The Brutal History Behind Tarring And Feathering

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  • @hullinstruments
    @hullinstruments 3 года назад +564

    If you don’t know the difference between pine tar or paving material…
    It’s your own asphalt
    😁

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 3 года назад +844

    As a Canadian, 'syruped and cattailed' sounds about right to me.

    • @nicholas5623
      @nicholas5623 3 года назад +20

      As a fellow Canadian, I'd have to agree lol

    • @uatu3021
      @uatu3021 3 года назад +5

      I always got the sense you were from somewhere in the UK.

    • @MichelleIbarraMHAEdD
      @MichelleIbarraMHAEdD 3 года назад +6

      🤣😂

    • @duncandmcgrath6290
      @duncandmcgrath6290 3 года назад +11

      There’s someone in the Rideau cottage that would be a suitable case for this punishment

    • @pinoymedicvlogs
      @pinoymedicvlogs 3 года назад +2

      @Phillosophy 😂🤣😂

  • @kris9259
    @kris9259 3 года назад +306

    I absolutely love this channel. I have learned so much while being entertained. I also watch all of your vids with my two teens. Thank you for your work.

    • @eoincoll384
      @eoincoll384 3 года назад +9

      👍❤🤍🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

    • @PhoenixLyon
      @PhoenixLyon 3 года назад +9

      Great that your teens are getting a more rounded view of history! Kudos, Mom and family!!✌🏻🐱

    • @ParisFashionista
      @ParisFashionista 3 года назад +3

      Same here!🥰

    • @one-re2ub
      @one-re2ub 2 года назад

      You learned about tar and feathering.

  • @Die-CastMetal
    @Die-CastMetal 3 года назад +195

    “The only lives that truly matter are those who respect the lives of others”.

    • @PhoenixLyon
      @PhoenixLyon 3 года назад +7

      Truer words hath never been spake, sirrah. ✌🏻🐱
      borrowed, with respect, from Chaucer and The Bard, William Shakespeare.

    • @PazuzuDarkVoid
      @PazuzuDarkVoid 3 года назад +1

      Utter nonsense :)))

    • @Die-CastMetal
      @Die-CastMetal 3 года назад +1

      @@sage4365 You’ve added something that isn’t there to begin with. Asking for clarification first is certainly another option though you are free to make it what you will regardless of my input. We are all only human.

    • @camtwan1
      @camtwan1 3 года назад +4

      @@PazuzuDarkVoid so someone who doesn’t respect the lives of others life matters? So someone that has 0 regard for how you feel physically or mentally. So murders, kidnappers, and sex slave holders, Etc. You’re saying their life matters?

    • @JM1993951
      @JM1993951 3 года назад +2

      People who don’t respect the lives of others are falling fast in the US.

  • @RWBprototype
    @RWBprototype 3 года назад +257

    If fthey want true punishment, super glue and glitter. Both are absolute nightmares to remove. You'll find glitter where you least expect it for months.

    • @gohawks3571
      @gohawks3571 3 года назад +1

      You must be a Mark Rober fan😉

    • @RWBprototype
      @RWBprototype 3 года назад +2

      @@gohawks3571 I don't understand the connection lol

    • @gohawks3571
      @gohawks3571 3 года назад +20

      I just realized you would probably think my reply was really weird without context, and now that I'm back my reply is gone... Mark Rober is a former NASA guy who got fed up with porch pirates, so he got revenge with glitter... I certainly wasn't trying to send a weird kinky link, and sorry if you thought so. His videos are quite interesting👍

    • @RWBprototype
      @RWBprototype 3 года назад +5

      @@gohawks3571 I didn't think that at all lol I was just asking

    • @gohawks3571
      @gohawks3571 3 года назад +2

      @@RWBprototype Oh, no, I had tried to send a link & it disappeared. Not sure if I did it wrong, or it was blocked somehow. But I thought I sent it, left, then realized, "Hmm, sent a random link about glitter.... OH NO!" 😁

  • @fashiondiva6972
    @fashiondiva6972 3 года назад +152

    In vase anyone is wondering, I did a deep dive and learned that the ex wife was convicted of assault and kidnapping and received a 2 year sentence. She and her equally insane sister were ordered to pay the victim $35,000 in a civil suit as well. Which it appears they hadn’t done as of 10 years after the verdict was issued. Shocking, I know🙄

    • @uuouuo5480
      @uuouuo5480 3 года назад +21

      Okay. But what is the significance of the vase you mentioned?

