RUNNING PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN ON A RAIL
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did people strap the bad guys in a town onto a rail and run them out of town???? carrying them on the rail and running with it???
2006-09-28 07:49:57 · 16 answers · asked by Cap'n Donna 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
They actually carried the rail with the men straddling it (the bumpier the ride the better…ouch.) Usually it followed a tar and feather party.
Ahhh…the good old days.
2006-09-28 07:53:34 · answer #1 · answered by Maddog Salamander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the middle ages they used to tie your hands behind your back and make you walk out of the village while the rest of the villagers threw stones at you. Banishing you from ever returning.
I'm not sure how you were supposed to get untied or survive after a good stoning, but that's what they did. Maybe that was a begginning to running you out on a rail.
Train rails are really heavy. I wouldn't want to have to lift a rail with a person tied to it.
2006-09-28 07:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by Cerebrus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They Tared and Feathered People. And then Carried them Out on a Rail, so they Did not have to touch them.
2006-09-28 07:56:12 · answer #3 · answered by Legion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was done in an episode of "Carnivale", the second season. This hbo-series was set in the Great Depression, and one of the characters (the Carnival foreman, the ball-player) was tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail.
He would have died, but he was saved by the "healer" character.
2006-09-28 07:54:12 · answer #4 · answered by papyrusbtl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe had something to do with the railroad being the fastest way out of a town at some point in history.
2006-09-28 07:52:33 · answer #5 · answered by wwbrad90 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they would balance them on a rail after tarring and feathering them. Uncomfortable all around---the exact opposite of rolling out the red carpet, you could say.
2006-09-28 07:56:07 · answer #6 · answered by Harris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
old western tradition to run bad people out of town on a train
2006-09-28 18:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by meandragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It happened to my uncle when he was beating up my Aunt. Her brothers beat him up ran him out to the rail head and let him know he was to get the next box-car or be dead the next time they saw him.. (circa 1950)
2006-09-28 08:00:44 · answer #8 · answered by Drewpie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think rail refers to train....I have enough people to fill few passenger cars!
2006-09-28 07:52:50 · answer #9 · answered by kellettgal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it had something to do with putting the "bad guys" on a train.
2006-09-28 07:52:03 · answer #10 · answered by lisa s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