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jmowreader

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5. Everyone look close at the URL

Reply to 70sEraVet (Original post)

Fri Dec 3, 2021, 01:29 PM

Dec 2021

Prisons don’t actually HAVE “noose rooms.” When they hanged people, executioners owned their own ropes that they had stretched for a full year before hanging anyone with them to get all the elasticity out of them. The British government sent Albert Pierrepoint to Germany to hang 250 Nazis, and he brought his own ropes with him.

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Prison Acknowledges Security Lapse that led to Ghislain Maxwell Spending Night in Noose Room [View all] 70sEraVet Dec 2021 OP

She is a monster, gab13by13 Dec 2021 #1

Still trying to figure out snowybirdie Dec 2021 #2

I'm interested in how the fire room works out. NutmegYankee Dec 2021 #3

Look at the source TheRealNorth Dec 2021 #4

Everyone look close at the URL jmowreader Dec 2021 #5

I'm not sure if people are being sarcastic or missing that it's the Onion. nt Carlitos Brigante Dec 2021 #6