    • @donnadunlop7853
      @donnadunlop7853 3 года назад +2

      @@uuouuo5480 so cool. Really made me laugh. Thankyou x

    • @poutinedream5066
      @poutinedream5066 3 года назад +10

      She's lucky I wasn't the judge. I would have given both of them the max. And I am loving the new wife- not only did she still marry him, she had the wedding, wore the dress and took the pics! That trashy ex should've known those two were bout to get married and wasn't nothing gonna stop them.

    • @slickthemighty573
      @slickthemighty573 2 года назад +1

      The ex wife hopefully got her ass beat and humiliated in prison, that is so fucked up what she did... should've gotten a much harsher sentence.

    • @akalyx
      @akalyx 2 года назад +1

      ...dafuq

  • @rednecked7462
    @rednecked7462 3 года назад +171

    Everybody's hollering about politicians. They ain't enough birds In this world for that.

    • @jasonlogan5765
      @jasonlogan5765 3 года назад +3

      That's funny as phuk 🤣😆🤣

    • @ChickenMcThiccken
      @ChickenMcThiccken 3 года назад +4

      no. but we have enough tar to drown all of them in it.

    • @TheMoose126
      @TheMoose126 3 года назад +4

      @@ChickenMcThiccken drown them in the Saudi oil they love so much

    • @fawnieee
      @fawnieee 3 года назад +1

      @@TheMoose126 the rich who hoard all wealth and resources too, while we're at it

    • @therecalcitrantseditionist3613
      @therecalcitrantseditionist3613 3 года назад +1

      Id settle for zoning law officials. They are the lowest of the low

  • @jeffnaslund
    @jeffnaslund 3 года назад +107

    Humans have long had a knack for being cruel to each other

    • @garrisp
      @garrisp 3 года назад +7

      You must have never seen what animals in nature do to one of their own. I have on several occasions seen mothers of various species eat their own babies.

    • @beijingsbltch8226
      @beijingsbltch8226 2 года назад

      @@garrisp Not worse than what man does to animals.

  • @WILLIAM1690WALES
    @WILLIAM1690WALES 3 года назад +75

    An incident of tar and feathering occurred in Northern Ireland in August 2007 committed by Protestants on a local man who was said to have been a drug dealer.

    • @madmattgaming3951
      @madmattgaming3951 3 года назад +5

      Source? Would love to read more about it.

    • @guitarfreak521
      @guitarfreak521 3 года назад +2

      Source please.

    • @arntry8072
      @arntry8072 3 года назад +3

      Source and evidence or it didnt happen.

    • @LynnAgain83
      @LynnAgain83 3 года назад +2

      Good on them!!

    • @cryharder1877
      @cryharder1877 3 года назад +2

      Wish I was there, hope they did a good job on that SOB

  • @jockstrap
    @jockstrap 3 года назад +40

    This was a regular occurrence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s/80s and it happened many times a lot later than 1981 as stated in this video . It was seen as a milder form of punishment to drug dealers or burglars and car thieves, as opposed to being kneecapped with a hand gun, an assault rifle or in some cases an electric drill. If you were Tared and Feathered you could consider yourself lucky.

    • @akalyx
      @akalyx 2 года назад +2

      electric drill? that's so metal

    • @magicwandfour
      @magicwandfour 2 года назад +8

      I remember in Northern Ireland in the early 70s that Catholic girls were tarred and feathered if they "associated" with British soldiers.

    • @jockstrap
      @jockstrap 2 года назад +2

      @@magicwandfour Same thing happened in France in WW2

    • @sqseq1237
      @sqseq1237 2 года назад +5

      Yes. Besides pine tar, black paint was also used during the 1970s and 80s. Pine tar could still hurt, being around 140 degrees F.

    • @chloewright1
      @chloewright1 2 года назад

      @@akalyx that's so mental

  • @ArcherSuh4721
    @ArcherSuh4721 3 года назад +26

    Great video! I always figured the tar and feathers were symbolic of something back then. It's actually even more humiliating that it was just stuff that was on-hand. There wasn't any real thought put into it!

  • @280685MR
    @280685MR 3 года назад +31

    There was a tarring and feathering of a drug dealer in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2007. The paramilitaries tied the man to a lamppost and made the man wear a sign saying ‘I am a drug dealing scumbag’ while passers by recorded it on their phones.

    • @Rizzd.Commerce
      @Rizzd.Commerce 2 года назад +2

      That's amazing actually

    • @TurdFergurson
      @TurdFergurson 2 года назад +7

      Was he a drug dealer or did he just sell weed?

    • @OneAdam12Adam
      @OneAdam12Adam 2 года назад

      THAT'S A LIE! CAMERA PHONES WERE NOT A THING IN 2007.

    • @cokesquirrel
      @cokesquirrel 2 года назад +1

      Kyocera Released the 1st phone with video capabilities in 1999.

