History Main / CementShoes

* In ''Literature/BabylonBerlin'' by Creator/VolkerKutscher, Gereon Rath commits an AccidentalMurder next to a construction site so he drags the body inside, digs a hole in the still wet concrete foundation and buries it. Unfortunately the foreman notices the previously smooth surface has been disturbed and orders the workers to dig up the concrete and lay the foundation again, causing the body to be found.

* ''Series/{{Underbelly}}'': Brian Alexander, a criminal lawyer who loses everything, is portrayed to have gone to the corrupt police for help, knowing they would probably just kill him so he doesn't talk. Which they do by tying him to a stove then throwing it off their rented boat, ignoring his pleas for a quick death on the account they didn't want to use a police weapon. The same incident is also portrayed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGhisQsf3Q the 1995 Australian TV mini-series]] ''Series/BlueMurder''.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "With Baited Breath", the killer attempts to dispose of his final intended victim by tying her to a large rock, rowing her into the middle of the lake, and dumping her out of the boat, but is thwarted by the arrival of Barnaby and Winter.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheMafia Chicago Outfit mobster]] John Roselli's body was found in a oil drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami in 1976 thanks to the gases oozing out of his corpse that gave the drum buoyancy and floated it back up the surface. It is speculated he was killed for either [[StealingFromTheTill hoarding]] the mob's gambling monies in Las Vegas for himself or that he testified in front of Congress on the CIA's attempts to overthrow UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.

* ''Series/{{Underbelly}}'': Brian Alexander, a criminal lawyer who loses everything, is portrayed to have gone to the corrupt police for help, knowing they would probably just kill him so he doesn't talk. Which they do by tying him to a stove then throwing it off their rented boat, ignoring his pleas for a quick death on the account they didn't want to use a police weapon. The same incident is also portrayed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGhisQsf3Q the 1995 Australian TV mini-series]] ''Blue Murder''.

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* A three-part ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story arc from the nineties ends with the Ventriloquist and Scarface inflicting this on a traitorous lieutenant, to go along with the whole TheBadGuyWins (sorta) ending.

* In ''ComicBook/TheCartoonHistoryOfTheUniverse'', the prelude to the first volume on Rome has the Professor discussing their famous concrete and cutthroat politics... and promptly gets his foot caught in a bucket of concrete, as Cicero (in his only appearance) teleports in and calls for a swim.

* One ''{{ComicBook/Hellblazer}}'' comic has John dispose of a gangster this way, by getting the victims of such murders to rise out of the water and drag the mobster down with them.

* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' [[RetCon was originally]] the ghost of murdered police detective Jim Corrigan, who was tied up in a large, cement-filled barrel that was dropped into the Gotham River.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain [[AnIcePerson Iceberg]] tries this on a henchman that he caught stealing from him by encasing his feet in ice with his freeze ray.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' stories provide some examples:

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Hypnota tried to kill Wonder Woman by having her feet and wrists chained to heavy weights and then dropping her in a pit of water. It was not effective.

See also ConstructiveBodyDisposal, for when the victim is left (alive or dead) at the bottom of a construction site while the basement is being poured.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE64ReadMyLips "Read My Lips"]], the dummy of a stereotypical American gangster, Scarface, discuss with the Ventriloquist about putting Batman in ''concrete boots". Later we discover that Scarface was invoking this InUniverse [[ClicheStorm stereotypical gangster trope]] because he has [[spoiler:discovered the IncrediblyObviousBug Batman has planted in the Ventriloquist's suit and plans to have Batman LuredIntoATrap]].

* In the film adaptation of Creator/AlistairMacLean's ''Film/WhenEightBellsToll'', Creator/AnthonyHopkins character, playing a British secret agent, shocks his ArmchairMilitary boss by necksnapping a member of a BoardingParty, wrapping his legs in chain and throwing the corpse overboard. Later they're pulling up the anchor on their boat and find a missing fellow agent has been tied to it.

* A sadistic variant is mentioned in ''Literature/TheAlchemist1985'' by Ken Goddard -- the victim is thrown over the side in scuba gear, and so has [[AndIMustScream several hours at the bottom to contemplate his sins before running out of air]].

