
508. Six True Crime Stories from Victorian England, Told by My Dad
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Should We Bring Back the Stocks?
The stocks was an exercise in humiliation, as well as being very uncomfortable. And you had to sit there for six hours, kind of locked your ankles into this piece of wood in the market square. So that's what happened to Richard Savory, who was very drunk. He was very good light and beggar line, unsavory character. Okay. I think we should bring back the stocks so that extremely drunk individuals, you know, who on a Friday night or something, you might have got a bit too drunk, do you think they should be put in the stocks? You never knew how far it would go. But it's interesting that in Warwick, one of the last people
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