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 FAST ROPE



   Lynching, this was a legal execution.  You're a reporter and you don't
know about the law that was passed a while back.  Just got cleared by the
high court a couple of weeks ago and it took a while to get ready so I
guess that this is the first time it's been used around here.  Anyone
caught in the act of committing a serious crime can be executed on the spot
if all the rules are met.  Got to have a officer of the court or a sworn
officer of the law [ that's me] and two citizens [that's them over there]
witness the crime and be willing to sign all the forms.  Perpetrator has to
be over twelve and not clearly drunk or crazy and you need two witnesses to
watch the execution [that's them over there] and who are willing to sign
some paper too.  We had all that so we carried out the command of the law.
No, I don't know who she was, the M.E.  will figure that out so until he
does you can't use any pictures of her face or her name if you find out
what it was.  We got to do the notifying of the family first.  Yah I can
tell you what happened, I was walking my beat when I heard three shots,
fast and close.  Sounded like they came from the watch shop.  I come a
running and see this girl come out the door carrying a gun and a bag.  She
turns and runs into that big guy over there and they both go ass over elbow
and she loses the bag and the gun.  The bag spills open and dumps out a
pile of watches.  Nice ones, worth a bunch each.  About then somebody is
yelling about how the shop owner has been shot so I do a fast frisk and
cuff job on her and have the big guy sort of sit on her while I sort things
out.  Old Mr.  Jenks took two to the head and was deader then hell while
the other guy got missed.  No you can't use his name until we get through,
you know that.  I got thinking about the new rules and figured that we had
everything needed to fast track the bitch.  I called in and talked to the
boss and he said if the citizens were willing to sign there was no reason
for him to even see her until she was naked on a slab down at the morgue. I
explained it all to the witnesses and to the bystanders and got more than
enough to sign.  The guy that owns the store next door to Mr.  Jenks had
this nice hunk of rope handy so we got to it.  Law doesn't say how you have
to execute them but hanging seemed like as good a way as any so we threw
the rope over that lamp post and strung her up.  No she wasn't naked when
she did the shooting.  I wasn't happy with the frisking I had done and I
needed to be sure that she was old enough so we stripped her first.  Them
tits are all the proof I need about her age, no twelve year old ever had a
rack like that or that nice of a fat plump pussy either.  No that isn't a
proper hangman's noose either.  No one knew how to tie one so we just
looped it around her neck and tied it off before we hauled her up.  Worked
well enough, she's sure as hell dead as you can see even though we'll let
her hang for an hour or so just to be sure.  Yah maybe it would have been
better if we had tied her right, might have been quicker but we got the job
done.  How long did it take?  Hell if I know I wasn't timing but I guess
maybe ten or twelve minutes even if at the end all she was doing was
twitchin and pissin.  Put up a hell of a fight at first though.  Got her
hands free just after we got her off the ground but it didn't help any. 
She soon got too weak to hold herself up while she was kicking and runnin.
That stopped quick enough and then all she was doing was gasping and
getting on with her dying.  Funny thing though most of the bystanders kind
of paired up and disappeared right after she died, guess that they found it
kind of exciting if you know what I mean.  Was a hell of a show .  Do it
again?  Shit yes, there's no down side.  We can go tell the Jenks family
that the killer has been punished, we got some serious citizen involvement
here, we saved a lot of time and money, and who knows maybe some little
piss ant will be to scared that he might be the next one if he doesn't
change his ways.  Only regret I got is nobody got a tape of it, damn.