On Wed, 7 May 2008 07:20:47 -0700 (PDT), Mel Rowing
wrote:
>> > People who can't breathe can't scream anything!
>> Correct to a point.
>Correct to all points! Trust one who once thought his end was very
>nigh through asphyxiation. The most frightening aspect was that help
>was less than 10 yards away but I couldn't call for it.
That may have been true in your case. It is not true in all cases.
It is quite possible for the airway to be restricted so that there is
sufficient air to vibrate the vocal chords but insufficient air to
maintain an adequate blood oxygen level.
>It's to do with air passing through the voice box you see. Unless it
>does it cannot produce a single sound.
Quite. But strangulation does not need to cut off *all* the air in
order to be fatal.
>I don't know why this man stopped breathing but I'm convinced that he
>could at the moment he screamed that he couldn't if he did so scream
>and the report of this scream was not journalistic licence.
>
>Further, re the Mail photo. The officers knee was not across the man's
>neck. It was positioned in the nape. If a full grown man knelt with
>his full weight on another's neck whilst he was in a prostrate
>position on the floor, very severe damage would be caused indeed.
In this case it resulted in death. That's pretty severe damage.
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