10 comments

  • N_Lens 3 hours ago
    "What are you going to do, lob a stone at me from 300m away?" shouted the man on the parapet, moments before impact.
    • paxcoder 3 hours ago
      I hate this meme. Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool". And the other person still decides to use lethal force. That is diabolical, not funny.
      • WelkinFolk 1 hour ago
        Diabolically funny, you mean.
      • bluefirebrand 1 hour ago
        > Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool".

        That strikes me as a wildly incorrect interpretation of the situation in the meme.

        My reading is closer to a man on a parapet shouting "neener neener you can't touch me" moments before being touched by a rock at high velocity

        • lazide 1 hour ago
          Yup, my favorite is the ‘what are you going to do, stab me? -stabbed man’ quote from the news interview hah.
  • Levitating 32 minutes ago
    "...uncovered the graves of nine skeletons dated to the early 1300s. Five, including Skeleton 150, dated to the 1300s."

    That seems like a contradiction.

  • cobbzilla 1 hour ago
    But have they identified the trebuchet that killed him?

    We can rule out Warwolf [1] my favorite trebuchet, which never killed anyone.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf

  • s20n 3 minutes ago
    first confirmed case of MLG noscope
  • JoeAltmaier 4 days ago
    Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).
    • hermitcrab 4 days ago
      Indeed, I am sure there are other mechanisms that could cause similar trauma.
  • b3ing 1 hour ago
    Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing
    • Swizec 19 minutes ago
      > Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing

      from the article: “skull broken in 61 places”

      Doubt you’d stay conscious long enough to notice

    • kevin_thibedeau 56 minutes ago
      Instant unconsciousness. Hopefully he didn't wake up.
      • shevy-java 16 minutes ago
        How do you know that? Is it confirmed that this led to instant unconsciousness?
  • helloworld 42 minutes ago
    Our modern weapons are far more destructive, but our propensity for violence and war seems to be an invariant across the millennia.
  • shevy-java 18 minutes ago
    > 14th century

    While this death may be the first confirmed from a trebuchet, is that really the first death by a trebuchet? Plus, I'd say catapults are almost identical to a trebuchet in workings, for the most part. I don't quite believe that this was really the first death by catapult.

  • Georgelemental 2 hours ago
  • 27183 3 hours ago
    dude got absolutely rocked
    • xprnio 2 hours ago
      What do you expect - it came in like a wrecking ball
    • kouunji 2 hours ago
      Didn’t feel it though, cuz he was stoned.