[HN Gopher] Unusual murder weapons in crime fiction
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Unusual murder weapons in crime fiction
Author : fanf2
Score : 28 points
Date : 2020-11-27 19:43 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| MeinBlutIstBlau wrote:
| The funny thing is my mind went exactly to that lamb leg they
| pictured!
| rzzzt wrote:
| "Rosebud." https://columbophile.com/2020/01/12/episode-review-
| columbo-h...
| daniellarusso wrote:
| Ha! Just watched that episode a few days ago.
|
| I think a more HN oriented Columbo murder was the high-tech,
| computerized phonograph...
|
| "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case"
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| https://stereonomono.blogspot.com/2010/10/adc-accutrac-4000....
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| https://columbophile.com/2019/10/27/episode-review-columbo-t...
| philipkglass wrote:
| In the Breaking Bad episode "Salud" several people drink poisoned
| liquor, including the poisoner. The poisoner survives because he
| induces vomiting soon after drinking and has medical resources
| prepared to treat him afterward. That wasn't what I expected.
|
| I _actually_ expected the poisoner to have taken prophylactic
| naloxone and served liquor poisoned with a potent, short-half-
| life opioid like sufentanil. It could kill his enemies directly
| via respiratory depression or just render them unconscious so he
| could drag them all into the swimming pool to drown. This would
| be the modern version of the old murder mystery trick "poisoner
| gradually builds up his tolerance to arsenic from small doses,
| then consumes arsenic-poisoned food/drink along with the victim."
| It would have the advantage of not being as hazardous or
| laborious as building up a tolerance for arsenic. It would also
| have been a clever chemistry based approach to murder in a series
| that often showed off some bit of chemistry.
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| I don't know if this naloxone/opioid poisoning trick has been
| used in other shows or published works. A quick search for
| "murder" "mystery" "naloxone" didn't turn up anything likely.
| zabzonk wrote:
| > poisoner gradually builds up his tolerance to arsenic from
| small doses, then consumes arsenic-poisoned food/drink along
| with the victim
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| Probably most famously in "The Princess Bride" (not arsenic,
| though).
| Blahah wrote:
| Probably not, at least as a proportion of the population,
| given that by the 1930s the entire reading public of the USA
| and UK knew about arsenic eaters. Probably most famously in
| Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (1930)[0].
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| Also taught in schools across the British Empire in the early
| 1900s would have been the stories of King Mithridates[1], or
| of the Arsenic eaters of Styria (see this 1869 Scientific
| American Article [2]).
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| 0: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/may/09/chile
| an...
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| 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI#Mithridates'_
| an...
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| 2: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arsenic-
| eater...
| MeinBlutIstBlau wrote:
| Isn't it sad that an article written in the 1860d contains
| more interesting content and actual data than even the
| average article or op ed price today?
|
| Regardless, that was a very interesting read!
| renewiltord wrote:
| That's just survivor bias.
| tgv wrote:
| Nice read for Friday night. Now, where's my biro
| (http://bhscsi.blogspot.com/2009/02/lieden-ballpoint-murder-c...,
| or https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balpenmoord if you can read
| Dutch)?
| mellosouls wrote:
| Many of those listed seem to have been picked for their
| offbeatness, serving dark humour.
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| My own favourite is Anton Chigurh's captive bolt stunner (No
| Country For Old Men - Cormac Mcarthy), which seems more chilling
| for the brazen way he carries it round as though it's the most
| natural killing implement in the world.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ty16dd41I
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| (Warning: As you might expect - contains violence).
| freeone3000 wrote:
| Considering the scale of beef consumption, it might be!
| ahelwer wrote:
| Fitting, since Chigurh views most people as no more than cattle
| - just going with the flow, no guiding principles - while he
| rigidly adheres to a chosen set of values to the death. The
| Partially Examined Life podcast did a great episode on this
| book:
| https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/ep-63-existentiali...
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