Black man found dead against tree with rope around his neck in NC: 'Not a lynching,' sheriff says - eviltoast
    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      D E D I C A T I O N

      Rope was wrapped around his neck, and wrapping rope around a rough or aoft object a few times can create enough friction to keep it from moving. So loop it around the neck a few times, and around the trunk a few times, and it will behave the same way as being tied on both ends with some tension if the loops are pressed against each other.

      So from a standing position loop it around the tree a few times, the neck a few times, and then sag so the friction keeps it in place. My understanding is that people who die from autoerotic asphyxiation sometimes have the rope looped around their neck without tightening it thinking it will slip off if they pass out but end up hanging themselves instead because it doesn’t slip off. Someone who is committing suicide could have the same end result if they left it untied just in case, but if it tightens and gets stuck they will still die from strangulation.

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        2 months ago

        That all sounds like a huge leap to me.

        I’m not gonna say it’s not possible and honestly I’d like to see the tree it happened on but if you’re gonna actually kill yourself with a rope a noose isn’t hard to learn to tie.

        I actually think it would be easier to learn to tie a noose than it would be to configure the rope in the way you described.

        This reeks of foul play. Like it’s practically dripping with it.

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          2 months ago

          I actually think it would be easier to learn to tie a noose than it would be to configure the rope in the way you described.

          I’m literally describing just winding a rope around a cylinder, then around another cylinder. It is also a way to intentionally set up a suicide, although it might be the least likely way that he died.

          Of course if he was really drunk or under the influence of some other drug it is also possible that something led to him wrapping rope around his neck and choking out. Or he had the rope around his neck, but died from some other means like an overdoes. There are dozens of things that could accidentally lead to death with a rope looped around the neck that are more likely that intentional suicide.