* The main premise of the ''Webcomic/Lackadaisy'' fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50067244 Ivy and Freckle in Watered Daisies]] revolves around this trope, with Ivy and Freckle being cast into the Mississippi with concrete boots and left to drown.

* The main premise of the "Webcomic/Lackadaisy" fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50067244 Ivy and Freckle in Watered Daisies]] revolves around this trope, with Ivy and Freckle being cast into the Mississippi with concrete boots and left to drown.

* The main premise of the "Webcomics/Lackadaisy" fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50067244 Ivy and Freckle in Watered Daisies]] revolves around this trope, with Ivy and Freckle being cast into the Mississippi with concrete boots and left to drown.

* The main premise of the "Webcomic/Lackadaisy" fic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50067244 Ivy and Freckle in Watered Daisies]] revolves around this trope, with Ivy and Freckle being cast into the Mississippi with concrete boots and left to drown.

* The main premise of [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/50067244 Ivy and Freckle in Watered Daisies]] revolves around this trope, with Ivy and Freckle being cast into the Mississippi with concrete boots and left to drown.

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* In ''VideoGame/Gex'' 3: Deep Cover Gecko, the prohibiton-themed level Gangster TV has enemies who can be found underwater. Despite getting dragged down with cement shoes, they can attack you if you get close.

* In [[VideoGame/Gex Gex]] Deep Cover Gecko, the prohibiton-themed level Gangster TV has enemies who can be found underwater. Despite getting dragged down with cement shoes, they can attack you if you get close.

* In [[''VideoGame/Gex'' Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko]], the prohibiton-themed level Gangster TV has enemies who can be found underwater. Despite getting dragged down with cement shoes, they can attack you if you get close.

* In [[VideoGame/Gex Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko]], the prohibiton-themed level Gangster TV has enemies who can be found underwater. Despite getting dragged down with cement shoes, they can attack you if you get close.

* An old skit from ''Series/TheElectricCompany'' involves two StupidCrooks holding a tied up and gagged hostage and threatening to apply this trope unless he spills "what we want to know". Unfortunately - for them - they get into a heated argument about whether the material is actually cement or concrete until the captive manages to get loose and find a cop. (And to add insult to injury, after said cop hauls them away - still arguing over it - the would-be victim says to the viewer that [[ShaggyDogStory he had no idea what they wanted him to tell]] them in the first place.)

* Referenced in "A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor" by Creator/OgdenNash, in which the unnamed protagonist visits an IronicHell in which murderers are forced to dance forever while bound to the corpses of their vicims.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheMafia Chicago Outfit mobster]] John Roselli's body was found in a oil drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami in 1976 thanks to the gases oozing out of his corpse that gave the drum buoyancy and floated it back up the surface. Many speculate Roselli was killed for [[StealingFromTheTill keeping]] the Mob's gambling monies in Las Vegas for himself, but others think it was because he testified in front of Congress on the CIA's attempts to overthrow UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.

** In ''Vito la déveine'' (''Vito Misfortune'') [[TheDon Vito Cortizone]] [[BornUnlucky crashes his seaplane]] along with its freight off the coast of a Polynesian atoll. [[{{Robinsonade}} After he spent weeks on a deserted island]], [[ContrivedCoincidence along come Spirou and Fantasio with their boat near this island.]] Vito forces Fantasio to bring back to the surface the crates from the freight for a few days. Once he have them all, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Vito try to get rid of the two heroes.]] He makes them go into their inflatable boat, with rope and two crates. Then he demand, under the threat of a weapon [[note]] A [[BrandishmentBluff fake]] one, but Spirou and Fantasio don't know[[/note]], that Fantasio tie up Spirou 's hands. Then Vito planned to tie Fantasio's hands as well, attch each of them to a crate, and toss them into the sea. However, Fantasio is still in the middle of the task of tying up Spirou's hands when [[JustInTime a Chinese mafia's boat arrives]], and they are after Vito. [[OhCrap The latter panics]], and finally cut Spirou's bonds, while begging the two heroes [[EnemyMine to help him against the Triad instead.]]