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'''[[File:Pyle_pirate_plank_edited.jpg|thumb|285px]]Walking the Plank''' was a form of punishment thought to have been practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators (and the psychological torture of the victims), captives were forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship. | '''[[File:Pyle_pirate_plank_edited.jpg|thumb|285px]]Walking the Plank''' was a form of punishment thought to have been practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators (and the psychological torture of the victims), captives were forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship. | ||
==Historical instances of plank walking== | ==Historical instances of plank walking== | ||
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Although walking the plank plays a large role in contemporary pirate lore, in reality walking the plank was a very rare phenomenon, most pirates and mutineers having little reason to undertake elaborate psychological torture on their prisoners if they intended to kill them anyway. | Although walking the plank plays a large role in contemporary pirate lore, in reality walking the plank was a very rare phenomenon, most pirates and mutineers having little reason to undertake elaborate psychological torture on their prisoners if they intended to kill them anyway. | ||
== Trivia == | |||
* There is a ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' episode named "Walking the Plankton", which is a pun of words ''Walking the Plank''. | |||
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[[Category:Early Modern Villains]] | [[Category:Early Modern Villains]] | ||
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[[Category:Psychopath]] | |||
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[[Category:Sadists]] | |||
[[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]] | |||
[[Category:Serial Killer]] | |||
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[[Category:Barbarians]] | |||
[[Category:Wrathful]] | |||
[[Category:Arrogant]] | |||
[[Category:Misogynists]] | |||
[[Category:Vehicular Villains]] | |||