There Is No Kill Like Overkill/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* In rugby: [[wikipedia:Records and statistics of the Rugby World Cup|By most points scored]], New Zealand vs Japan at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, by 145 points to 17. Or by total shutout, Australia vs Namibia in 2003, 142-0.

* Another sports example, the 1940 NFL Championship game featuring the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins. The teams had met earlier in the season, with the Redskins winning 7 - 3. After the game the Redskins owner called the Bears players "crybabies" and "quitters." So how did the rematch go? [[Take That|Chicago wins 73 - 0]].

* Several of the weapons on [http://www.cracked.com/article_19038_the-7-most-stupidly-overpowered-hunting-weapons.html this] list seem to have been designed with this concept in mind. Some notable entries: [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] Rounds (the name should say it all), Varmint Grenades (note: using these against humans has been declared a [[wikipedia:Hollow-point bullet#Legality|war crime]]), and the punt gun (a 6 ft to 10 ft long shotgun firing one pound of shot that would likely give [[Mass Effect|Wrex or Grunt]] [[Gun Porn|wet dreams]])

* One of the plans for eliminating Osama Bin Laden very likely came close to defining this: The airstrike would have involved 32 bunker-busting bombs to take out a single building (just in case there were any underground bunkers in the neighborhood). According to military estimates, the effect of the raid would have been similar to an earthquake on the surrounding city...something that made the US government a bit squeamish. (Source: [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_schmidle?currentPage=3 The New Yorker])

* The standard reaction of an untrained person armed with a gun is to completely empty a clip/magazine into an attacker and keep pulling the trigger. Similarly, the reaction with any other weapon is to keep hitting/stabbing/whatevering the other person. We're hardwired to want to make sure that that which is on the business end of our weapons is thourougly dead. Our ancestors who didn't have that habit were killed by the big cat or bear or whatever it was that they figured was dead enough.

* When ''Modern Warfare 3'' came out, Activision threatened cheaters with ''severe'' consequences. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymJqdoCobAg Seems like they weren't kidding]...

* During World War II, the British came up with the idea that to destroy hardened targets, they needed a really REALLY big bomb. What they got was the [[wikipedia:Tallboy (bomb)|Tallboy]], a bomb so big that during its design phase ''no existing bomber at the time could carry it''. Even when the Tallboy was scaled down for production, bombers needed special modifications to carry them. However, the Tallboy was hideously successful since it destroyed its targets by creating man-made earthquakes. The Tallboy was so successful that once they had the capability to carry it, the British [[Serial Escalation|designed an even bigger]] [[wikipedia:Grand Slam bomb|bomb]]. Even better, the Tallboy was officially known as the Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb.

* If the good old fly-swatter is not enough for you anymore, ''electrified'' ones are on sale.Not only they swat bugs and jolt them to death, but if you charge them enough they literally make them explode into dust.