Okay. I hate to admit it, but I’m a fan of the show Myth Busters on the Discovery Channel. I was watching Episode 25 “Brown Note” of the show the other night and one section was about the so-called “Chinese Water Torture”. You know the one….they tie you down and drip water on your head until you go crazy and confess everything.

Jamie and Adam decide to give this one to their “Mythterns”, their younger, less experienced counterparts. This group actual builds a device to do the torture and then tests it on Kari, one of the mythterns. They shackled her to the device and then brought in a paramedic to monitor her. I have to say that I was a bit surprised by the result. I thought it would just be annoying to her, but nothing really painful. Instead, they had her reduced to tears and begging to be let out after a little over an hour of the “torture”. Who’d have thought?

Incidentally, if you haven’t watched Myth Busters, you are really missing out! Do yourself a favor and watch it sometime.

–Pete