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Posted: Feb 20 2008 08:13 pm

I asked on another forum I go to, and no one really seemed to know.

Suppose a robber takes hostages at a bank. On his list of demands is "one human body", because in addition to being a robber, he is also a cannibal. If the authorities provided him with one human body, but it was that of a freshly-killed prisoner via lethal injection, would eating the lethal injection body cause the cannibal robber to die too?

What if he decided to bring a hibachi with him into the bank, and he made the hostages cook the dead body first to take care of any impurities. Does fire kill the ill effects of lethal injection chemicals?

Posted: Feb 20 2008 08:45 pm

-bjork- wrote:

Suppose a robber takes hostages at a bank. On his list of demands is "one human body", because in addition to being a robber, he is also a cannibal. If the authorities provided him with one human body, but it was that of a freshly-killed prisoner via lethal injection, would eating the lethal injection body cause the cannibal robber to die too?

No. Or at least highly unlikely.*
Edit: I can't scientifically back that up.

-bjork- wrote:

What if he decided to bring a hibachi with him into the bank, and he made the hostages cook the dead body first to take care of any impurities. Does fire kill the ill effects of lethal injection chemicals?

Lethal Injection can be (according to Wikipedia): Sodium thiopental, Pancuronium bromide, and Potassium chloride which are all chemicals (edit: or compounds, I forget... Damn wasted school. Damn you, I say!). To my understanding, heating will only kill bacteria but will do nothing to affect the deadly properties of a chemical (except for gas states and other hoopla which I'd need to look up). Anyway, that's the answer I remember when I asked someone if someone poisoned my soup, I saved it for later, and then microwaved it, would I still die? The answer was yes.
Edit: Oh yeah, and Mad Cow.

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if I understand the lethal injection right, then it shouldn't. Because the only lethal thing in the injection is Potassium Chloride, which injected into the blood stream in large quatities (100mEp) causes a heart attack, but is given oraly to treat hypokalemia (insufficient potassium).

Posted: Feb 21 2008 02:39 am

Just kill one hostage and eat them. Threaten to kill and eat a bit of more of them, if the police do not concede to your demands.

Posted: Feb 21 2008 10:21 am

What bank do you go to, beacuse I have to make sure to never be in one of those branches, just in case.....

And, I can't imagine eating a lethally injected body would be good, you should request a death by electric chair, thought I think those are getting harder to come by.....

I nominate this thread for winner of the oddest conversation award.....

Posted: Feb 21 2008 04:02 pm

Death by electric chair is considered inhumane. Maybe you could request a prisoner put to death by slow roasting?

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-bjork- wrote:

I asked on another forum I go to, and no one really seemed to know.

Suppose a robber takes hostages at a bank. On his list of demands is "one human body", because in addition to being a robber, he is also a cannibal. If the authorities provided him with one human body, but it was that of a freshly-killed prisoner via lethal injection, would eating the lethal injection body cause the cannibal robber to die too?

What if he decided to bring a hibachi with him into the bank, and he made the hostages cook the dead body first to take care of any impurities. Does fire kill the ill effects of lethal injection chemicals?

please tell me that you were discussing using lethal injection bodies as a method to stop cannibals from robbing banks.

Posted: Feb 22 2008 03:01 am

JEW wrote:

please tell me that you were discussing using lethal injection bodies as a method to stop cannibals from robbing banks.

We were once I posed the question. It just randomly came to me as I was driving home, so I asked in multiple places. Even customers found themselves unable to answer.

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simply fantastic!

Posted: Feb 23 2008 03:40 am

JEW wrote:

-bjork- wrote:

I asked on another forum I go to, and no one really seemed to know.

Suppose a robber takes hostages at a bank. On his list of demands is "one human body", because in addition to being a robber, he is also a cannibal. If the authorities provided him with one human body, but it was that of a freshly-killed prisoner via lethal injection, would eating the lethal injection body cause the cannibal robber to die too?

What if he decided to bring a hibachi with him into the bank, and he made the hostages cook the dead body first to take care of any impurities. Does fire kill the ill effects of lethal injection chemicals?

please tell me that you were discussing using lethal injection bodies as a method to stop cannibals from robbing banks.

Technically speaking, it would only deter cannibals from robbing banks to get human bodies to eat. They might still rob banks for cash, then eat a person as a wholly unrelated event.

Title: Hugh Joined: Sep 23 2007 Posts: 1591

This reminded me of two questions I had a while ago. If you took a bunch of people hostage, and on your demands list was like, a kilogram of skag or something, would the cops give it to you? And if you asked for food or something else you'd take in, could they like, poison it or something?

Posted: Feb 24 2008 02:54 am

Bobashotmace wrote:

This reminded me of two questions I had a while ago. If you took a bunch of people hostage, and on your demands list was like, a kilogram of skag or something, would the cops give it to you? And if you asked for food or something else you'd take in, could they like, poison it or something?

In addition to being decidedly illegal and raising the hackles of a whole lot of people on the national level, you run the risk of the robbers feeding the hostages with the food.

I'm not sure what skag is. Odds are not likely though. If its a drug of the illegal sort, then odds are zero.

Posted: Feb 24 2008 02:59 am

What if they demanded nude pictures of Bea Arthur?

Posted: Feb 24 2008 04:01 pm

I'd demand that everyone stops using nativity scense that platicize and comercialize the black wise man with their so called white christmas. Wink

Posted: Feb 25 2008 02:01 am

If Bea Arthur has nude pictures laying around, then yes. If not, then probably not.

Blackout Boy should write for Amos and Andy.

Posted: Feb 25 2008 07:27 am

I would give the cannibal the body and then use Level 1 Corpse Explosion on it, thusly taking him out.

Posted: Feb 25 2008 11:07 am

But corpse explosion only does 60-100% of the corpse's total life in damage. So you'd need to find the corpse of a wrestler or MMA fighter or something. Ya know, just be sure it kills him.

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that sounds like the best spell ever.

Posted: Feb 25 2008 07:21 pm

"Well it's either a wand that allows you to throw the various Bigsby's Hand spells, or a +2 backscratcher, we're not sure yet."

Posted: Feb 25 2008 07:25 pm

JEW wrote:

that sounds like the best spell ever.

Well, it's from Diablo 2 which was one of the best games ever, so that kinda goes without saying. I recommend playing D2 unpatched at least once because the spell was RIDICULOUS in the original release of the game. Then they toned down its radius quite a bit.

Posted: Feb 26 2008 02:53 am

Blackout Boy wrote:

"Well it's either a wand that allows you to throw the various Bigsby's Hand spells, or a +2 backscratcher, we're not sure yet."

Is that nodwick?

In any case, the best spell ever is Knife Eye Attack.

Posted: Feb 26 2008 04:57 am

Once when I got my own lab playing AD&D, I invented a spell called Bladder Control. Basically you could make someone feel like they needed to whiz really bad.

Posted: Feb 28 2008 09:34 pm

RobotGumshoe wrote:

Blackout Boy wrote:

"Well it's either a wand that allows you to throw the various Bigsby's Hand spells, or a +2 backscratcher, we're not sure yet."

Is that nodwick?

In any case, the best spell ever is Knife Eye Attack.

It's one of the little comics they drew in the AD&D Dungeon Master Guide.