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Originally Posted by LabRat
Bruce, is that seriously what that thing is/was for?
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Unfortunately, yes. I went to an exhibit of that stuff while touring Europe as a student and was pretty much scarred for life after seeing up close what those things did to people.
I forgot the name of that particular device but its actually a toned-down version of the original. You might have noticed the weights attached to the person to add to the effect. In the turbo edition, the person was lifted up some 10 to 20 feet with an elaborate pulley system and dropped (also weighted down) precisely such that the tip of the pyramid would land directly on the tip of the coccyx (the last bone in the spine) pretty much crushing the vertebrate and the pelvis.
This was done repeatedly. The first ones were to soften up the victim. Then, over the course of days, weeks or longer, they would do it over and over.
Radar would have a ball with that thing.
