Midsomer Rhapsody

[wolf63]

I have been watching old episodes of Midsomer Murder - nice entertainment.

A couple of nights ago I watched an episode where an old guy was driving along the road on his moped, he encountered a wire at neck level and lost his head.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ctkJbN1-CuFlKwqAN-A1g97FBYONYPGmYV_tiiV8nZujhV5L3pwkJ5r9eXk-tC_ICGH2=s118 - not for those easily upset.

I know that doing this at high speed would probably cause decapitation but at the speed of a moped are they unrealistic to use this cause of murder?

Thanks for any answers

[Calibax]

Possibly if the wire was thin enough and tight enough.
I'm not sure MM always goes for realism though :o)
They seem to think up more and more bizarre ways to kill people.

[Calibax]

Mind you, real life can be pretty bizarre too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45281315

[wolf63]

Thanks for your answer - Midsomer Murders is not to be taken seriously. ☺

I wonder whether they have one person thinking up all possible ways to kill a person, they have used some really gruesome methods.

It's a bit like the A-team in that there are bodies everywhere but it isn't gruesome and violent. John Nettles is/was easy to watch.

Night !

[anotheoldgit]

/// John Nettles is/was easy to watch. ///

He was, I can't stand his replacement (Neil Dudgeon) so much so that I refuse to watch Midsomer Murders now.

[wolf63]

AOG
I agree with you that John Nettles was much better.

Bring back Z-cars!!

[maggiebee]

Oooh, I like Neil Dudgeon much more than I did John Nettles - different strokes for different folks!

[Dodger666]

There was a similar incident in the first episode of Foyle's War, "The German Woman". The German wife of a character, played by Robert Hardy, was riding her horse across a field and some one had stretched a wire across it. She was knocked off the horse and her throat was cut but her head didn't come off.