Countdown to judgment - for Peter Hendrickson

[Doktor Avalanche]

Hendrickson had been found guilty of filing false tax returns and double parking. When sentencing him, the judge offered the following comfort: "The condemned will have nothing to endure but the apprehension of death, which apprehension will be more painful to you than the blow that robs you of life." Hendrickson wasn't convinced and had to be dragged to the scaffold in a fainting fit. The town square was packed with eager spectators, but after the executioner, "Lefty" Johnson, released the blade the crowd gave a groan of disapproval. It had all been too quick. They began chanting, "Give me back my wooden gallows."

[grixit]

Hendrickson had been found guilty of filing false tax returns and double parking. When sentencing him, the judge offered the following comfort: "The condemned will have nothing to endure but the apprehension of death, which apprehension will be more painful to you than the blow that robs you of life." Hendrickson wasn't convinced and had to be dragged to the scaffold in a fainting fit. The town square was packed with eager spectators, but after the executioner, "Lefty" Johnson, released the blade the crowd gave a groan of disapproval. It had all been too quick. They began chanting, "Give me back my wooden gallows."

The condemned's head was quickly shorn, and the hair turned over to an unidentified woman wearing a melon for a helmet. She cackled to herself as she deftly knitted the hair into a crew neck sweater.