Disproportionate Retribution/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* In Littleton, Colorado, a 19-year-old was arrested because of an overdue DVD he hadn't returned to his local library. Story [http://consumerist.com/2010/03/colorado-teen-arrested-for-overdue-dvd.html here].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190823113256/https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/games?utm_source=g4tv_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed A 17-year old kid in China gets stabbed in the head by a group of gamers] [[Serious Business|for cheating at Counter-Strike]]. He survived, fortunately.

** More common than you'd think. "[[Frank Sinatra|My Way]]" is pretty dangerous when sung here, since it invites drunkards stabbing you for being terrible at singing it.

* Robert-François Damiens. Poor, poor Robert le Diable. Crazy guy, Catholic fanatic, a few cookies short of a jar, decided it would be awesome to assassinate Louis XV in 1757. His brilliant plan consisted of "go up to the royal carriage and leap out at ol' Louis le Bien-Aimé with a knife." Needless to say, the plan was flawed, and Damiens succeeded only in giving the king a scratch. He made no attempt to escape and was immediately arrested, tortured, and executed by the unbelievably gruesome French version of drawing and quartering, which hadn't been practiced since the Middle Ages and which even the king was loath to inflict; its name is deceiving, since it involves not only drawing and quartering (with a team of HORSES) but also torture with red-hot pincers, molten lead, burning sulfur, and burning at the stake. When Damiens heard what was going to happen, he said, [[This Is Gonna Suck|"The day will be hard."]] After his death, his house was razed to the ground, and his family was banished from France.