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* 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
* ''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.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Firestarter]]'' the head of the fictional secret U.S. government intelligence agency "The Shop" idly reminisces about the godfather of a victim of one of the agency's experiments, who had been determined to find out the truth of what had happened to his godson. Rather than getting to the bottom of what happened, the only place he wound up getting to was "the bottom of the Baltimore Trench, where he presumably still was, with two cement blocks tied around whatever remained of his legs."
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Spoofed in a certain ''[[The Far Side]]'' cartoon, wherein fish gangsters encase a victim's fins in styrofoam, sending him on a deadly trip to the surface to " sleep with the humans". Another had the sandwich mafia sending their victim to ''sleep with the fourth graders.''
** 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
** 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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* ''[[Homestar Runner]]''. In the updated cartoon of "Where My Hat Is At?", Homestar looks for his hat at the bottom of the pool, and all he finds is Strong Sad with a concrete weight around his neck.
* ''[[Making Fiends]]'' has Vendetta tricking [[Too Dumb to Live|Charlotte]] into wearing concrete shoes and taking a dive off the pier. Charlotte's response when she reaches the bottom of the sea? [http://www.makingfiends.com/fiend19.htm Sing a a song] about the joys of concrete shoes, of course!
{{quote|'''Charlotte:''' [[Ear Worm|So much to see, so much to do[[
* In ''[[Megatokyo]]'', Chief Sonoda threatens his daughter's would-be boyfriend by implication.
{{quote|''''Sonda:'' Do you have any idea how much concrete I buy every month?}}
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