Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

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• cobbzilla 8 minutes 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
• N_Lens 2 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.
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  • paxcoder 1 hour 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.
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    • bluefirebrand 0 minutes 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
    • WelkinFolk 15 minutes ago
      Diabolically funny, you mean.
• JoeAltmaier 4 days ago
  Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).
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  • hermitcrab 4 days ago
    Indeed, I am sure there are other mechanisms that could cause similar trauma.
• Georgelemental 58 minutes ago
  More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331555
• b3ing 46 minutes ago
  Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing
• 27183 2 hours ago
  dude got absolutely rocked
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  • xprnio 1 hour ago
    What do you expect - it came in like a wrecking ball
  • kouunji 1 hour ago
    Didn’t feel it though, cuz he was stoned.