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8 Cruel Yet Kind of Hilarious Public Humiliation Contraptions

Public humiliation has been used as a deterrent against crime for much of human history, with some pretty strange devices associated with it. The colonial era Brits had a special obsession with humiliation, especially when it came to controlling women, and those tendencies made their way into the early United States. And who knew dressing someone up in a barrel was so popular?


Here are eight bizarre public humiliation contraptions from history, and their sadistic uses. 

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