What It Was Like to Be In the Stocks
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Date: 2022-12-29
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teela1342
I'm all for bringing this back! Hear me out. Use this for petty crimes that would get a light jail sentence. Leave off the flogging and nailing ears stuff. Just an uncomfortable bench and foot restraints. Offenders would be there for 24 hours, but I'm nice so I will give you a pee break every 8 hours. So you have a group of petty criminals all sitting outside the courthouse together, maybe a 20 to 1 ratio of criminals to guards. Set up a produce stand so area stores can donate expired product that would otherwise be trashed. Sell produce to throw at the people in the stocks to help offset the cost of the program. So now instead of feeding, clothing, housing, guarding these petty criminals for days or months, you have an uncomfortable and embarrassing 24 hours of captivity, minimal staffing needed, the public catharsis of getting to yell at the dude that vandalized your store or throw a rotten tomato at the chick who drunkenly ran over your mailbox. Cheap punishment/deterrent for low level crimes! It is a win all the way around.
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I'm all for bringing this back! Hear me out. Use this for petty crimes that would get a light jail sentence. Leave off the flogging and nailing ears stuff. Just an uncomfortable bench and foot restraints. Offenders would be there for 24 hours, but I'm nice so I will give you a pee break every 8 hours. So you have a group of petty criminals all sitting outside the courthouse together, maybe a 20 to 1 ratio of criminals to guards. Set up a produce stand so area stores can donate expired product that would otherwise be trashed. Sell produce to throw at the people in the stocks to help offset the cost of the program. So now instead of feeding, clothing, housing, guarding these petty criminals for days or months, you have an uncomfortable and embarrassing 24 hours of captivity, minimal staffing needed, the public catharsis of getting to yell at the dude that vandalized your store or throw a rotten tomato at the chick who drunkenly ran over your mailbox. Cheap punishment/deterrent for low level crimes! It is a win all the way around.
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Starr
Talking about nailing ears, the phrase it's a rip off originated in Glasgow In a market in an area that's now called the trongate. If a trader was caught cheating someone he'd be nailed by the ears to the door of the building where witches were held before they were publicly hanged (a building which is still there) and the only way the rogue trader could escape would be to rip their earlobes to free themselves from the nails and when anyone saw a trader with ripped earlobes they wouldn't deal with them because they were known to have cheated people in the past and were therefore untrustworthy
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Talking about nailing ears, the phrase it's a rip off originated in Glasgow In a market in an area that's now called the trongate. If a trader was caught cheating someone he'd be nailed by the ears to the door of the building where witches were held before they were publicly hanged (a building which is still there) and the only way the rogue trader could escape would be to rip their earlobes to free themselves from the nails and when anyone saw a trader with ripped earlobes they wouldn't deal with them because they were known to have cheated people in the past and were therefore untrustworthy
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Mariana
In Portugal, we used pelourinhos or picotas (the ancient name) for exhibiting the criminals and punish them. They resemble those Greek columns and they were placed in front of the city council or the main square of the municipality. If you come here, you'll see a lot of them in small towns and they are all styled differently to distinguish them from the ones of the other cities. It is a form of pillory, but it is made from stone and does not have holes or anything, even though the purpose is the same.
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In Portugal, we used pelourinhos or picotas (the ancient name) for exhibiting the criminals and punish them. They resemble those Greek columns and they were placed in front of the city council or the main square of the municipality. If you come here, you'll see a lot of them in small towns and they are all styled differently to distinguish them from the ones of the other cities. It is a form of pillory, but it is made from stone and does not have holes or anything, even though the purpose is the same.
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Eleven
Imagine how crime and nuisance would drop if brazen cocky local thugs were placed in the stocks, for a couple of days, in their underwear to be seen and ridiculed by the entire community!
Throw rotten eggs and fruit, dirty water, urine at them. Nothing to eat. Soil their clothes.
I think crime would all but dry up.
One person subjected to that humiliation would deter hundreds.
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Imagine how crime and nuisance would drop if brazen cocky local thugs were placed in the stocks, for a couple of days, in their underwear to be seen and ridiculed by the entire community!
Throw rotten eggs and fruit, dirty water, urine at them. Nothing to eat. Soil their clothes.
I think crime would all but dry up.
One person subjected to that humiliation would deter hundreds.
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Riordan47
Its funny. coz in my state, like 500 years ago,
There was the old kingdom of Meetei
They punish the prisoners by locking them up in a 10x10 building
with only one high window
No food or water for 30 days
and the people who survived the punishment got their charged dropped
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Its funny. coz in my state, like 500 years ago,
There was the old kingdom of Meetei
They punish the prisoners by locking them up in a 10x10 building
with only one high window
No food or water for 30 days
and the people who survived the punishment got their charged dropped
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Simon
I remember back to the time in primary school, our headmaster told us a story about a man who was branded with the letters ST, meaning sheep thief. He said that the man moved to a a area, lived a good life and the locals thought ST meant saint.
