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When gangsters are punishing someone for crossing them, they are often shown having the victim tied up to a chair with his feet in a barrel, into which is poured quick-drying concrete. Once the concrete is dry, the victim is then dropped into a body of water, simultaneously killing the target and disposing of the body in a supposedly untraceable manner.
Alternately, the victim is left tied up at the bottom of a construction site while the basement is being poured.
Depending on the exact methods used, overlap with some form of [[Death Trap]] can occur.
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* [[Spider-Man]] villain [[An Ice Person|Iceberg]] tries this on a henchman that he caught stealing from him by encasing his feet in ice with his freeze ray.
* One adventure of [[The Phantom (comic strip)|The Phantom]] revolves around the discovery of a whole "graveyard" of cement shoe victims.
* A three-part Batman story arc from the nineties ends with the Ventriloquist and Scarface inflicting this on a traitorous lieutenant, to go along with the whole [[The Bad Guy Wins]] (sorta) ending.
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* [[Playing with a Trope|Played With]] in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/Hogfather|Hogfather]]''. A character has the nickname Chicken Wire because he figured out you can use chicken wire to prevent people who've had this treatment and have been dumped in the ''very'' polluted river Ankh from decomposing and having the pieces float up. The other problem is breaking through the crust on the river...
* E. L. Doctorow's ''Billy Bathgate'' opens with Dutch Schultz executing someone this way.
* In [[Gone (novel)]], the villains trap several kids' hands in cement, but they don't intend for it to kill them. It's to keep them prisoner and prevent them from using their powers, which focus through their hands. Might be a villainous example of [[Cruel Mercy]], or maybe just plain sadism/sociopathy.
* In the ''Space Precinct'' novel ''The Deity Father'', a rival mobster to the [[Big Bad]] is found ''floating in space'' in [[Cement Shoes]]. It's pointed out that there's no reason for the concrete, except tradition.
* ''Without Remorse'': In the [[Tom Clancy]] novel, the body of small-time drug dealer Angelo Vorano was weighed down with cinder blocks and dumped into Chesapeake Bay, where it was consumed by crabs. By the time the police found it (while searching the area for a totally different reason), it was just a skeleton.
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** And then, when gangsters in ''[[The Far Side]]'' are feeling ''especially'' vicious, they'll paint a victim's face with mime makeup and trap him in a soundproof glass box on the street, where he slowly and painfully dehydrates to death. The cartoon shows one of these victims desperately screaming to be let out -- and a tourist, thinking he's just witnessing a harmless bit of street theatre, simply [[Crowning Moment of Funny|snaps a picture with his camera]].
** There is another cartoon with a man trapped inside a trash can and dropped off in a forest to "sleep with the bears"
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' once had some post-war gangsters try a variant; it entailed tying a victim between two steel i-beams and drop him into the river so weighted. Fortunately, Tracy and Sam Catchem stop this murder in time.
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