    • @jmack129
      @jmack129 2 года назад +4

      @@OneAdam12Adam the first iPhone came out in 2007 and there were phones with cameras before that

  • @lisahoshowsky4251
    @lisahoshowsky4251 3 года назад +46

    I was not expecting the last one, that was so out of left field

  • @ktric2007
    @ktric2007 3 года назад +36

    There was a man tarred and feather in 2008 in Northern Ireland. It was a common occurrence up till then.

  • @blainereed6143
    @blainereed6143 3 года назад +25

    You said Joseph smith was born in 1830 and he was Tarred and feathered in 1832. Just a heads up! Love your channel it’s the highlight of my days when you post
    New videos!

    • @davidpomeroy8124
      @davidpomeroy8124 3 года назад +10

      Im glad someone said something. He was born in 1805

    • @annekd729
      @annekd729 3 года назад +9

      What a naughty two year old

    • @davedadopefiend1985
      @davedadopefiend1985 3 года назад +2

      This! I was going to mention this mix up, but figured someone else smart enough to catch this mistake would have beaten me to it.

    • @JennyG.COW5
      @JennyG.COW5 3 года назад +1

      Maybe the narrator got so excited for including this that he confused the Church's Organization (birth if you will) with Joseph Smith. 🤔😉
      But hey, at least they were smart enough to include this portion of History as well as information about today's Church name and symbols. 😊👍

  • @adamwallace7638
    @adamwallace7638 2 года назад +19

    This entire time I assumed it was black tar and assumed it would kill you, or atleast cause massive permanent damage, I always felt it was overkill of a punishment, now I’m learning it’s pine tar.
    Still seems like overkill, but maybe the Crimes were bad

    • @humphreybumblecuck5151
      @humphreybumblecuck5151 Год назад

      If a crowd is angry at you better to be tarred and feathered than lynched. Maybe if people were allowed this outlet there would be less murders and assassinations

  • @timmaay7181
    @timmaay7181 3 года назад +23

    You sir have earned my respect for the George Brett reference.

    • @johnbockelie3899
      @johnbockelie3899 3 года назад

      Tarred and feathered, for the tough guys, Syrup and cat tailed for the wimps.

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 3 года назад +9

    Thanks for this! ⚫ I vividly recall first hearing about this horrific tradition from my father (way back in the 1970s).

  • @Johankenzeler
    @Johankenzeler 3 года назад +230

    If a politician does not achieve his/her promisses made during election, this would be a good punishment.

    • @HadrianDorian
      @HadrianDorian 3 года назад +17

      Trump

    • @1922Skidoo
      @1922Skidoo 3 года назад +16

      They’d all be made examples 👍🏻

    • @kl9411
      @kl9411 3 года назад +16

      Maybe we should bring this back

    • @Naldito15
      @Naldito15 3 года назад +4

      I don't think many corrupted ones would run

    • @robertgadling7217
      @robertgadling7217 3 года назад +6

      No one would ever run for President again.

  • @B.H.56
    @B.H.56 3 года назад +34

    Famous poem, "Skipper Ireson's Ride," by John Greenleaf Whittier -
    " Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart,
    Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart
    By the women of Marblehead! "
    He was the captain of a ship that went down, the women were the wives and mothers of the men who drowned while he saved himself.

  • @_will795
    @_will795 3 года назад +5

    You guys have been putting out some awesome videos lately

  • @lindsayjames8066
    @lindsayjames8066 3 года назад +15

    Correction: Joseph Smith was born in 1805 and founded the church in 1830.

    • @codename495
      @codename495 3 года назад +1

      He made up all that nonsense in only 25 years? Wow.

  • @averyisaiah1
    @averyisaiah1 3 года назад +86

    Can we bring this back? Lots of our government officials deserve this treatment.

    • @TexasNationalist1836
      @TexasNationalist1836 3 года назад +15

      Many government officials and every communist nazi and pedophile and rapists needs this

    • @pedenmk
      @pedenmk 3 года назад +8

      Haha yeah Avery. When I seen this video that was my first thought. There's several politicians who are deServing of this noble punishment

    • @tomgreen4520
      @tomgreen4520 3 года назад +10

      Just the democrats really

    • @averyisaiah1
      @averyisaiah1 3 года назад +9

      @@tomgreen4520 Some Rinos too!

    • @ninjascott7976
      @ninjascott7976 3 года назад +4

      Only if we can try it on you first. Since you're so interested I'm sure you'll volunteer right?

  • @sblacksmith7600
    @sblacksmith7600 3 года назад +30

    I don't know..."Tar &feathered" sounds so harsh. But I think I can get behind "syruped & cattailed LOL

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Год назад +1

    A+ video!
    Extremely enlightening! Had no idea it wasn't like the asphault, makes all the sense in the world now!

