I think someone did this with a chainsaw. Checking…
Did somebody find the Head of Vecna?
“What happened to him?”
- “Nobody knows. He just varnished.”
Could God grow a head so large that even he could not chop it off?
Would it be possible to wrap some kind of super wire around your neck and yank at it from either side? I suppose you’d have to wear gloves so you didn’t slice your fingers off first.
Maybe if it was attached to a stirrup into which you put your foot, then you stand up quickly and forcefully - more muscular strength and mass on the move = harder to stop halfway.
With that beard!?
Going back a few years, in a British Coroners handbook I saw a photo of a man who had cut his own throat with appropriately, a cut throat razor.
It looked like he had a "flip top"head.
I don’t think that he had got through the vertibrae though.
I once asked a cop what was the goriest thing he ever saw. I’ll put his answer in a spoiler box cause it’s prety gross. Open at your own risk
[spoiler]He answered a report about a car hitting a tree. The driver was slumped over the steering wheel. The cop went to check the guy’s pulse on his neck and the cop’s hand went up into the inside of the neck.
The car had hit a tree branch with such force that the victim had been decapitated and his head was under the back seat.[/spoiler]
Also in the running:
“Ya’ll watch this!”
“Try and take it from me.”
“Y’know, that outfit really does make you look fat, honey.”
“So you don’t think I’ve got the balls, huh?”
“Of course you can safely scratch a bear’s tummy!”
“I wonder what that mountain goat is doing up here in this cloud bank?”
The last one is courtesy of Gary Larson.
Can’t find a link, but there was also a bizarre case some years ago in (I think) South Africa where a man walked into a butcher shop, fired up the bandsaw, and attempted to cut off his own head. He died before getting all the way through, so mission accomplished, I guess.
My personal favorite:
“Uh-oh”
Francis “Dick” Scobee, Commander, Space Shuttle Challenger
I was not prepared to laugh at that… but I did.
The old piano wire story inclued a rope, a bridge, and some superglue. And it left the body hanging under the bridge upside down, holding its own head.
Suddenly I feel like having Pez.
Here’s another (you couldn’t make this shit up):
Sounds like the guy I heard about, except he wanted to make sure he wouldn’t just wound himself enough to keep him from jumping off, so he jumped and then shot himself as he was falling.
But in the turbulence of falling, he missed his temple, the bullet ended up severing the rope, and after landing in the water, he swallowed so much brackish water that he vomited up all the poison.
He also set himself on fire, but the water doused it.
I don’t think so, Tim. You just don’t have the leverage.