Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

What would it take for you to kill?

Options
  • 17-12-2020 6:11am
    #1
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭


    They say humans have it as an instinct, it's the reason why we for the head or neck in a fight.

    I was reading a very interesting story recently about a young Mafia member in Philadelphia during the 80s, Salvatore ' Salvie' Testa, known as the 'Mafia Prince' in the media.

    His father Phil ' Chicken Man' Testa was the boss of the Philadelphia Family and his murder was immortised in the Bruce Springsteen song 'Atlantic City'.

    Salvie found the men who killed his dad and tortured them for three days. Setting fireworks up their arse, peeling back their fingernails, systematically removing their eye balls with a tea spoon.

    He'd no remorse for his actions. He made a comment a year later stating that he wished he could dig them up and kill them again.

    Salvie met his end not too long after. He was double crossed by his fathers Underboss, Nicodemo Scarfo. Shot in the the head and dumped in a ditch along the road from Philly to Atlantic City. 28 years old.


«134

Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Oh Jayziz got up earlier because I couldn't sleep and after reading that probably won't sleep for a week. I could murder you!


  • Options
    #3
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,027 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Immunity.


    (From prosecution/retribution. Nothing to do with Covid. I'll be doing my best not to risk killing anyone with that.)


  • Options
    #4
    simongurnick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭simongurnick


    Someone messing with my kids


  • Options
    #5
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Reading up about Salvie is tragic. He was glued to his father from knee high, the Chicken man had him in their social clubs from the time he could walk and talk. He was groomed to be a mobster.

    He saw horrible things as a child.


  • Options
    #6
    larchielads
    Registered Users Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭larchielads


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    They say humans have it as an instinct, it's the reason why we for the head or neck in a fight.

    I was reading a very interesting story recently about a young Mafia member in Philadelphia during the 80s, Salvatore ' Salvie' Testa, known as the 'Mafia Prince' in the media.

    His father Phil ' Chicken Man' Testa was the boss of the Philadelphia Family and his murder was immortised in the Bruce Springsteen song 'Atlantic City'.

    Salvie found the men who killed his dad and tortured them for three days. Setting fireworks up their arse, peeling back their fingernails, systematically removing their eye balls with a tea spoon.

    He'd no remorse for his actions. He made a comment a year later stating that he wished he could dig them up and kill them again.

    Salvie met his end not too long after. He was double crossed by his fathers Underboss, Nicodemo Scarfo. Shot in the the head and dumped in a ditch along the road from Philly to Atlantic City. 28 years old.


    Quick somebody tell scorcese


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    TuringBot47
    Registered Users Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    simongurnick wrote: »
    Someone messing with my kids

    Yep, that would do it.
    Someone who broke into the house and coming up the stairs. I've a claw hammer at the side of the bed to explain the big mistake they made to them personally.

    You can legally use force against a burglar, within reason. You can't chase them as they try to escape but certainly stopping them from coming out in or trying to force them out, protecting your family etc.


  • Options
    #8
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    That fucxer in the yellow reg white van that skipped the queue by blasting up the bus lane.


  • Options
    #9
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    A weapon of some description.


  • Options
    #10
    everlast75
    Registered Users Posts: 19,181 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Hearing "All I want for Christmas" by Mariah Carey one more f**king time....


  • Options
    #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,637 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    simongurnick wrote: »
    Someone messing with my kids

    Someone ‘messing’ with any kids if I had the right opportunity.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    atr2002
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭atr2002


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    Yep, that would do it.
    Someone who broke into the house and coming up the stairs. I've a claw hammer at the side of the bed to explain the big mistake they made to them personally.

    You can legally use force against a burglar, within reason. You can't chase them as they try to escape but certainly stopping them from coming out in or trying to force them out, protecting your family etc.
    Put a strong wrist strap on that hammer. They're used to that ****, you're not.. and you'd be half asleep


  • Options
    #13
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    I think everybody has the capacity to take another persons life, I would imagine it wouldbe down to circumstance and desperation. Human's has a species have a tendency to destroy life, look at all the wars and genocides throughout history.


