Noose

[treebing]

My dad taught me how to tie a noose when I was in the third or fourth grade. Excited by this new knowledge, my friend and I hung a noose in his front yard tree complete with thirteen wraps. We got distracted by other fun and went off to the park. When we returned a few hours later, there was an ambulance in front of the house. The second grader from down the street had walked over and stuck his head in the noose and put his weight on it, It cinched up, he couldnt loosen it, and he passed out.

Luckily, thank GOD, he was rescued by a passer by before any real damage could occur. (imagine driving by and seeing a lifeless, blue faced, second grader hanging from a tree).

My father on the other hand, was very nearly killed by my mother when she found out that he was the one who taught us how to tie such a deadly knot. Do not give lethal weapons to children, they really do work for what they are intended for.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

My Dad taught my sis and I a slip knot when I was in first grade. It worked to 'hang' my stuffed toy, TomCat. It isn't necessary to know a noose knot to make a dangerous knot.

 

[treebing]

whats scary about a noose though, and its almost universally true, that if you hand a person a noose they will play like they are putting it around there neck.

Having not fully learned my lesson the first time around I tied one at a camp a few years later to show off, another bully sort of kid comandeered the noose and proceeded to pretend like he was going to hang people. I was very scared because I didnt want a repeat occurence. Kind of like a kid running around with a gun. If you were trying to kill someone, you would you would use a noose. it is a very specifically designed killing knot.

 

[Blinky]

Kevin, what a horrific experience. I can see how that would leave a lasting impression... you need to hang around smarter people though(pun intended, am i funny, or what?).

I learned from my Dad at about the same age as you, tied nooses and played with them, so did my friends, none of us EVER tried to pretend hang each other... I think I may have hung a stuffed animal or something.

I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, the family across my street had a cross burned in their yard... and the noose never represented lynching a black person to me, still doesn't... it was a Wild West/Clint Eastwood/Cat Ballou thing.

Should we also stop using chains? Because chains and trucks were how black people were murdered when I was young, not just black people actually, a Notre Dame fan got the drag treatment once after the beat Alabama in a bowl game.

Screwed up people are the problem, not their implements of choice.

 

[cerviarborist]

I'm with Blinky. People will hurt each other with feather pillows if they really have malice on their minds.

 

[treebing]

yeah, and I will show my kid if I ever have one how to tie one along with all the other cool knots out there. I will just be very sure he knows that it will kill you if you hang in it.

I remember another time when some kids in middle school found a can of mace on the playground (that may have been the kid's story not the real story) Where ever it came from it ended up getting shot off in the bathroom sending a couple of kids to the clinic and getting the rest of us out of school for the day.

 

[UrbanTC]

My father hanged himself from a noose. I hate the noose for every reason that it is.

 

[Blinky]

Damn Jeremy.