ext_3375: Banded Tussock (Banded Tussock)
Nile ([identity profile] hairyears.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] danohu 2014-09-28 02:35 pm (UTC)

Garrotting was a thing in 19th Century London: in part, the media-driven fear of it (and the draconian legislation that resulted) would be familiar to students of the Daily Mail today; but part of that fear was genuine, because London had some enthusiatic early adopters of this effective and efficient innovation in street robbery.

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