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I remember back to the time in primary school, our headmaster told us a story about a man who was branded with the letters ST, meaning sheep thief. He said that the man moved to a a area, lived a good life and the locals thought ST meant saint.
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Syd
I was sentenced to a couple hrs in the stocks at a renfaire I worked at back in the early 80s. Worst punishment I got was a couple hrs of tickle torture. Brutal as it was in comparison, I consider myself lucky thats all I went through
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I was sentenced to a couple hrs in the stocks at a renfaire I worked at back in the early 80s. Worst punishment I got was a couple hrs of tickle torture. Brutal as it was in comparison, I consider myself lucky thats all I went through
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Nining
In my country Indonesia, stock often used to held/restraint people with mental illness in a small hut outside their home. But that practice was abandoned many years ago. The last in news I think was in 2000 more or less.
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In my country Indonesia, stock often used to held/restraint people with mental illness in a small hut outside their home. But that practice was abandoned many years ago. The last in news I think was in 2000 more or less.
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vicTorey
I may be wrong, but there is still a pillory that has been preserved in York, Maine. I grew up near there and would drive by it quite often. I wonder if it's the same one Thomas Withers was in. That would be cool.
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I may be wrong, but there is still a pillory that has been preserved in York, Maine. I grew up near there and would drive by it quite often. I wonder if it's the same one Thomas Withers was in. That would be cool.
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David
I always find it hilarious that people think America was founded by people seeking religious freedom when, in reality, it was the opposite as shown by the Prynne case. Puritans hated any type of freedom.
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I always find it hilarious that people think America was founded by people seeking religious freedom when, in reality, it was the opposite as shown by the Prynne case. Puritans hated any type of freedom.
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M.
Ive always found the life of chimney sweepers in England so interesting. They were usually children and mistreated but would love a deep dive in this. Feel like theres more to the story.
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Ive always found the life of chimney sweepers in England so interesting. They were usually children and mistreated but would love a deep dive in this. Feel like theres more to the story.
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Dan
I think if public humiliation was brought back a lot of the crap today wouldnt occur. Today bad actions and behavior are seen as exemplary in movies, music, social platforms & main msm
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I think if public humiliation was brought back a lot of the crap today wouldnt occur. Today bad actions and behavior are seen as exemplary in movies, music, social platforms & main msm
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Lay
Is it odd, I kinda wanna know what happened with a person if they had to use the restroom. Like were they allowed to go with a guard, or did they have to crap and pee their pants?
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Is it odd, I kinda wanna know what happened with a person if they had to use the restroom. Like were they allowed to go with a guard, or did they have to crap and pee their pants?
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David
The French would be the people to say that making someone stand there and contemplate themselves is worse than using a 50 lb metal wedge to slice someone's head off lmao
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The French would be the people to say that making someone stand there and contemplate themselves is worse than using a 50 lb metal wedge to slice someone's head off lmao
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Ernest
Stocks are amateur hour. If I lived back than I would have suggested the punished be launched from a catapult by a dwarf in ceremonial robes into a pool of horse semen.
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Stocks are amateur hour. If I lived back than I would have suggested the punished be launched from a catapult by a dwarf in ceremonial robes into a pool of horse semen.
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education
Public punishment only raises sympathy. We need to return to severe institutional punishment and start it young enough to truly break problem kids.
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Public punishment only raises sympathy. We need to return to severe institutional punishment and start it young enough to truly break problem kids.
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Mike
Delaware the slowest state? I take offense, sir, I grew up in Delaware! It is the FIRST STATE! (Iam joking, but I am from Delaware and proud of it)
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Delaware the slowest state? I take offense, sir, I grew up in Delaware! It is the FIRST STATE! (Iam joking, but I am from Delaware and proud of it)
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twistedyogert
Honestly the stocks aren't as cruel as some other forms of punishment.
I could see sticking a drunk in the stocks until they sober up.
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Honestly the stocks aren't as cruel as some other forms of punishment.
I could see sticking a drunk in the stocks until they sober up.
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Blake
would be great to see a video where punished people exacted revenge on the public who partook in events of shaving his head, throwing stuff, etc.
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would be great to see a video where punished people exacted revenge on the public who partook in events of shaving his head, throwing stuff, etc.
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Respectful
Minor point, but. were tomatoes already so common in those times, that people had enough of them to let them get mouldy and throw at people?
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Minor point, but. were tomatoes already so common in those times, that people had enough of them to let them get mouldy and throw at people?
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