On an episode of the U.S. TV series, a hostage turned the table on her captors when he put her in the back seat of a car and prepared to drive off with her. Her wrists were bound in front of her with duct tape, palm to palm. She threw her arms over the guy’s head and strangled him unconscious from behind.
I maintain that the woman couldn’t have strangled the guy because she couldn’t put any pressure on his windpipe with her bound wrists – her forearms would be pressing against the side of the guys’ neck and she couldn’t get her bound wrists up against the front of his neck.
Another viewer maintains that the pressure of her forearms against the side of the neck could shut off the carotid arteries and knock the guy out.
I don’t know about that one, either. I thought you hand to dig in with the fingers and get some pretty specifically placed pressure going to shut down the carotids. So I don’t know if the knd of pressure you can generate with your inner forearms would do the trick.
You can definitely knock someone out with pressure to the carotid artery from the inner forearm, submission wrestlers do it all the time (of course, the other guy generally taps out before he passes out). However, it generally takes leverage and time, neither of which it sounds like she had. I guess we’d have to see it to know for sure, but it is at least possible.
Most likely possible. And it doesn’t take too much pressure on the neck to cut off the blood flow. A friend of mine and I were playing around one day and he put me in a head lock. In a fairly feeble attempt to get out of it I turned my head just right to put pressure on the sides of my neck, presumably cutting off prescious blood flow to my brain. I woke up about 10 seconds later on the floor, wondering how I had gotten there.
Yes, it is very possible, and much quicker, to cause unconsciousness with pressure on the sides of the throat than on the trachea. I have done it dozens, if not hundreds of times, in training and in contest.
If you shut off the ability to breathe, it can take more than a minute before your victim loses consciousness. An arterial choke takes effect in a few seconds.