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 3 года назад +11

    Those tarring and feathering dudes looked like they were enjoying it entirely too much.

  • @Ankiul1
    @Ankiul1 2 года назад +5

    We need to bring this back a lot of folks in government are in need of a feather bath.

  • @everythingsillybilly88
    @everythingsillybilly88 2 года назад +16

    This is so much more tame than the other ancient punishments.

    • @humphreybumblecuck5151
      @humphreybumblecuck5151 Год назад +3

      It’s because it’s an enlightenment era “lynch mob” but more libertarian. You can voice your grievances without resorting to murder which is barbaric in comparison. Sounds like a good thing to me

  • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
    @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing 3 года назад +12

    When a drop of pine sap sticks to your fave shirt, knowing it won't ever truly wash out, it can _feel_ like a death sentence.
    One sympathizes.

  • @JohnGalt916
    @JohnGalt916 3 года назад +21

    I'm so happy you explained the Feathers. My dumb behind was like "so did they kill like 10 chickens cos they were mad at a guy?? Seems like a lot of work"

    • @toyotasupra97
      @toyotasupra97 3 года назад +3

      Yes because we don’t pluck the birds before we eat them, what a stupid comment

    • @LynnAgain83
      @LynnAgain83 3 года назад +7

      @@toyotasupra97 Ugh it must be so difficult carrying around all that anger.
      I'm sure you always have smart things to say though, don't ya?
      🙄

  • @Batz5150
    @Batz5150 3 года назад +6

    Thise announcer is one of the greatest of our times. Who arrrrrrre you? Keep doing it! Your going to be one of the greatest of all times and have a long career in being a vocal bad ass. ALL HAIL WEIRD HISTORIES ANNOUNCER!

  • @mrfingers7243
    @mrfingers7243 3 года назад +2

    Wow, I was just thinking about this. Thank you Weird History! 🤜

  • @jimmygrant424
    @jimmygrant424 3 года назад +3

    Thank you for the simple fact that this may be a forgotten thing in our past but somehow I manage to remember it just enough to threaten to do it to folks every now and then!!!

  • @JamieHumeCreative
    @JamieHumeCreative Месяц назад

    People like this are still around. So much for a civilized and enlightened humanity.

  • @ferretwithagun9886
    @ferretwithagun9886 3 года назад +77

    Actually this happened to a kiddy diddler in my town in the early 90’s. Ultimately he was killed but it was kept quiet and the men that did it were never found. (Nobody was looking). The shotgun blast to the face was the cause of death.

  • @zeuovelightning3510
    @zeuovelightning3510 2 года назад +3

    This Horrifies me that punishment like these are going on today.

  • @perfectfae3534
    @perfectfae3534 3 года назад +5

    I love that she still had her wedding...

  • @TheCatzMeowMix
    @TheCatzMeowMix 3 года назад +17

    I have never heard of Pine Tar. When people would refer to Tar and Feather… I also would think of regular Tar. I love to learn new things all the time… no matter how small or insignificant it might be. Interesting. I always thought people would DIE from this from burns. Thanks for putting this up. Meow.

  • @lisavaccaro9700
    @lisavaccaro9700 3 года назад +5

    Whoaaaa! The last example really surprised me!

  • @heyheytaytay
    @heyheytaytay 3 года назад +20

    Not just Joseph Smith but several Mormon men and leaders were tarred & feathered, beaten and/or murdered while Mormon pioneers made their trek west toward Utah. This especially happened in Navoo, Illinois.

    • @Guy-cb1oh
      @Guy-cb1oh 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, Including my ancestor. They lit fire to his barn and when he went to put the fire out, they shot him in the back.

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan 3 года назад +3

      before or after the mountain meadow massacre?

    • @panchopistola8298
      @panchopistola8298 3 года назад +5

      Welllll they asked for it in a lot of ways .

  • @jennystout8600
    @jennystout8600 3 года назад +84

    People in the comments section: "Bring it back! Bring it back!"
    Video: "It follows that when something so dangerous is so accessible, it's bound to fall into the hands of the worst kind of people."

    • @xryxix
      @xryxix 3 года назад +4

      That part...

    • @jennystout8600
      @jennystout8600 3 года назад +9

      @@sage4365 Acid attacks are obviously way worse, but the same mentality ("these people deserve it!") is behind them both.

    • @Kevs442
      @Kevs442 3 года назад

      Oh, you just made the list Missy!

