I was twice-forewarned as I crashed down through a thicket behind the hamlet's church: a beetle impaled on a long thorn; nearby, a bee, still buzzing frantically, had suffered the same fate.
The images, thought to originate in the United States, show the man leaping off a bridge to escape officers, and being impaled on railings and decapitated.
A relentless grid of windows has been punched through the old stone wall, as if the facade has been impaled on some kind of architectural iron maiden.
"TED had impaled the party on an extremely painful hook from which it would be my unenviable task to set it free".
"In high winds they can be dangerous, and cause damage to homes and property," Mr Romney urges.Sensible advice, no doubt, but something in me likes the idea of a multi-billion dollar election juggernaut being halted by visions of a voter impaled then pinned to a wind-lashed lawn by a flying Romney-for-president yard sign.(Photo credit: AFP).
These are gangsters settling scores".Much has been made of how the current crisis has been the PT's come-uppance, a party impaled on the banner of ethics it brandished for 25 years.
Some civilians had been mutilated with broken beer bottles, some impaled on bamboo.
One episode showed a goat impaled on a spear and struggling to survive.
After killing him, Lancastrian forces had impaled York's head on a lance and adorned it with a paper crown.
Mr Spitzer is only the latest in an endless line of self-righteous crusaders impaled on their own swords.He certainly had no choice but to resign (as he did on March 12th) if, as it seems, he broke the law.
Twisting and turning to get off the hook on which years of over-manning, weak management, poor service and political interference have impaled it, Alitalia now plans to raise up to $485m of new debt, pledging part of its elderly fleet in guarantee.