  • Options
    #14
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,733 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    It's not so easy kill things, but then sometimes they die for the simplest reasons.
    Torturing is a completely different matter, Ithat I think one would need a damaged or altered mindset to carry out.


  • Options
    #15
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users Posts: 12,473 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Hearing "All I want for Christmas" by Mariah Carey one more f**king time....

    That's one of the best things about not having left the house since February, no inflicted hate crimes against my ears.


  • Options
    #16
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,619 ✭✭✭Feisar


    TuringBot47 wrote: »
    Yep, that would do it.
    Someone who broke into the house and coming up the stairs. I've a claw hammer at the side of the bed to explain the big mistake they made to them personally.

    You can legally use force against a burglar, within reason. You can't chase them as they try to escape but certainly stopping them from coming out in or trying to force them out, protecting your family etc.

    It is illegal to have something on standby as a weapon. You need something you can easily explain. In my case a Kukri since I collect knives.:pac:

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Options
    #17
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Salvie met his end not too long after. He was double crossed by his fathers Underboss, Nicodemo Scarfo. Shot in the the head and dumped in a ditch along the road from Philly to Atlantic City. 28 years old.

    I'd take salvies ending to that of his victims any day of the week, but to answer the question asked in the op, as already stated - mess with my kids or wife and that would probably do it for me. They're off limits.


  • Options
    #18
    Chiorino
    Registered Users Posts: 621 ✭✭✭Chiorino


    Feisar wrote: »
    It is illegal to have something on standby as a weapon. You need something you can easily explain. In my case a Kukri since I collect knives.:pac:

    "Well your honour, I'd been hanging up some picture frames the evening before and hadn't the chance to put the tools away before I went to bed"

    Different story if you chase him up the road and bludgeon him with a claw hammer then.


  • Options
    #19
    Mules
    Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Mules


    Salvie's death doesn't sound like a great loss to the human race. Sick fecker. These types live by the sword and then they are surprised when they die by the sword.


  • Options
    #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Feisar wrote: »
    It is illegal to have something on standby as a weapon. You need something you can easily explain. In my case a Kukri since I collect knives.:pac:

    I got an early gift of a Oneida Kestral Bow recently. Wonder how easy that would be to explain if I ever got questioned on it.


  • Options
    #21
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    I'd need to think I could get away with it.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #22
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    I’ve a few bodies under the belt meself, it’s gotten to the stage now where I don’t even bury them anymore, just leave them where they fall.


  • Options
    #23
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,609 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Must be awful to be so afraid, all the time, that you’d need a claw hammer beside your bed while you sleep.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Options
    #24
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,564 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Is this one of those moments in life for a boardsie where the OP got hilariously drunk and will wake up this morning thinking "what was I posting on boards last night, OMG!?" :D


  • Options
    #25
    WrenBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,614 ✭✭✭WrenBoy


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Must be awful to be so afraid, all the time, that you’d need a claw hammer beside your bed while you sleep.

    I've had a short bat in the weardrobe for years, never used it, never even had to think about it, its just there in case of worst case scenario. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.


  • Options
    #26
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Three things that cause people to kill -

    1. Blind rage.

    2. Extreme fear - usually for yours or someone else’s life.

    3. Revenge.


  • Options
    #27
    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Three things that cause people to kill -

    1. Blind rage.

    2. Extreme fear - usually for yours or someone else’s life.

    3. Revenge.

    You forgot the most obvious one.

    4. Putting empty wrappers back in the roses tin.


  • Options
    #28
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViyZGmBhvs


  • Options
    #29
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,637 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Self defence. I think any human, no matter their outlook on life, would kill to preserve their, or their families, life.


  • Options
    #30
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,107 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    WrenBoy wrote: »
    I've had a short bat in the weardrobe for years, never used it, never even had to think about it, its just there in case of worst case scenario. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

    Our home/shop was broken into by 6 you know whats when I was 15.

    I'd rather do a Nally than Nothing.
    Not scared, just prepared.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #31
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    bout tree fiddy


Advertisement