Burglar dies after AL homeowner catches him breaking into house, duct tapes mouth, ties him to tree

The London Daily Mail ^ | July 31, 2016 | The Associated Press and Staff

[gigster]

Maybe that’s the stuff they call 100mph tape.

[gigster]

Electrical tape is pretty much worthless for anything except wrapping wired connections. The only time I see electrical tape used on TV is when I'm watching Cops and there's a wayward alligator in someone's backyard. For the life of me I don't know why they wrap alligator's jaws with the stuff. Perhaps you've seen it.

[Paladin2]

It's also useful to put on the back of your balloon car to allow the radar to get a good reflection....

[arthurus]

In Alabama? Probably not.

[castlegreyskull]

There was no marks on the body. Unless he poisoned the man. They haven’t done an autopsy yet.

[lee martell]

What I don’t get is why he duct taped the burglar’s mouth in the first place. I see why it would be deeply satisfying to ‘shut that boy up good!’, but that step wasn’t necessary from the info I’ve seen.

[TigersEye]

I think he probably did both. He tied the guy’s hands behind his back pulling his shoulders and upper arms back. Tied in front his upper arms would give the chest a little buffer from the compression of the tape and clothesline.

Then he may have tied the chest real tight giving it little room to expand. He may have really gone overboard and wrapped tape/clothesline below the diaphragm preventing the abdomen from expanding and getting a breath that way.

Simply taping the mouth was bad. Most people couldn’t get enough breath through the nostrils when they’re excited. Combine that with restricting the chest and abdomen too much and that might be a perfect storm for suffocation. The article says the cops were there in ten minutes and he was already dead. Oh, and if he had asthma...

[TigersEye]

WTF? lol