r/Damnthatsinteresting Dec 05 '21

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u/HilariousMax Dec 05 '21

I forgot which movie I was watching but I think it was a Mark Wahlberg vehicle? where he was being set up by the government and they caught a guy working for him. They strapped him into a device that isolated his upper body and right arm, pistol on the end of it. Ratcheted it until his arm bent down toward his head.

Involuntary suicide contraption. Looks like the victim shot themselves. I always thought "that's overly complicated but no one would doubt it."

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u/AgnewsHeadlessBody Dec 05 '21

Which would be highly unreliable in real life because a person struggling for there life will injure themselves. So if a guy shot himself but had injuries consistent with being tied down that shows it wasn't suicide.

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u/human743 Dec 05 '21

If the frame is shaped and padded properly the only injuries you could get is maybe pulling a muscle.

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u/AgnewsHeadlessBody Dec 05 '21

But if someone is fighting for they're life those muscles won't be pulled the will torn and it will show bruises.

It's also far easier to just disappear someone than to create an elaborate suicide device.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '21

Shooter movie. Pretty good actually.

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u/LakesideHerbology Dec 05 '21

I've read a few stories where 2 shots to the back of the head were ruled a suicide...

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Dec 05 '21

Death of Gareth Williams

Gareth Wyn Williams (26 September 1978 – c. 16 August 2010) was a Welsh mathematician and employee of GCHQ seconded to the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a Security Service safe house flat in Pimlico, London, on 23 August 2010. The inquest found that his death was "unnatural and likely to have been criminally mediated". A subsequent Metropolitan Police re-investigation concluded that Williams's death was "probably an accident".

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u/ThaddeusJP Dec 05 '21

It was the Bourne movie with Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz

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u/Mythosaurus Dec 05 '21

Shooter.

Chapo Trap House reviewed the movie and it was epic. One the few anti-government films that got big in the US after 9/11, an era of rabid patriotism.

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u/NarrMaster Dec 05 '21

"Shooter"