History Main / SandNecktie

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': In #131, Morgan's RivalTurnedEvil Maddox drugs Morgan so he can exact revenge for years of perceived wrongs. The first torture he inflicts on Morgan is burying him up to his neck.

* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Cartman buries himself in snow this way in order to freeze himself to get a UsefulNotes/NintendoWii faster. [[GoneHorriblyRight It works]], [[HumanPopsicle but too well.]]

'''Scooter:''' Don't just stand there, dude! The tide's coming in! ''(laughs; tide covers neck)'' ...Dude?

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Book of the Dead", Bertram Jewel, the first VictimOfTheWeek, is buried up to his neck in the forest, and then has a glass bowl placed over his head so that he suffocates.

* In ''Film/JeremiahJohnson'', this happens to a side character when he gets captured by hostile natives. Since he was bald, they decide that scalping him would be a waste of time.

* Invoked as a prank in [[http://bash.org/?287414 this bash.org entry,]] where two people who tried to play a game of Sand Necktie Chicken one evening, and both quit believing the other had beaten them.

* Used in some sketches from ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'', whenever showing Islamist extremists stoning a woman.

* ''Film/TheChallenge'', an 80s action flick starring Creator/ScottGlenn and Creator/ToshiroMifune, had Glenn's character being buried to his neck for ''five'' days. He still maintains his sense of humor though, as he chomps on a beetle passing by...

'''Scooter:''' Don't just stand there, dude! The tide's coming in ''(laughs; tide covers neck)'' ...Dude?

* In Jerzy Kosinski's ''The Painted Bird'', the main character is buried to his neck by superstitious peasants who wish to "cure" him of a fever. This leads to a flock of crows pecking at his head.

* Invoked as a prank in [[http://bash.org/?287414 this bash.org entry]], where two people who tried to play a game of Sand Necktie Chicken one evening, and both quit believing the other had beaten them.

* In ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'' #131, Morgan's RivalTurnedEvil Maddox drugs Morgan so he can exact revenge for years of perceived wrongs. The first torture he inflicts on Morgan is burying him up to his neck.

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* In ''Anime/GingaNagareboshiGin'', [[spoiler:Sniper]] does this to [[spoiler:Chutora and Kurotora]]. [[spoiler:Luckily, they are rescued by their friends.]]

* ''ComicBook/LargoWinch'', the sadistic Flor de la Cruz buries Largo to his neck in the desert at the mercy of the heat, scorpions and red ants.

* ''Crock''. The tyrannical Commandant Vermin P. Crock does this to members of the Foreign Legion who step out of line.

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* ''Film/TheCherokeeKid'': Cortina is buried up to his neck when Isaiah meets him.
* ''Film/TheChallenge'', an 80s action flick starring Creator/ScottGlenn and Creator/ToshiroMifune, had Glenn's character being buried to his neck for ''five'' days. He still maintains his sense of humor though, as he chomps on a beetle passing by...
-->"Breakfast for champions."

* Happens to the main characters in ''Call Me Bwana'', when they are captured by an african tribe.
* The {{anthology}} movie ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' has a segment all about the Sand Necktie. Leslie Nielsen plays a deranged millionaire who buries his wife and her lover, Ted Danson, in the sand at low tide. Then the tide comes in and they drown. [[spoiler:Then they come back as undead and do the same thing to him]].

* Creator/WernerHerzog has yet to release (and, in all likelihood, [[WordOfGod will never release]]) "Game in the Sand", a 1964 short film. Not much is known about it, other than the plot concerns [[NoodleIncident four children and a rooster in a cardboard box]], and that there is a scene where the chicken is buried in sand up to its neck.

* In ''Literature/MichaelStrogoff'' [[spoiler:Nicolas Pigassof is executed this way by the tartars]]

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* The classic "bury him up to his neck and let the tide take him out" version is done to a Victim of the Week on ''Series/CSIMiami''.

* In two episodes of ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/XenaWarriorPrincess Xena]]'', Gabrielle is buried up to her neck. But in both situations, she was saved by Xena. "Forgiven" (Season 3, Episode 14), along with Tara, and "Legacy" (Season 6, Episode 5).
* In an episode of the TV version of "Dick Barton - Special Agent" Barton has this done to him on a private beach by unrepentant Nazi Muller's men.

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* Used in some sketches from ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'', whenever showing Islamist extremists stoning a woman.
* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': The Hood does this to Brains in the episode "Desperate Intruder". Partly subverted however since he does not do it with the intention of slowly killing Brains, but to torture Brains into revealing information about a treasure he, Tintin, and a professor were looking for.
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* The entirety of the Samuel Beckett play ''Happy Days'' is a woman buried up to her chest [[spoiler:and later her neck. Somehow]].

* During a period when Website/SomethingAwful seemed intent on making Wink Martindale their SitcomArchnemesis, [[https://www.somethingawful.com/news/wink-martindale/ one of their articles]] about him claimed that "Wink Martindale buries cowboys up to their neck in the hard pan dirt of the desert and drives off laughing. He doesn't even care enough to watch them die." [[https://www.somethingawful.com/news/corrections-retractions-omission/ A later article]] retracted this, admitting that "He does care, he just has too much on his schedule to stand around watching cowboys die all day."

--> "Breakfast for champions."

* Charlie Daniels’ “Simple Man” suggests — as part of implementing extrajudicial justice to society’s worst criminals (including child abusers and molesters, and rapists) — he would “take them rascals out in the swamp, put them on their knees and tie ‘em to a stump/And let the bugs and the rattlers and the alligators do the rest.”

* This one was confirmed as an effective DeathTrap by the ''Series/MythBusters''. Both Tory and Grant were buried in a standing position up to their necks to test whether you could dig yourself out (they filled an upright box that could be disassembled if they were truly stuck). In dry sand Tory was able to dig himself out but the process took him over an hour. Grant tested wet sand and gave up after ten minutes because the water would fill any gaps he had made. Another danger besides drowning was the sand's weight compressing on the chest, preventing you from being able to breathe.