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Sat 16 Dec, 2006 08:50 pm
Having little to do on this sat night I was reading the Code of Hammurabi and came across this law. It's quite an interesting idea for functional justice.
If a man breaks down a wall of a house in an attempt to rob it (quite literally "breaking into") and is caught, his punishment will be to become sealed up inside the wall as a patch.
But will it play in Peoria?
let me ouuuut !
(i was only trying to peak in ; no need to seal me up !)
hbg
I think the failed burglar was also supposed to be An Example for the living and a guard against any evil spirits who might trouble the householder.
Okay for day one, but when that patch ripens, it is going to leak.
Roger--
Quote:Okay for day one, but when that patch ripens, it is going to leak.
Perhaps in a desert climate the miscreant was allowed to mummify before being interred?
Do you know how hard it is to try to apply mortar to someone who won't hold still?
sublime1 wrote:Do you know how hard it is to try to apply mortar to someone who won't hold still?
It is a source of no small degree of alarm to me that you, apparently, do!
No one was ever found, er I mean nothing was ever proven.
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