  • @lizzybearstar1661
    @lizzybearstar1661 3 года назад +2

    Love this channel makes learning enjoyable

  • @maryrhudy9250
    @maryrhudy9250 3 года назад +22

    I'm 58 years old. When I was in elementary school the textbooks used cartoons from the day to teach us that this was a funny thing to do to someone. No. This was torture, and the process would throw the victim into such physical shock that many were killed by it. The colonial governor we tarred and feathered during the Revolution was still picking cooked flesh off his body for years afterward. Till his death, he saved some of the huge chunks of cooked skin and muscle that had dehydrated. And just because there is no reference to anyone dying of the process does not mean it didn't happen. Records were usually only kept by the victors. This information is from the victim's diaries and accounts by other court officials.

    • @helloidharbl6753
      @helloidharbl6753 2 года назад +1

      Let's create a hypothetical, more modern example.
      The son of a local judge is well known for dealing meth to kids, burglary, public intoxication, and an unhealthy interest in children. He will not be locked up, he will pay no fines.
      Maybe lets round up about 30 people, some pinetar and pillows and teach him the error of his ways.

    • @v3ck1n
      @v3ck1n 2 года назад

      Lady, go cry about it somewhere else

    • @sqseq1237
      @sqseq1237 2 года назад +1

      Pine tar was actually used. Which governor are you talking about?

    • @maryrhudy9250
      @maryrhudy9250 2 года назад

      @@sqseq1237 Massachusetts. of course.

    • @sqseq1237
      @sqseq1237 2 года назад

      @@maryrhudy9250 Which Massachusetts governor?

  • @ginasreview1030
    @ginasreview1030 3 года назад +1

    I seriously LOVE your channel.♡

  • @Lol-ll5gh
    @Lol-ll5gh 3 года назад +24

    Learned more on this channel than I did in high school 😭

    • @eoincoll384
      @eoincoll384 3 года назад +3

      Finally someone I was going to say that but thank you

    • @jr2904
      @jr2904 3 года назад +2

      @@eoincoll384 you didn't learn how to create a coherent sentence, that's for sure

  • @sonnyhootman9811
    @sonnyhootman9811 3 года назад +5

    Here in Farmington, Iowa the town I grew up in, they tarred and feathered the newspaper editor in 1908 over some stories he published.

  • @lucasglowacki4683
    @lucasglowacki4683 3 года назад +21

    Ahhhh….the days when we held public figures, politicians and clergy without favouritism and publicly punished them for misdeeds not worthy of their titles!

  • @calvaryapologetics
    @calvaryapologetics 9 месяцев назад +1

    Remember, mormon founder joseph smith was tarred and feathered for being over-familiar with a pair of brothers' young sister.
    He was also to be castrated on the spot but the doctor present chickened out.

  • @davethomas543
    @davethomas543 3 года назад +41

    We need to bring this back for our politicians !!!!!

    • @edgarbanuelos6472
      @edgarbanuelos6472 3 года назад +2

      I've been saying this for months. Of course being the edgy person that I am I also propose we carve their sins into their forehead so that any time they try to speak publicly the whole world will know of their sins.

    • @mayadub2271
      @mayadub2271 3 года назад +1

      Dave, no. We shouldn't.

  • @jaelge
    @jaelge 3 года назад +4

    I would advocate that every tenth politician in Congress, of both parties, at random be treated suchly.

  • @aileenhovorka9207
    @aileenhovorka9207 3 года назад +3

    Marvellous! Thank u!

  • @agnettete
    @agnettete 3 года назад +1

    Really great content! The narrator is just awesome!

  • @wadeb5042
    @wadeb5042 3 года назад +3

    Joseph Smith was born in 1805. The church was officially organized in 1830.

  • @geoffduke1763
    @geoffduke1763 3 года назад +1

    Northern Ireland here....The last person tarred and feathered was in 2007. A drug dealer punished by the paramilitaries. Previously in 2003 two teenage boys were tared and feathered again by paramilitaries, there is a news report about it on youtube.

  • @WaylonCampbell
    @WaylonCampbell 3 года назад +7

    So Joseph Smith was born in 1830 and then was tarred and feathered in 1832 at the age of 2? Already with a baby, boy does quick work.

    • @TeresaWells-y7g
      @TeresaWells-y7g 7 месяцев назад

      But he was supposed to be in his 20’s so which is it 1832 or 1852???????

  • @JSonMaui
    @JSonMaui 3 года назад +3

    Joseph Smith was born in 1830 and tarred and feathered in 1832. I don’t think so.

  • @arynheath2381
    @arynheath2381 3 года назад +4

    Joseph Smith was not born in 1830, guys. He was born in 1805.

