It would make a good movie plot, the full flood was just an
added thought so the parts would be a long way away. If you
had a suit of chain mail or armor on so the body would not
bloat and come to the surface and a steel knights helmet so
the head would also sink...

I guess I've been watching too many episodes of Buffy and
Angel.

A ten foot drop on a rope can cause decapitation, you can
find pictures of the hanging of Black Bart (a white stage
coach robber about 1900) or even recently of a young man
running from the police in Atlanta who jumped over a bridge
rail and had his head caught on a spiked fence (Google
"decapitation Atlanta") brings it up.

When do you expect to see riot control police with Homelite
chain saws instead of clubs?



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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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| On 2006-02-09, Jim Macklin p51mustang wrote:
| effective if you jump from a 40 foot bridge. If you do
it
| over a river at full flood, there won't even be a
funeral
| and the cable won't even be seen for about 6 years since
| your head and body will NOT be hanging there to draw
| attention.
|
| A bit macabre, but it wouldn't need to be at full flood -
a 20 foot drop
| using steel cable will probably cause decapitation, so all
that'll be
| left will be some steel wire and the head/body washed
downstream.
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