The Ultimate Pacifier

Ok, this is something horrifying I came across on boingboing.net

CHOAK PEAR. Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it, that it could not be taken out of the mouth: and the iron, being case-hardened, could not be filed: the only methods of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the mouth, or advertizing a reward for the key, These pears were also called pears of agony.

Maybe this should be done with all politicians.

[tags] torture, oddity, good idea [/tags]

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2 Responses to “The Ultimate Pacifier”

  1. Are you trying to hint at a birthday gift?….

  2. lol, maybe : )

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