On 29 Oct 2008 06:17:56 GMT, Dennis
wrote:

Hanging them from the yardarm would be even more fun, though.

There is a place right downtown in London called Execution Dock.
Legend is that they would peg down pirates on the river bottom at low
tide. Drowning occured when the tide came in. For the modern
variation, chain them to their boat and shoot a not very big hole in
it.

Casady