Person Dying From Pin

[BCLG100]

What do spoiler tags have to do with people you play with? What do you think he meant?

in my sig-'want to watch me play civ' the links following that are called spoilers, i thought he was making a joke at my expense but he wasnt so i apologised.

 

[Turner]

Alright, spoilers ahead:

Spoiler :

As I remember, there was a spot you could put a pin and that would cause the blood to enter the head, but not leave it. About the same as putting a clamp on one of the veins. The blood pressure in his head is what killed him: He had too much blood and it ruptured his vessels.

Accurate? I don't know. I don't know much about acupuncture. But as I recall, he removed the pin. I would have thought that with the pressure of the pin relieved, it would have allowed blood to flow normally. Then again, maybe he didn't remove the pin. It's been a while since I've seen the movie.

 

[BCLG100]

yers he did remove it, however during the whole thing and afterwards the man had rigomortis (sp?) which just raises another question, is that possible?

 

[Turner]

I would presume that the act of putting the pin in also paralyzed him. :shrug:

 

[BCLG100]

I would presume that the act of putting the pin in also paralyzed him. :shrug:

yep thats what i assumed but i just wondered whether this was also possible

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

Spoiler :

Just watching the end of Kiss of the Dragon and for those that havnt seen it, Jet li puts a needle in the back of someones neck and then said person dies. He says that it causes all the blood to rush to his head or something along them lines.

Well my question is, could you actually kill someone by putting a pin into the back of their neck-its a small one here so not some giant pin

You could kill someone like that, but it has nothing to do with blood. If you stab someone through the spinal cord at or above the third cervical vertebra, you will sever connection to the phrenic nerves, which supply the diaphragm, causing the person to stop breathing.

 

[El_Machinae]

i wish filmmakers wouldnt think we are idiots.

Pressure-points killing people, in horrible ways, is a staple of oriental action flicks. Like in Fist of the North Star, where people's heads exploded due to a pressure point.

 

[blackheart]

Jesus put a spoiler tag on that, El_machinae

 

[Sidhe]

You could kill someone like that, but it has nothing to do with blood. If you stab someone through the spinal cord at or above the third cervical vertebra, you will sever connection to the phrenic nerves, which supply the diaphragm, causing the person to stop breathing.

With a pin or a knife? Seems a bit far fetched with just a pin?

 

[BCLG100]

it was in the hands of jet li....

 

[Kozmos]

XD cheers for graphic violence.

 

[jimbob27]

It's definately rubbish. The blood rushing to your head thing is crap... only way you could kill somebody like this is to sever his spinal chord, and there's no way that pin was up to the job.

You'd need something substantially thicker and stronger to go through the protective tissues around the spinal cord. The needles they use for epidurals are really big and thick, not like what he used. Even if the needle was strong enough, you'd probably have to twist it round and poke it loads, because the cord is suspended in fluid, so it'd move out the way everytime the needle touched it.