Can you really just hit someone on the head once to reliably knock them out

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TIP: Mar 21, 2006; Your move, creep.

The best version of this trope is in the show Patriot, where the main character is trained on how to knock a woman unconscious with a bike.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 00:08

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# ? Apr 20, 2024 17:34

ClamdestineBoyster: Aug 15, 2015; Can't post for 10 years!

It takes a long time to knock a girl out if you punch her in the boobs. Like she�ll probably get tired and go to bed eventually.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 00:11

Escape From Noise: Jul 27, 2004

When this is all over there are gonna be two hits: Me hitting you in the back of the head real hard and the judge hitting his gavel in judgement at the sentencing hearing for my murder trial.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 12:31

Torquemada: Oct 21, 2010; Drei GlÃ¤ser

Pitdragon posted:

That's why they teach cops to not hit your head with the clubs anymore

I recently rammed something very heavy into that nerve bundle on the side of my knee, a current favourite place to quell a perky suspect among law enforcement worldwide. I can recommend it if you want deeper understanding of the expression �exquisite pain�. Breathtakingly painful, way worse than a kick in the balls, but only lasts five minutes.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 14:56

JK Fresco: Jul 5, 2019

Torquemada posted:

I recently rammed something very heavy into that nerve bundle on the side of my knee, a current favourite place to quell a perky suspect among law enforcement worldwide. I can recommend it if you want deeper understanding of the expression ‘exquisite pain’. Breathtakingly painful, way worse than a kick in the balls, but only lasts five minutes.

Which side

# ? Sep 22, 2019 17:05

haljordan: Oct 22, 2004; the corpse of god is love.

My dad told me a story about being in a bar at age 14 (lol) with his older brothers. Two guys get into a fight over god only knows what, one guy throws a punch and the other falls backwards and cracks his skull on the floor. Died right there on the spot in a shithole bar in Rensselaer, NY. Pretty sure the puncher went up for manslaughter.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 19:21

Ugly In The Morning: Jul 1, 2010; Pillbug

haljordan posted:

My dad told me a story about being in a bar at age 14 (lol) with his older brothers. Two guys get into a fight over god only knows what, one guy throws a punch and the other falls backwards and cracks his skull on the floor. Died right there on the spot in a shithole bar in Rensselaer, NY. Pretty sure the puncher went up for manslaughter.

My senior year at UConn was the last time they did a big Spring Weekend for years because two guys got in a fight outside a pizza joint, one punched the other one time and he went down, cracked his skull, and died a week later. Puncher got 4 and a half years for manslaughter.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 19:24

JK Fresco: Jul 5, 2019

HAppens a lot. I saw this article a few weeks ago

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...154a_story.html

quote:

Handsome and gregarious, Ryan Diviney loved baseball and football as a youngster. An entire bookshelf in the Divineys� family room was devoted to trophies and game balls commemorating the boy�s triumphs � a grand slam one day, a homer, triple and two singles on another.

After graduating from Broad Run High School, Ryan Diviney enrolled at West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he had ideas about going into law. Maybe he would be a judge one day, he told his parents. Or a U.S. senator.

On Nov. 7, 2009, Ryan and a friend got into a verbal altercation with a group of young men outside a Dairy Mart convenience store in Morgantown. At one point, Jonathan May, a WVU student, sneaked up behind Ryan and punched him in the face.

Ryan fell to the ground, after which Austin Vantrease, 19, kicked him in the head, using a motion that a witness compared to �punting� a football, police said. Ryan�s jaw was broken, his skull was fractured in two places, and he was bleeding from his brain.

At the hospital, doctors told Ken and Sue Diviney that they could leave their son as he was and that he would probably die. Or they could remove part of his skull, allowing his brain to swell. In either scenario, doctors said their son might not live longer than 48 hours. His parents chose to have a portion of his skull plate removed.

May was later convicted of misdemeanor battery and sentenced to a year in prison. Vantrease, who was convicted of malicious assault, spent four years in prison before being paroled in 2014.

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For nearly a decade, Ryan Diviney existed in a vegetative state, a beating heart inside a paralyzed body, the result of being kicked in the head during a catastrophic beating that altered the course of his young life and the lives of those who loved him.

