You're probably familiar with a lot of different punishments, from detention to jail time.

You might have even heard about barbaric historical sentences, such as hangings, burnings, and stonings.

But as dreadful as they were, humans throughout history have come up with even more twisted

and terrible ways to punish alleged wrong toers. From

burning bulls to bug buffets, these are some of the worst punishments in human history.

You're listening. You're listening. You're be amazed. Have you ever been in a cramped spot with someone you don't like?

Maybe shared an elevator with that one annoying co-worker?

Well, it could always be worse.

That annoying coworker could also be an angry, venomous snake.

The ancient Roman poinacouillet, or punishment of the sack, involved placing the victim

into a large canvas sack.

At this point, a dog, cat, monkey, rooster, and snake would then also be tossed into the sack,

before the sack itself was thrown into a river.

The idea behind Poena Coelier was that as the sack slowly filled with water, the frightened

and aggressive animals inside would tear each other and the unfortunate victim stuck in the

middle apart. The exact animals thrown into the sack varied from punishment to punishment.

After all, why waste a perfectly good monkey when you could just use an extra rooster?

This nasty punishment was most often meted out to those accused of parasite, which is the

crime of slaying one of your parents.

I'm not exactly sure why slaying your parents would net you a timeout in the danger sack.

Doesn't seem like an especially ironic or fitting punishment.

Maybe it's funnier if you speak Latin.

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