northern England town of Halifax, built the apparatus outside his home.
He lay under the heavy steel blade and used pliers to cut a retaining wire. A pathologist told the hearing that the 57-year-old's head had been cleanly chopped off.
Being of a curious nature, I just have to wonder what was going through this gentlemans mind as he built his guillotine. Just goes to show you that even with a firearms ban in England, if someone is hell bent on committing suicide, they'll find a way.
"For Sale: 1 Guillotine, 99% finish, used once." Ouch!
[This message has been edited by MissileCop (edited December 04, 1999).]
A British widower killed himself with a homemade guillotine exactly two months after his wife's death, a coroner ruled.
The inquest heard that Colin Vincent, from the northern England town of Halifax, built the apparatus outside his home.
He lay under the heavy steel blade and used pliers to cut a retaining wire. A pathologist told the hearing that the 57-year-old's head had been cleanly chopped off.
Being of a curious nature, I just have to wonder what was going through this gentlemans mind as he built his guillotine. Just goes to show you that even with a firearms ban in England, if someone is hell bent on committing suicide, they'll find a way.
"For Sale: 1 Guillotine, 99% finish, used once." Ouch!
[This message has been edited by MissileCop (edited December 04, 1999).]
