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Question: When hes hanging upside down...


...What is that cocoon looking thing tied to his face?

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Its an ant hill. Look closely, they look like flies but they are ants. Dieter has lumps on his face from the bites.

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Thanks for the reply jamasian :)

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You're right. A typical punishment in the prison camp was to beat the prisoner, drag him behind a water buffalo through the village, then tie him upside down in a tree, put honey or another sticky substance on his face, and finally break an ant nest over his head. It's pretty nasty....

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Have the Mummy come and rip their ("their" the Vietnamses people who are torturing the Americans) eyeballs out of their skull. That will teach them.

Ormake 'em suffer the Hom Dai; first your tongue is cut out, and then your mouth is sewn shut, then you are covered in boiling-hot mummification oils, which is followed by lifetime of eternal torture and misery, and when death finally has mercy on you, what awaits you is even more and worse torture in the Underworld.

Mua ha ha ha ha! Pure evil!

Death will come on swift wings...to whomsoever opens this chest!
-Dr. Allen Chamberlain

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I thought it was a bee hive :p

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I thought it was a bee hive as well

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I still think so. It was on a tree branch.

Darlin', don't ever take a Southern woman for granted!

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In the documentary about Denegler, I think he mentions that it was ants. I don't think the director covered this well.

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Definitely ants. Is a type of ant in SE Asia that builds nests in trees. They bite like fire ants. The larvae is eaten as a snack.

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