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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet (www.science.org)
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[–] 12 points 2 months ago

I guess they’ll finally have to stop marketing them as “less-lethal” weapons.

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    First confirmed yeet?

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    To be the bearer of some slightly disappointing news: the article makes clear in the end that evidence points to the man having been killed by a thing launched from a trebuchet, not that he himself was the thing launched from a trebuchet.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Love the headline! So the trebuchet catapulted ahead of Da Vinci's siege crossbow?

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