  • @mayadub2271
    @mayadub2271 3 года назад +1

    This comment section should be turned off. Unpleasant comments about punishments could scare a lot of others. I know it's not all of you. Just some of you. Please, please, please, please show respect when talking about these Unpleasant things.

  • @gracecochran8243
    @gracecochran8243 3 года назад +7

    I first heard of “tar and feathering” as a child via Liberty’s Kids and honestly I thought they used asphalt. Lol I was so confused with how this wasn’t a straight death sentence (actually I think I believed that it was)

  • @josephrobertvanderhoff8281
    @josephrobertvanderhoff8281 3 года назад +1

    I love the Narrator , You can tell he loves what he does ...I wish I knew his name ....Amsterdam loves you . And weird History .

  • @KennyRider137
    @KennyRider137 3 года назад +4

    The Whiskey Rebellion had so much tarring and feathering it brought the US Army out in force. Would've made a great example for this video.

  • @patrickdehertogh2080
    @patrickdehertogh2080 2 месяца назад +1

    I'm really all for the tarring and feathering for anyone holding a government job. The winning point for me was abuse of public trust for say a somewhat roll model. Bring back tarring and feathering. Sign the petition!!

  • @kingoliever1
    @kingoliever1 3 года назад +14

    "your sentence is getting your hair ruined seriously" sounds not so terrible

  • @arrjay2410
    @arrjay2410 3 года назад +1

    In Canada, the British Loyalist in the American Revolution are called 'Untied Empire Loyalist'. Many of them once they crawled out of the ditch or swamp they had been thrown into, after being tarred and feathered, packed up their things and moved to Canada.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 3 года назад +25

    I remember that scene from the movie The Blues Brothers When the Ku Klux Klan got tarred and feathered.

    • @PhoenixLyon
      @PhoenixLyon 3 года назад +6

      Couldn't have happened to a better 'krew'. LOL ✌🏻🐱

  • @shibbymiyah6614
    @shibbymiyah6614 3 года назад

    That was a really good documentary...well done

  • @ingridfong-daley5899
    @ingridfong-daley5899 3 года назад +4

    I binge a lot of true crime, and I'm always wondering what kind of punishment we could inflict on child abusers in particular. I don't know how it didn't cross my mind, having grown up Mormon, that Joseph Smith's neighbours had come up with the solution 200 years ago.
    Shaving, tarring, and feathering genitals sounds like a step in the right direction.
    It's not quite 'going medieval' but 'going 19th century' has a decent ring to it, and making their punishment visible sounds like an effective public service, more than simply 'registering as an offender' might do on its own.

  • @SilhouetteSE
    @SilhouetteSE 3 года назад +9

    How did they get the tar to come off the skin? Would it just peel off eventually?

    • @eoincoll384
      @eoincoll384 3 года назад +2

      Why

    • @kameronjones7139
      @kameronjones7139 3 года назад +4

      Well sometimes it didn't and some skin would come with it

    • @-NateTheGreat
      @-NateTheGreat 3 года назад +4

      Yes with a few layers of skin attached

    • @eoincoll384
      @eoincoll384 3 года назад +5

      Ouch that's so sad what happened to the poor people 😢

    • @SilhouetteSE
      @SilhouetteSE 3 года назад +1

      @@-NateTheGreat I was wondering about that, 'cause the video says tarring never caused serious health damage. But that sticky stuff did had to come off somehow.... Like, how were thay able to clean up Joseph Smith so fast that he could preach later on the same day?
      If layers of skin were typically lost on the process, it would lead to infection, which back in those days could result in death.

  • @janethenry1405
    @janethenry1405 3 года назад +23

    Great punishment for evil and corrupt politicians!!

    • @TexasNationalist1836
      @TexasNationalist1836 3 года назад +5

      and communists

    • @lauriemarie6902
      @lauriemarie6902 3 года назад +2

      Oh doll you know it for sure honey. Philadelphia USA

    • @mayadub2271
      @mayadub2271 3 года назад +1

      Janet, no.

    • @grey_apache
      @grey_apache 2 года назад +2

      The idea if torturing someone based on political ideology is truly horrible. Shame on you.

  • @LiseandRobsTravelAdventures
    @LiseandRobsTravelAdventures 3 года назад +3

    Would love to see Elizabeth's wedding album!

  • @howamilooking5952
    @howamilooking5952 3 года назад +6

    Thanks for George Brett joke. This is so evil. Good work.

  • @TheTarrMan
    @TheTarrMan 3 года назад +1

    Is there a recent picture of Elizabeth Jamieson? Does she still have scars? They still married? What did it feel like going on? What did it feel like coming off? Those other two still in jail? I have so many questions. That's messed up.