His father, Ken, who after the attack quit his job to devote himself to Ryan�s daily care at home, was beside his son when he died Saturday, at age 29, while they drove to a hospital in Winchester, Va.

As they sped toward Winchester, Ryan appeared to lose consciousness. Ken Diviney said he pulled over on the side of a road, instructed his wife to call 911 and administered CPR to his son.

By the time an ambulance arrived, Ryan had �stiffened up and his head dropped. He went limp,� his father said, his voice choked with tears. �I�m shattered. I knew it would come eventually, but I didn�t think it would hurt like this.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 19:34

Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Oh poo poo that's brutal.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 19:36

Kazak: Jan 10, 2012

comparing a man's kicked head to a football is a low blow

# ? Sep 22, 2019 20:54

Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

Yeah it's more of a handegg really

# ? Sep 22, 2019 20:57

DropsySufferer: Nov 9, 2008; Impractical practicality

No clue about just hitting someone in the head with a bat or something and knocking them out. I'd worry more about killing the person. Ask the CIA/FBI I guess.

What is a reliable way to get knocked out is a car accident. I've been hit from behind, completely stopped and even a moderate hit at low speed I've been knocked out for at least 30 seconds. Concussions it can take a few hours to get your bearings and took me a few days to recover.

^Yep football has it's risks.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 21:06

SilvergunSuperman: Aug 7, 2010

I think I got king henry viii'd playing hockey.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 21:20

Mooey Cow: Jan 27, 2018; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Pillbug

Remember that Canadian series called like... the Journey? Or the Voyage? No wait, the Odyssey, that's it. You know, kinda bad name considering there's this other thing which actually is "The Odyssey". How about "An Odyssey"? Well anyway a kid hits his head on a rock there and ends up in a hosed up world where there are no adults and the kids all form various tribes.

And there's a whole bunch of shows like that, like some show where all the adults have died from a virus and all the kids join into tribes and start making war on each other and whatnot. What's up with that? People who make kids shows really like Lord of the Flies or something?

Well that's what happens when you hit someone on the head, so don't do it. Unless you really have to. Like if you are a cave person on a date and you really like your date.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 22:25

Aoi: Sep 12, 2017; Perpetually a Pain.

When I was a kid, I saw the premise for that show, in the intro, probably, and just immediately thought 'oh, so he imagines it all due to a head injury, well, guess I don't need to watch this' and switched over to some other saturday morning garbage instead.

# ? Sep 22, 2019 23:05

TheMostFrench: Jul 12, 2009; Stop for me, it's the claw!

EimiYoshikawa posted:

When I was a kid, I saw the premise for that show, in the intro, probably, and just immediately thought 'oh, so he imagines it all due to a head injury, well, guess I don't need to watch this' and switched over to some other saturday morning garbage instead.

But what if adults were his hallucination and the head injury woke him up :aaaaa:

# ? Sep 23, 2019 12:44

Yolomon Wayne: Jun 10, 2014; You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is; Grimey Drawer

Burt Sexual posted:

So back to hitting people in the head with shovels!

Not guaranteed to work either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKiiyI2T04s&t=3s

# ? Sep 23, 2019 14:05

Torquemada: Oct 21, 2010; Drei GlÃ¤ser

JK Fresco posted:

Which side

The right. Looking at a medical diagram, the lateral collateral area.

# ? Sep 25, 2019 07:09

Wicker Man: Sep 5, 2007; Just like Columbus...; Clapping Larry

It's not the skull itself but the part in the back where the skull and neck come together. Do a slight Austin Powers judo chop there on yourself. You know you got it when you feel like your brain itself was rattled and get a slight headache that fades after a few seconds.

Go on, don't be shy....

# ? Sep 25, 2019 09:59

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# ? Apr 20, 2024 17:34

Escape From Noise: Jul 27, 2004

Wicker Man posted:

It's not the skull itself but the part in the back where the skull and neck come together. Do a slight Austin Powers judo chop there on yourself. You know you got it when you feel like your brain itself was rattled and get a slight headache that fades after a few seconds.

Go on, don't be shy....

Posting from hospital. Lost consciousness.

# ? Sep 25, 2019 10:21

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