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What would be the fastest way to kill someone with a push-pin? Asking for a friend. I can think of puncturing their eyes or their genitals if I wanted to make

by kaddio 8y ago

What would be the fastest way to kill someone with a push-pin? Asking for a friend. I can think of puncturing their eyes or their genitals if I wanted to make the thing painful, but that wouldn't kill them any faster I reckon.

SEJeff 8y ago
Likely via the carotid artery or perhaps the femoral artery if you were up close and very personal, but this is mostly an exercise in futility.
- nurino 8y ago
  I'm not sure you could reach those arteries with a push-pin.
  - SEJeff 8y ago
    The carotid is right under the skin on the sides of the neck. Academically, I suspect you absolutely could reach it with a push pin. In Jiu Jitsu, you're taught to squeeze on the sides of the neck for a choke. The goal is not to cut off the air supply via the throat so much as the blood supply to the brain via the carotids. Many people pass out in 20-30 seconds of directed relatively gentle pressure on the carotids.
    - tonyarkles 8y ago
      We were recently talking about choke holds in Krav Maga, and it’s shockingly fast when the sides of the neck are squeezed. Within about 5 seconds, for me, I start to get tunnel vision and a profound sense of panic.
      - dx87 8y ago
        That's how they taught us to choke people during basic training in the USMC, and collectively referred to the chokes as "blood chokes" because you cut off blood supply to the brain. It's suprisingly easy to choke someone unconcious just by twisting the sides of their shirt collar, or grabbing someone from behind and squeezing the arteries on their neck with your forearm and bicep. The scariest part about doing it during training is that you don't know that you're about to blackout because you can still breath fine, it's just that none of the oxygen is getting to your brain.
      - SEJeff 8y ago
        Indeed. I've never lasted more than ~12 seconds, but was being conservative in my response as I don't have any facts on how long it takes.
abdulhaq 8y ago
Place it gently on the forehead then smash it in with a clawhammer
sctb 8y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356812 and marked it off-topic.
krapp 8y ago
Hide it in their food?

by kaddio 8y ago

SEJeff 8y ago

Likely via the carotid artery or perhaps the femoral artery if you were up close and very personal, but this is mostly an exercise in futility.

nurino 8y ago
I'm not sure you could reach those arteries with a push-pin.
- SEJeff 8y ago
  The carotid is right under the skin on the sides of the neck. Academically, I suspect you absolutely could reach it with a push pin. In Jiu Jitsu, you're taught to squeeze on the sides of the neck for a choke. The goal is not to cut off the air supply via the throat so much as the blood supply to the brain via the carotids. Many people pass out in 20-30 seconds of directed relatively gentle pressure on the carotids.
  - tonyarkles 8y ago
    We were recently talking about choke holds in Krav Maga, and it’s shockingly fast when the sides of the neck are squeezed. Within about 5 seconds, for me, I start to get tunnel vision and a profound sense of panic.
    - dx87 8y ago
      That's how they taught us to choke people during basic training in the USMC, and collectively referred to the chokes as "blood chokes" because you cut off blood supply to the brain. It's suprisingly easy to choke someone unconcious just by twisting the sides of their shirt collar, or grabbing someone from behind and squeezing the arteries on their neck with your forearm and bicep. The scariest part about doing it during training is that you don't know that you're about to blackout because you can still breath fine, it's just that none of the oxygen is getting to your brain.
    - SEJeff 8y ago
      Indeed. I've never lasted more than ~12 seconds, but was being conservative in my response as I don't have any facts on how long it takes.

abdulhaq 8y ago

Place it gently on the forehead then smash it in with a clawhammer

sctb 8y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356812 and marked it off-topic.

krapp 8y ago

Hide it in their food?