NO. 26 - VARIOUS METHODS OF SECURING A PRISONER (cont.)
B -"The Grape Vine"
Select a tree, post, or lamp-post of about seven inches in diameter.
1. Make your prisoner climb on the tree as in Fig. 100.
2. Place his right leg around the front of the tree, with his foot to the left. Place his left leg
over his right ankle, as in Fig. 101, and take his left foot back behind the tree.
3. Force him well down the pole until the weight of his body locks his left foot around the
tree, as in Fig. 102.
Note. - Even though you have left your prisoner's hands free, it will, if he has been forced well
down the tree, be almost impossible for him to escape. Normally, the average man placed in
this position would get cramp in one or both legs within ten to fifteen minutes, when it is not at
all unlikely that he would throw himself backwards. This would kill him.
Caution. - To release your prisoner: Two persons are necessary, one on either side. Take
hold of his legs and lift him up the tree; then unlock his legs.