# Hamas leader electrocuted by Israel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882 "2010-02-06T02:43:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/41 "2010-02-08T04:34:21Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Why are the mods allowing this _ **GQ** _ thread to get so hijacked?! :mad: I’m inclined to think it’s in the wrong forum. For GQ, it would be more like “How does electrocution work”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/42 "2010-02-08T04:37:26Z")
Um … read my post out loud. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/43 "2010-02-08T05:48:36Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > The Israelis were so happy that they danced: the Electric Slide. To the tune Electric Boogaloo. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/44 "2010-02-08T06:05:42Z")
We in this thread will just have to solder on. ---
**Author:** ![I-VI-ii-V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c89c15/32.png) [@I-VI-ii-V](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I-VI-ii-V)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/45 "2010-02-08T07:41:56Z")
Does this thread need a jump start? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/46 "2010-02-08T15:17:53Z")
I’d be apauled if someone put the wrong spin on this and they excluded a possible guilty party. I know I will catch some static for saying this, but he was a shell of his former self. He was famous for his three pronged approach to problem solving, yet wise enough to insulate himself from other terrrorist cells. I’ve heard rumors that he was killed with PCB by means of a very circuitous route. There probably are only trace amounts to be found. No doubt the transitions resulting from his death will generate a series of revolting transformations. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/47 "2010-02-08T15:23:24Z")
Did this all happen on a Faraday? When he gets to heaven, is he rewarded with 72 V…? ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/48 "2010-02-08T16:56:23Z")
Wire you all laughing? ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/49 "2010-02-08T17:25:09Z")
It has been suggested that he had called Room Service for some [juice](http://www.failpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/death-to-all-juice-2.jpg)… ---
**Author:** ![UncleFred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@UncleFred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleFred)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/50 "2010-02-08T20:53:09Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Did this all happen on a Faraday? > When he gets to heaven, is he rewarded with 72 V…? But will he have the capacity to enjoy it? If not to the max, well, at least we should find out if it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/51 "2010-02-09T00:13:57Z")
> [@UncleFred](#): > > But will he have the capacity to enjoy it? If not to the max, well, at least we should find out if it hurts. Using your suggestion, a deep throat we can call [Leena](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leena) provides one plausible scenario: The body was black, because it was possibly a bank clerk who hit him with a silver hammer. Weber or not we have the correct human body model is a sure signal of a gap in our investigation. The shot noise (look it up on flicker), just as the terrorist was munching on a wafer, gave the assassin barely enough time to rectify his own dithering, so he could get the room clean and effect a discrete exit down the hall. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/52 "2010-02-09T01:30:48Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Using your suggestion, a deep throat we can call [Leena](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leena) provides one plausible scenario: > > The body was black, because it was possibly a bank clerk who hit him with a silver hammer. Weber or not we have the correct human body model is a sure signal of a gap in our investigation. The shot noise (look it up on flicker), just as the terrorist was munching on a wafer, gave the assassin barely enough time to rectify his own dithering, so he could get the room clean and effect a discrete exit down the hall. I heard the assassin used a tunnel, passing a junction on the way. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/53 "2010-02-09T02:14:30Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I heard the assassin used a tunnel, passing a junction on the way. Correct, by all accounts. Traveling on his way to Copenhagen he waved. Sitting on a plank for the long trip, he became bored. So on the trip he read _Peanuts_, Shroeder being his favorite character. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/54 "2010-02-09T02:51:44Z")
Are we positive that the Israelis did it? That seems a very negative assumption. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/55 "2010-02-09T02:53:43Z")
I am positive the assasin was an ionized hydrogen atom. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/56 "2010-02-09T04:04:12Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I am positive the assasin was an ionized hydrogen atom. I’m not really strongly bound to any one theory. But remember the assassin might have been a mole. ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/57 "2010-02-09T07:51:29Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > I’m not really strongly bound to any one theory. But remember the assassin might have been a mole. Hey, come on. Chemistry jokes are really not the solution here. The mods have really shown their capacitance for humor here, even if the puns weren’t conducted in the best of faith. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/58 "2010-02-09T11:04:06Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > If its true, how did they do it? Has any information been released on exactly what happened? How could they have done it? > > Sounds very James Bond. Certainly was an odd job. And remember [how he was killed](http://dev.goldeneyesource.com/wiki/index.php/Oddjob).\* \*Mod and everyone else: This is _exactly_ on topic, while displaying that happy-go-lucky verbal dexterity that threadnicks have as a matter of course. 🆒 Happy now? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/59 "2010-02-11T07:23:09Z")
Oh wow. The pun concentration is reaching critical mass. Made me think of a formula… (thread length)/puns = humor. ---
**Author:** ![IntergalacticFootballClub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@IntergalacticFootballClub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IntergalacticFootballClub)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882/60 "2010-02-11T12:35:31Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > And since the U.S. is a supporter of Israel, We’re all guilty by extension. Guilty of neutralizing the enemy in evermore creative ways!🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-leader-electrocuted-by-israel/527882.md?page=4)