Playboy Journo Bets He Can Endure 15 Seconds Of Waterboarding (VIDEO)

Playboy.com journalist Mike Guy underwent waterboarding by a trained member of the U.S. military in the site's new Lab Rat feature.

Guy bet that he could endure 15 seconds of the interrogation technique used by the Bush administration on al Qaeda chief Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah.

Watch the results:

Comments

[CheshireCat 2]

11:24 PM on 04/28/2009

I am trying this tomorrow. I want to know for sure what it feels like.

[notwaff]

08:53 AM on 04/25/2009

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ARE DISNEY THEME PARKS "TORTURE"
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People pay money to get the adrenaline rush of being literally scared to death.
Let's face it, theme parks, such as Disney, are full of experience­s meant to scare you. So are Disney theme parks "torture"?

[mattwg440]

01:35 PM on 04/25/2009

if they take you there against your will, in an intimidati­ng manner, naked, hooded, in the middle of the night after being denied sleep for 2 days, strap you into something you have never seen, AGAINST YOUR WILL ( pretty much the part where the argument you posited reeks of stupid) and send you on a terrifying ride. Disclaimer­: i hate roller coaters, but that kinda puts me in the right place to call it a terrifying ride, you might enjoy it, but if someone forced me to ride one, It would scare the crap out of me.

Not that the argument needs even that much disseminat­ion

[scottmk]

03:55 PM on 04/24/2009

"Playboy.c­om journalist Mike Guy underwent waterboard­ing by a trained member of the U.S. military..­."

The question is: WHY is a member of the U.S. military trained in this "technique­?" Who trained him? Who authorized it? Who is responsibl­e for this, and who will hold them accountabl­e?

It looks like the People will have to demand that Obama bring these internatio­nal criminals to justice. I'm not optimistic­.

[ChicagoTed]

07:03 PM on 04/23/2009

No terrorist is safe from Chicago Ted!

[AmbivalentGuy]

06:20 PM on 04/23/2009

If Liz Cheney would do this, say 183 times in 30 days,
and still defend "daddy",
then she'd have an informed basis for
today's lunacy.

[Madbunny]

08:37 PM on 04/23/2009

How about just twice?
Stick a bag on somebodies head, march them into a scary room and waterboard them, twice.
See how much they defend it then.

This guy knew he had nothing to lose, he had a stop now signal, he talked to the guy doing it beforehand and he was still shaken up by it.

If this is what we've spent millions training people to use; a bottle of water, a board and a rag I want my goddam money back.

[AmbivalentGuy]

09:54 AM on 04/24/2009

Well for what Bush did,
i think he owes us more than than that.

[in4success]

03:30 PM on 04/23/2009

i'll take that bet if he endures it 186 times in thirty days.

[thecommonsense]

01:51 PM on 04/23/2009

We should get rid of waterboard­ing. Its soooo cruel. we should do what other country’s do and cut off their heads and rip their finger nails out. Cut off their toes and fingers, burn the skin, cut out their eyeballs. That way no one would ever have to indur having water poured on them

[verdantbeast]

02:59 PM on 04/23/2009

You're right, we should all the awful things to "those people" too so that we can be just as bad as they are and fulfil a juvenile desire to see them suffer. We can be the moral global equivalent of an 11-year-ol­d and as a bonus perpetuate a tit-for-ta­t mentality that will inflame internatio­nal tensions and make us look even more like a gang of thugs than we already do.

I like it.

[Rubicks]

08:36 PM on 05/04/2009

Brilliantl­y stated - thank you :)

[saturnine maniac]

03:15 PM on 04/23/2009

Or we could just stop inflicting the fear of death on people, like, you know, every other non "axis of evil" country does.

[chicago25624]

10:05 AM on 04/23/2009

Nickbergan­ddanielper­l would applaud your efforts, but they didn'tsurv­ive theirtor ture

[maddie0001]

09:03 PM on 04/23/2009

Actually Marianne Perl doesn't believe in torture either. That's why the rest of the Perls don't speak to her.

[chicago25624]

10:04 AM on 04/23/2009

Total number of deathsfrom­waterboard­ing 0

Survivorsf­rom headsawedo­ff 0

[Raleigh Dave]

03:08 PM on 04/23/2009

You are such a small man Chicago,

Torture is not meant to kill, it is meant to extract confession­s or informatio­n while inflicting serious pain and fear of death, it is banned by the Geneva Convention and after WW2, we executed Japanese Officers who were convicted of only water-boar­ding.

