Sire, it needs to be deep enough so that they can’t touch bottom when they stand up, and wide enough that they don’t have the stamina to swim or walk out.
Walking the plank was a method of execution 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 bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship.
I am reminded of a story I once heard. A castle in Scotland had what the invaders thought was a moat when it was attacked at night. The ditch was filled with thistles. The scream when the attackers dove in alerted the residents. Probably not true, but a could see the Scots filling a ditch with thistles.
Most famously, at Krumlov Castle in the Czech Republic there exists something that is most aptly described as a “bear moat”, located between the castle’s first and second courtyard. When exactly this practice started and exactly why has been lost to history, with the earliest known documented reference to the bear moat going back to 1707.Whether designed to serve as a stark warning to potential intruders, a status symbol, or both, the castle’s grizzliest residents were tended to by a designated bearkeeper until around the early 19th century when the practice ceased. This changed again in 1857 when the castle’s then resident noble, Karl zu Schwarzenberg, acquired a pair of bears from nearby Transylvania intent on reviving the tradition. From that moment onward, outside of a brief lapse in the late 19th century, the castle’s moat has almost always contained at least one bear.Today the bears are most definitely completely for show, and each year bear-themed celebrations are held at Christmas and on the bears’ birthdays during which children bring the bears presents.
GreasyOldTam over 5 years ago
Sire, it needs to be deep enough so that they can’t touch bottom when they stand up, and wide enough that they don’t have the stamina to swim or walk out.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Gonna need a deeper moat.
santa72404 over 5 years ago
Where’s all the rubber duckies?
Watcher over 5 years ago
Where’s the monsters? A giant bull shark would be a nice touch.
Dtroutma over 5 years ago
Alligators (or bears) instead of sharks?
Enter.Name.Here over 5 years ago
“I TOLD you getting rid of the alligators and their caretakers to help balance the Kingdom’s budget was a bad idea!”
HidariMak over 5 years ago
It may not be cross platform, but it definitely looks to be “open source”.
SNVBD over 5 years ago
Walking the plank was a method of execution 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 bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 5 years ago
The concept is sound. The ‘execution’ is poor.
Masterskrain over 5 years ago
But you COULD sell the concept to the International Olympic Committee, and make a tidy profit…
dot-the-I over 5 years ago
Captain Kidd sailing “Adventure” under a flag of an apple with a bite out of it.
the lost wizard over 5 years ago
The drawbridge seems a tad short to cross the moat.
mistercatworks over 5 years ago
Well, if it was any lower, it would just be “walking the pier”.
hfergus Premium Member over 5 years ago
I am reminded of a story I once heard. A castle in Scotland had what the invaders thought was a moat when it was attacked at night. The ditch was filled with thistles. The scream when the attackers dove in alerted the residents. Probably not true, but a could see the Scots filling a ditch with thistles.
JohnHarry Premium Member over 5 years ago
Wileydiles – it needs Wileydiles.
willie_mctell over 5 years ago
Alligators, the moat needs alligators.
Concretionist over 5 years ago
It turns out that, historically, most moats were just ditches lined with caltrops or the equivalent.
gcottay over 5 years ago
Just follow the API and all is good. Until it isn’t.
dsjwriter over 5 years ago
Obviously the beta release.
sixam over 5 years ago
Willey missed a chance to draw his bears.
Most famously, at Krumlov Castle in the Czech Republic there exists something that is most aptly described as a “bear moat”, located between the castle’s first and second courtyard. When exactly this practice started and exactly why has been lost to history, with the earliest known documented reference to the bear moat going back to 1707.Whether designed to serve as a stark warning to potential intruders, a status symbol, or both, the castle’s grizzliest residents were tended to by a designated bearkeeper until around the early 19th century when the practice ceased. This changed again in 1857 when the castle’s then resident noble, Karl zu Schwarzenberg, acquired a pair of bears from nearby Transylvania intent on reviving the tradition. From that moment onward, outside of a brief lapse in the late 19th century, the castle’s moat has almost always contained at least one bear.Today the bears are most definitely completely for show, and each year bear-themed celebrations are held at Christmas and on the bears’ birthdays during which children bring the bears presents.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/02/people-ever-put-crocodiles-moats/