# How to kill a werewolf **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094 "2005-09-17T06:51:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/42 "2005-09-18T19:30:20Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > In that case why kill the werewolf? Just feed him spammers. He is performing a vital social function and making the world a better place. I wish the werewolf a fat belly and a long life. 😃 So, you’re proposing a long drawn out death via cholesterol poisoning? You fiend! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/43 "2005-09-18T19:36:34Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > So, you’re proposing a long drawn out death via cholesterol poisoning? You fiend! 😉 That is an unintened consequence. Let’s alter it to say a Happy Healthy long life. OK? Maybe if we get him on a good exercise program with lots of running/loping whatever wolves do. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/44 "2005-09-18T19:51:16Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > That is an unintened consequence. Let’s alter it to say a Happy Healthy long life. OK? Maybe if we get him on a good exercise program with lots of running/loping whatever wolves do. Just give the spammers a five-minute head-start. That should do it. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/45 "2005-09-18T20:36:45Z")
I believe we have a workable solution. It covers diet and exercise. We’re good to go. ---
**Author:** ![Firebringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@Firebringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebringer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/46 "2005-09-18T23:03:24Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Dude, your D&D skills are way off. Werewolves have damage reduction enough so that the 10’ fall can’t possibly knock them unconscious, and they can easily take 20 on a climb check in order to get out of that pit. YOU DIE!l Your assuming D&D as 3rd Edition not the basics. Point of werewolf in pit is starvation/thirst not knock out. Taking 20 assumes in 3rd Ed you take about 2minutes to attempt the action. Also assumes not faced with ‘threats or distractions’. On relection my idea could have been better thought out but I’m going to defend it anyway :smack: ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/47 "2005-09-19T02:19:38Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Ok. > First, I would obtain an [ice pick](http://doityourself.com/store/6992689.htm) make sure its as sharp as possible. > obtain a fast acting animal tranquilizer dart and blow gun. Practice with the blow gun and dummy darts for distance and accuracy. > Being experience in woods craft, I am able to get within the needed 15 feet of the sleeping man-shape without awaking him. Blow dart into large back muscle. Even though the man-shape awakens, and charges, he collapses before covering the 15 feet between us, > I then use push the point of the ice pick into the hollow just under the base of his skull in the back where skull and spine meet. I push the pick in up to the handle, while rotating the handle with a stirring action. Effectively [Pithing](http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animals_in_education/frequently_asked_questions_about_dissection.html) him. I have destroyed his brain stem, which makes it impossible for his heart to beat or for his higher brain to function. > Am I still alive? Ok, someone needs to critque my plan. Did I kill the werewolf or am I werewellington? Would [this](http://cards.mtgnews.com/Cards/SK/Pithing_Needle.html) have been a better explanation of my tecnique? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/48 "2005-09-19T02:20:14Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Ok. > First, I would obtain an [ice pick](http://doityourself.com/store/6992689.htm) make sure its as sharp as possible. > obtain a fast acting animal tranquilizer dart and blow gun. Practice with the blow gun and dummy darts for distance and accuracy. > Being experience in woods craft, I am able to get within the needed 15 feet of the sleeping man-shape without awaking him. Blow dart into large back muscle. Even though the man-shape awakens, and charges, he collapses before covering the 15 feet between us, > I then use push the point of the ice pick into the hollow just under the base of his skull in the back where skull and spine meet. I push the pick in up to the handle, while rotating the handle with a stirring action. Effectively [Pithing](http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animals_in_education/frequently_asked_questions_about_dissection.html) him. I have destroyed his brain stem, which makes it impossible for his heart to beat or for his higher brain to function. > Am I still alive? Ok, someone needs to critque my plan. Did I kill the werewolf or am I werewellington? Would [this](http://cards.mtgnews.com/Cards/SK/Pithing_Needle.html) have been a better explanation of my technique? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094/49 "2005-09-19T04:20:32Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > And how would you do this? Anything that make a living by predation is going to leave behind some evidence. I could follow a blood trail or tracks on my own and I could use trained dogs to track it down by scent. Of course I wouldn’t be doing this alone as I’m sure my neighbors would be more then happy to lend a hand being as their livestock and loved ones are all in similiar danger. I’m confident that we could kill this werewolf with either projectile weapons or hand help weapons such as spears. Using hunting tactics we can run the beast down until it’s to tired to run. Marc [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-kill-a-werewolf/322094.md?page=2)