  • @vipergtsmre
    @vipergtsmre 3 года назад +6

    Geeeez, I hope they had some form of Acetone back then

  • @gerardvongyw670
    @gerardvongyw670 3 года назад

    Just found your channel very interesting thanks

  • @Justinsatiable
    @Justinsatiable 3 года назад +34

    Let's bring it back but with honey and that art glitter that gets stuck in your clothes forever

    • @Mi_Fa_Volare
      @Mi_Fa_Volare 3 года назад +1

      Don't waste food, man.

    • @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing
      @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing 3 года назад +1

      It's a fine, kinky line between honey and glitter and whipped cream topped with candy sprinkles.

  • @amyfisher6380
    @amyfisher6380 3 года назад +48

    I remember that tarring and feathering scene from “John Adams”. I could barely sit through it. And of course, our hero John Adams was quite appalled over it.

    • @coloneljackmustard
      @coloneljackmustard 3 года назад +14

      I know that was perhaps the most vivid scene from an extremely strong and well done series. Still stands out in my mind 13 years later.

    • @Jay.McCarty
      @Jay.McCarty 3 года назад +4

      ...should do Keelhauling next. There's a pretty sobering depiction of it in Black Sails.

    • @kl9411
      @kl9411 3 года назад +5

      They made us watch this in hs and I have never gotten over it

    • @perfectfae3534
      @perfectfae3534 3 года назад +3

      @@kl9411 That's messed up! Did they at least warn people about the violence? A lot of ppl (me included) can't watch violence because we have PTSD & it is too traumatic for us.

    • @kl9411
      @kl9411 3 года назад

      @@perfectfae3534 honestly it’s been like 10 years since it happened so I don’t remember but I would at least hope they did

  • @2007cgarza
    @2007cgarza 3 года назад +4

    Could you do an episode on "branding heretics" around the 12th century?

  • @endurancegoliath4569
    @endurancegoliath4569 3 года назад +15

    Joseph Smith was born in 1805, not 1830. If he was born in 1830, he would have been tarred and feathered at the age of 2...a bit harsh to punish a toddler like that...if he was born in 1830 like was said in the video, but he was born in 1805

    • @markrichards6863
      @markrichards6863 3 года назад +2

      Yeah, but he was still a con man

    • @aisaxonawiat6484
      @aisaxonawiat6484 3 года назад +1

      @@markrichards6863 ...... You know nothing about him except the propaganda.

    • @markrichards6863
      @markrichards6863 3 года назад +2

      @@aisaxonawiat6484 Joseph Smith was a con man, who claimed his magic seer stones translated fake gold tablets that mysteriously disappeared. He was a pervert that believed it was okay to force under age girls into polygamous relationships with dirty old men like Brigham Young. You know nothing about him.

    • @beijingsbltch8226
      @beijingsbltch8226 2 года назад

      @@aisaxonawiat6484 I know enough about the fraud. If you're LDS, you should learn the Truth that is Jesus the Christ.

    • @JT-ly1gp
      @JT-ly1gp 2 года назад +1

      @@markrichards6863 ..... I know a lot more than you do and all of my information is factual. Joseph Smith never said any of those things you are claiming..... Real research is difficult, and even painful because it is time consuming and requires a lot of effort if you want to get to the truth, but people like you get your truth off of watching a RUclips video Or reading anti pamphlets that have been thrown together.

  • @chiefslinginbeef3641
    @chiefslinginbeef3641 3 года назад +50

    In light of the last two years seems we should bring this back for politicians and bureaucrats.

    • @bnhik
      @bnhik 3 года назад +7

      I could see this happening to Dr. Fauci

    • @Yummicookie1979
      @Yummicookie1979 3 года назад +1

      @@bnhik love your name.

    • @CEOkiller
      @CEOkiller 3 года назад

      The My Pillow guy…

    • @TheMoose126
      @TheMoose126 3 года назад +2

      Tarred, feathered, and put into stocks for a full week. I think a solid, humiliating week of letting EVERYONE have a crack at them might straighten out some of this hogshit we've been letting them get away with for the last 75 years.

    • @charlenecotton7516
      @charlenecotton7516 3 года назад

      Where's the beef?

  • @markkover8040
    @markkover8040 3 года назад +2

    Interesting. What about the punishment/embarrassment of 'riding a person out on a rail'? What is the history and meaning of that?

  • @beesnest8772
    @beesnest8772 3 года назад +3

    Wonder how long it took for it to come off

  • @villain68
    @villain68 3 года назад +2

    I'm glad I watched this. For decades I believed that pouring tar on people would kill them due to the intensity of the heat. I always believed it to be like °500 degrees but seems more like room temperature, Hersheys syrup.

