Editing Glasgow smile (section)

[[File:Glasgow_smile.jpg|thumb|A drawing depicting a Glasgow Smile.]]'''The Glasgow Smile''' (also known as the '''Chelsea Smile''' or the '''Glasgow Grin''') is a particularly brutal form of mutilation and [[torture]] believed to have originated in the streets of Glasgow during the era of the blade gangs, who would slash victims across the cheeks to give them a horrific "smile" due to scars.

The Chelsea Smile is a similar torture devised by [[Football Hooligans|football hooligans]] in which a victim's cheeks are sliced open, some exceptionally sadistic thugs were said to only inflict a small cut on either side of their victims mouth and put salt in the wound, causing the victim to scream and stretch the wound into a "smile".

A Glasgow Smile was found carved on the face of Elizabeth Short, better known as '''the Black Dahlia''', when she was found [[Murder of Elizabeth Short|brutally murdered]] in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947.