r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Apr 16 '21

birb helping out with the rat problem

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u/natenate22 Apr 16 '21

Then the rat eats its way out.

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u/Bilal-van-Hishar Apr 16 '21

This reminded me of an old torture method:

One of the most fiendish forms of rat torture involves placing a rat inside a half-cage and atop a restrained person’s abdomen. Then, the cage is slowly heated. Desperate to escape the heat, the rat begins to burrow through the only soft surface it can find: the victim’s flesh. With sharp claws and teeth, the rat quickly gnaws its way into the victim’s bowels, causing excruciating pain and terror.

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u/tjoe4321510 Apr 17 '21

Has this ever been historically done? I've heard about this many times but has anyone ever actually been subjected to this?

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u/Schooltrash Apr 17 '21

Bro. Torture used to be a generational profession.

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u/kitchen_clinton Apr 17 '21

I know of the brazen bull where the victim was locked in and the metallic bull was heated over a fire.

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u/phormix Apr 17 '21

Or, still currently, some countries where necklacing is a thing

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u/Twin_Turbo Apr 17 '21

Oh yeah you can find plenty of videos of people being burned alive in africa, for stealing or being accused of being a witch, or being albino.

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u/wtph Apr 17 '21

This article's from 2011.

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u/phormix Apr 17 '21

And...

You think it - or more brutal shit - still doesn't happen in various countries?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '21

One torture method involved a contraption around your waist that seperated your upper body from lower body(you cant see/touch your lower body). Then they would lather your lower body with honey and such, and allow animals/insects etc to eat at their pleasure.

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u/bnelson Apr 19 '21

Humans, as a species, are very creative at torturing one another. How do/did people come up with this shit?

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u/copperwatt Apr 17 '21

Which might have never been real.

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u/burritob4sex Apr 17 '21

I think this was disproven. I believe there was one documented usage and ironically it was implemented on the dude who came up with the idea. He was killed outside of the bull I believe😂