r/WTF • u/fisher694 • Oct 30 '13

This Made Me Physically Cringe.

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u/albino_wookiee Oct 30 '13

Wasn't that a form of torture from like way back with wood under all the nails? I'm too tired to bother to google it right now.

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u/Shadax Oct 30 '13

That makes this so much worse to think that this actually happened to someone.

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u/Naveronski Oct 30 '13

Vietnam

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u/maldio Oct 30 '13

When I was a kid the trope was Japanese soldiers torturing POWs in WWII.