    • @Violetbunnyfish
      @Violetbunnyfish 3 года назад +1

      It's neither. As the video explains, the pitch was still hot enough to cause burns. I mean, just look at one of the pictures from the article. It's a photo of a man with burns on his chest from being tarred and feathered. Also, he talks about how hot the pitch gets in the video.

  • @Cinemaphile7783
    @Cinemaphile7783 3 года назад +4

    No taxation without representation!

  • @notrelatedtotom
    @notrelatedtotom 3 года назад +1

    Love the George Brett reference 👌

  • @Truckngirl
    @Truckngirl 3 года назад +4

    OOoh!!! The George Brett incident! You didn't!

  • @made-line7627
    @made-line7627 3 года назад +2

    I just can't believe they'd give up their pillows for that!

  • @Skatha
    @Skatha 3 года назад +14

    Fun fact, in Finland we have tar in sodas and in booze 😂 also essentials oil to be thrown on sauna stove to create a nice smell

    • @meatballsandwich5329
      @meatballsandwich5329 3 года назад +1

      wtf lmao interesting

    • @VicksWezaleff
      @VicksWezaleff 3 года назад

      I read a medieval recipe for mead that includes a ball of pine tar. Nice to see it's always been used. Does it taste....piney?

  • @lauriemarie6902
    @lauriemarie6902 3 года назад +1

    You know something my 100 year old grandmother did mention this a couple times AMEN. Philadelphia USA

  • @KingTone510
    @KingTone510 3 года назад +9

    I would like to see a video on the history of Necklacing

    • @rodneyspider9452
      @rodneyspider9452 3 года назад +1

      Saw it on Pornhub. Oh you mean the other type.

    • @KingTone510
      @KingTone510 3 года назад +1

      @@rodneyspider9452 😐

  • @Davofromdownunder65
    @Davofromdownunder65 3 года назад +1

    You said that Joseph Smith was born in 1830 and tarred and feathered in 1832....that makes him two years old

  • @bilindalaw-morley161
    @bilindalaw-morley161 3 года назад +5

    The guy bending over, covered in white feathers, with straps or reins around his thighs looks really happy to be there. Are you *sure* it was always a punishment?

  • @lindac6919
    @lindac6919 2 года назад +1

    I think being tarred could eventually cause death, through persistent and recurring infection. They are burn victims. The amount of skin affected is as damaging as the severity of the burn.

  • @danielmorris6584
    @danielmorris6584 3 года назад +36

    We need to bring this back... politicians take heed

  • @chloejohnson6861
    @chloejohnson6861 3 года назад +1

    I'm sure it still happens. Nothing ever goes away completely. I hope no one is actually burned with modern tar though, something like this should just be for humiliation.

  • @elizabethbarringer2791
    @elizabethbarringer2791 3 года назад +4

    Just love when I get what I want. Thank you great video.

    • @eoincoll384
      @eoincoll384 3 года назад +3

      👍

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 3 года назад +1

      Get this: Another Tarring and Feathering incident with women involved happened in 1906, when several young Pennsylvania housewives, believing another woman to be engaging in immoral and evil behavior, burst into her home and poured molasses-based tar on her with the feathers. They then forced her outside, marched her down to the railroad tracks and left her tied to a crate in front of hundreds of (understandably) shocked workmen. Luckily for her, one of the men took pity and released her not long after.

  • @abuzaine3956
    @abuzaine3956 3 года назад +2

    The show on John Adams demonstrates the brutality of feathering and tarring.

  • @roxyloveslucy
    @roxyloveslucy 3 года назад +3

    as a 4 y.o. kiddo with my older siblings, we discovered a leftover tar dump in a ditch from a road crew. I got stuck to it so bad my clothes were pulled off me, i was tar covered head to toe. Even my hair! And had to walk all the way home like that. My poor momma had to get all that tar off me. LOL

    • @mayadub2271
      @mayadub2271 3 года назад +3

      Are you telling the truth?

    • @roxyloveslucy
      @roxyloveslucy 3 года назад +2

      @@mayadub2271 1960's. Yep. Upstate NY where my dad was stationed. Sadly it's true. LOL

    • @mayadub2271
      @mayadub2271 3 года назад

      @@roxyloveslucy Are you actually telling the truth?

  • @benjamindover4337
    @benjamindover4337 3 года назад +2

    I feel like the guy getting tarred and feathered might not just forgive and forget.

  • @toptiermess
    @toptiermess 3 года назад +3

    a moment of silence for the people in the comments saying “tared” instead of “tarred”

  • @badwellasia4898
    @badwellasia4898 3 года назад +1

    We had an incident of tar and feather of a professor at the University of Stellenbosch Western Cape South Africa in the early 1980s.