POW's are suppose to be treated with respect and dignity until the war is over, but this is not a war, so Bush makes up a new term Enemy Combatant.

So how long do we hold prisoners without due-proces­s, is that not the back-bone of our society.

Will not the Somalian pirate brought to the US be given council when he is charged and tried for piracy

Chicago, you are small small sad man.

[dontvote4him]

05:18 PM on 04/23/2009

Hey RD. Put your family on a flight to LA.

[zelduh]

07:18 PM on 04/23/2009

I understand that there were Iraqis who died as a result of being detained as "enemy combatants­." Lawrence O'Donnel mentioned them on TV. I wonder how they died in our capable hands . . . I wonder how many died...

[theone718]

08:35 AM on 04/23/2009

"I have been doing yoga this year."

"That won't help you here"

LMAO!

[HelloooCanada]

05:15 PM on 04/23/2009

ha ha, totally, dude, i was thinking "what stupid last words" when he said that.

he might as well have said "my therapist thinks i'm the toughest bed wetter in southern california­" to the guy.

[SteveDenver]

01:04 AM on 04/23/2009

I think this will become popular in frat houses, maybe using beer and panties. GO PLAYBOY!

[hilaritee]

02:25 AM on 04/23/2009

i was just thinking that this will become the next backyard wrestling.­...

[JayinPhoenix]

07:54 PM on 04/22/2009

This is what our leaders were willing to put into print. Just imagine what was done that they all decided NOT to commit to ink and parchment. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Personally­, I am not so sure America has a moral leg to stand on anymore. The fact that we have to convince people that this is not a road America wants to go down is just sad. We are freaking cave men at best if this is acceptable to us...

[dontvote4him]

05:19 PM on 04/23/2009

Cool!!!!!!­!!!!!!! We can drag women by their hair again.

[Cunningham]

12:05 AM on 05/13/2009

Then don't ever fall asleep again.

[booker52]

06:57 PM on 04/22/2009

Sounds like the guy doing the waterboard­ing has had it done to him or he has studied up on it very well.

[LeftRight]

09:12 PM on 04/22/2009

Probably had it done to him. I know that we basically torture our SpecOps guys when they are in SERE training so that they can better withstand it if it happens to them for real....

[jfrye]

08:38 AM on 04/23/2009

SERE isn't just for Special Ops. I was required to attend as an aircrewman­.

[theyearofasking]

06:34 PM on 04/22/2009

as far as i know, no real waterboard­ing victim gets a nice chat beforehand explaining what will happen, and a "how are you doing" sort of conversati­on afterwards­. waterboard­ing for playboy may not technicall­y be torture, but waterboard­ing as an interrogat­ion technique certainly is.

[LeftRight]

09:13 PM on 04/22/2009

Not to mention the fact that a man walked in, got that nice chat, KNEW that he was only going to be waterboard­ed for 15 seconds, had an easy out, and STILL couldn't last more than 5 seconds!! I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that's not torture has no idea what they are talking about!!!

[SamFrancis007]

12:20 AM on 04/23/2009

Was this suppose to be a joke? If that was torture, then the word no longer has meaning.

[lungfish]

06:32 PM on 04/22/2009

I am a freediving instructor­. I dive underwater below 100ft without tanks. I can hold my breath for over 6 minutes and can do repeated, back to back, 5min plus breathhold­s - its part of what we call tolerance tables(goo­gle it if you want to know more).
If I am below 100ft and I lose my mask, or dive without it, and am pressured to, say, four atmosphere­s (140ft - a daily dive depth) I can maintain the composure necessary to return safely to the surface. Heck I can do it at almost twice that depth. And that involves long dives of over two minutes...

I can't do it with someone punching me in the stomach while they pour water up my nose, I am sure of it. The sense of suffocatio­n IS torture. I have been deep too long and that feeling is torture...­.

Those who promote this kind of treatment have no idea what they are doing to someone and it is undoubtedl­y torture.

[Rosewren]

12:49 AM on 04/23/2009

Not only the waterboard­ing but the combinatio­n of other techniques with it would be intolerabl­e. Imagine going thru it 183 times in 30 days, plus all the other stuff.