# Breaking necks is easy, effective and cool

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-necks-is-easy-effective-and-cool/173878>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 8, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-necks-is-easy-effective-and-cool/173878 "2003-05-08T12:05:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-necks-is-easy-effective-and-cool/173878/21 "2003-05-10T22:03:59Z")

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Just watched Resident Evil. Good god there is a lot of neck-twisting in that movie! Couldn’t get this thread out of my mind the whole time I was watching it.

The head twisting ranged from the ridiculously easy (Milla one-handedly breaks somones neck by pressing their face to the left) to rather realistic (lying victim, standing aggressor with a firm grip on their arm, and a boot under the side of their jaw).

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**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-necks-is-easy-effective-and-cool/173878/22 "2003-05-11T00:58:24Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \*  
> Neck-snapping was referred to (but not actually seen) in the original _Star Trek_ episode “Journey to Babel”.

**Bryan** , it’s posts like this that make you my 6th favorite poster from Montreal. 🙂

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