Break an arm or leg bone, until it ruptures the skin.
Then, pull.
And remember–too much salt is bad for you.
…what?
Breaking skin is one thing, muscle is another. Unless the kid is from Krypton maybe. You need some place to get the finger through skin and muscle and rip up and I’m not sure even around the hip you could find a place to get leverage. Or unless you find a rupture and use it to your advantage – maybe.
Kopek has the right of it. There’s a reason folks invented hand axes and knives.
Breaking skin and breaking *through *skin are vastly different things.
Broken skin just means that t you’ve scratched the epidermis enough for a few capillaries to be torn.
Breaking through skin means that and the deeper layers connective tissue of the hypodermis have all been torn through. I can assure you that a toddler did not do that with a fingernail.
MMHMM…and, if he asked you to jump off of a bridge???
Is the belly button a point of weakness that can be exploited to do this? Start there and rip the flesh, after you get through the flesh start ripping the muscles.
I can assure you they did. They opened my skin on my hand to the bone. As in, needed stitches.
Predators often start at the anus…
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It might be that it’s because there’s no real fascia or anything under the skin on the hands? Doctor did characterise it as a “tear” not a “cut”, although it’s healed up nicely in the ensuing 8 years - the scar is near-invisible.
Kids, man, they’re the worst.
Dylan Moran gets gutted disgustingly in Shaun of the Dead and I’m pretty sure I remember a similarly gross scene in Charlie Brooker’s Dead Set but both were dark comedies.
Also Day of the Dead. I’m sure there are others I can’t think of as a lot of zombie media tend to put in a disemboweling scene as a homage to the Romero films.
I assume it’s probably pretty difficult. Try tearing a raw steak in half with your bare hands.
Cite?
The skin would be the hardest part, after that, the muscle would be comparatively easy. In my experience most people have a kind of governor on how much strength they actually put into tearing flesh. I’m not sure if its a natural reaction to tearing flesh or more of a case of them not trusting their hands on a slippery surface, or if it tears quickly they don’t want to go flying or ruin the meat.
In my experience, it seems surprisingly difficult until you finally say “fuck it” and then they come apart in pieces pretty easily. Most people don’t want nasty crappy chicken and all the mess, so they don’t put all their strength into it.
Happened back in the 1980’s or early '90’s before everything was on line, but I’ll try to find the report for you. Give me a bit of time to hunt.
I’ve heard of people biting someone’s finger off, but tearing it? Dislocate or break the bones, yes. I heard about a soccer player who had his ring wedding ring get caught in a fence and THAT tore it off. But another person? :dubious:
A man famously got his finger stripped to the bone by a thief snatching his iPad shopping bag. He later had to have it amputated so the finger was strong enough to stay attached with just with the bones left. And that was with the shopping bag string wrapped around the fingers. To me it sounds way too hard to just rip off a finger cleanly.
And that’s not even bare hands – it was the string that was wrapped around the guy’s hand that wouldn’t give.
It was an unusual situation - a very elderly and frail old woman. Perhaps she slipped and fell as he yanked, putting her body weight into the equation (sort of like the soccer player situation). It was over 20 years ago at this point so my memory isn’t entirely clear but I distinctly recall the news reports about the old lady losing her finger in the robbery.
Can’t find it on line, I’d have to go to a physical library to dig through news archives to find it at this point. I swear to Og, the internet thinks the world began after Jan 1, 2000.
I’ve heard of a few other instances of rings getting caught on something and a finger being lost as a result, it usually does seem to involve the ring as a fixed point and the person’s body weight helping to exert force on the digit.
I still say it’s impossible though to physically do it with one’s bare hands. Hell, I don’t even think there are any instances cited of it happening when people were tortured on the rack. Muscle tissue and ligaments torn? Hell yeah. Limbs actually physically separated from the body? No.