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As crazy as it sounds, this was a real punishment. Not a legal punishment, but for those unofficial moments when something had to be done. It was used mostly by mobs when communtiy standards were breached. Cowards, deserters and in old California, for wifebeaters and such vermin. Thank goodness, by the turn of the 20th century Law and Order took the place of the tar and feathers, except for rasist whites in the South.

After hearing about these old-fashioned crime deterrents, I don't long for 'the good old days'.

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