Curb stomp
A curb stomp, also called curbing, curb checking, or making someone bite the curb is a form of assault in which a victim's mouth is forcefully placed on a curb and then stomped from behind, causing severe injuries and sometimes death.[1][2]
Notable incidents
- In 2000, Tacoma, Washington resident Randall Townsend was killed by two people in a curb-stomping incident that has been described as a hate crime.[3]
- On August 26, 2011, Dane Hall was curb stomped in a homophobic attack outside a gay bar in Salt Lake City, Utah. He lost six teeth and suffered a broken jaw as a result of the attack.[4]
- On Juli 2002 the 16-years old Marinus Schöberl was tortured by young neo-nazis in an abandoned pigsty in Potzlow (Eastern Germany) and killed after curb-stomping.[5]
Cultural references
In the film American History X (1998), a white power skinhead curb stomps a black burglar who had tried to steal his truck.[6][7]
New Jersey mafia boss Tony Soprano curb stomps New York mobster Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano for making lewd comments to his daughter in The Sopranos episode "The Second Coming" (2007).
The third-person shooter video game Gears of War features a graphic depiction of a curb stomp in which the head explodes.[8]
WWE professional wrestler Seth Rollins previously used a 'curb stomp' as his finishing move. Rollins said that he stopped using the move as "from a PR standpoint ... it was too perceptually violent ... I never hurt anyone with it. It was just something we didn't want kids trying on each other".[9]
References
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