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Chamber Pot Warfare was a popular guerrilla technique used in battle, in which a guerrilla (occasionally a gorilla) empties a chamber pot on his or her enemy, usually from a balcony [1]. It was especially effectively employed by women in the Union-occupied Confederate States during the American Civil War. The first known instance of Chamber Pot Warfare was in New Orleans in May of 1862, when women emptied chamber pots on the head of Admiral David Farragut [2] [3]. It also was employed by some Dubliners on leaders of the Irish Republican Army, following the Easter Rising [4].
The practice is still extremely popular in Ireland and Scotland, where it is referred to as slopping out [5] [6]. This technique was also known as the leaky outhouse in and around Mobile, Alabama. This was the inspiration for a skiffle band in the 1990s in New York City, albeit with extreme metal umlauts: Łıkï Øútħåùş.
It has since been outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. However, similar techniques persist, most notably the technique of autothysis, a which is popular among termites [7].
References
[edit]- ^ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480003,00.html
- ^ http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/civil_war/summary.htm
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/10/29/opinion/20101029-civil-war.html?scp=1&sq=civil%20war%20timeline&st=cse
- ^ The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations, edited by Ruán O’Donnell, Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008, ISBN 978 0 7165 2965, pg. 196-97
- ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article844836.ece
- ^ http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/new-prison-will-end-practice-of-slopping-out-470588.html
- ^ http://www.heptune.com/farts.html