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Iran Rolls Out 'Finger-Chopping Machine'
newser.com ^ | Jan 27, 2013 | Neal Colgrass

Posted on 01/28/2013 3:38:02 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

After publicly hanging two muggers, Iran has released photos of an apparent finger-chopping machine used for punishing criminals. The four images show a convicted robber and adulterer losing a finger before he is sentenced to 99 lashes and three years in prison, according to state media. But he shows no sign of pain during the terrifying ordeal—perhaps because he has been drugged, reports France24.

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1 posted on 01/28/2013 3:38:08 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Odungo would use a few of these so no one would point a finger at him


2 posted on 01/28/2013 3:45:05 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Li’l Kim will be furious with envy!


3 posted on 01/28/2013 4:43:24 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Bread and Circuses; Everyone to the Coliseum!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Surprised these heathens didn’t cut off his “middle finger” being he is an adulterer.


4 posted on 01/28/2013 4:48:50 AM PST by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

NASA should be pleased.....hows that islamic self esteem working?


5 posted on 01/28/2013 4:56:11 AM PST by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Gonna cut off our trigger fingers?


6 posted on 01/28/2013 6:07:32 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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Gonna cut off our trigger fingers?

As soon as I posted this I remembered seeing a video of guy with no arms shooting with his feet.

7 posted on 01/28/2013 6:22:08 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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looks like a bandsaw


8 posted on 01/28/2013 6:51:01 AM PST by 09Patriot (your freedom to be you, includes my freedom to be from you.--Wilkow)
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looks like a bandsaw


9 posted on 01/28/2013 6:51:19 AM PST by 09Patriot (your freedom to be you, includes my freedom to be from you.--Wilkow)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Old story that the V for Victory sign comes from the Hundred Years War, when the French would chop off the fingers of captured English longbowmen. So the English waved these fingers at the French to taunt them.

Probably not true, since it’s a lot more likely the French just killed any of these low-born guys who dared to kill nobles.


10 posted on 01/28/2013 6:56:13 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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