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sogdianrock · 61-69, M
hi mellanyfrost
No and I do not like the idea of restricting an airway.
This device was used by a discredited British Empire era Prison Governor in Australia as a torture/ punishment device.
"When a prisoner broke for freedom, and was captured, he was compelled to wear a heavy ball of iron, weighing 72 pounds, attached to his belt by a chain. The eyes of refractories on parade were sometimes lightly bandaged, and a black gag was used to silence their cries of pain, [b]the gag consisting of a wooden bit in a leather bridle, the straps buckling around the convicts head and neck[/b]. The blacksmiths forge was under the focsle head, where the iron anklets and chains weighing from 7 pounds to 56 pounds were forged."
imho these devices should be consigned to a terrible history.
Best wishes
:)
No and I do not like the idea of restricting an airway.
This device was used by a discredited British Empire era Prison Governor in Australia as a torture/ punishment device.
"When a prisoner broke for freedom, and was captured, he was compelled to wear a heavy ball of iron, weighing 72 pounds, attached to his belt by a chain. The eyes of refractories on parade were sometimes lightly bandaged, and a black gag was used to silence their cries of pain, [b]the gag consisting of a wooden bit in a leather bridle, the straps buckling around the convicts head and neck[/b]. The blacksmiths forge was under the focsle head, where the iron anklets and chains weighing from 7 pounds to 56 pounds were forged."
imho these devices should be consigned to a terrible history.
Best wishes
:)