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Later, as the contenders ascend the toy house staircase with strains of Johann Strauss II’s “The Blue Danube” playing in the background, they pass an artfully arranged mobile of corpses strung up by their wrists.

Exhibit A: Muammar Qaddafi, onetime president of Libya, gave up his nuclear program and was soon strung up by internal opponents exploiting the chaos unleashed by a U.S. bombing campaign.

He put on some music and turned on some Christmas lights that had been strung up in the van.

Nearly 24 hours after the attack took place, the corner of Canal and Bourbon streets remained an active crime zone, with dozens of police cars blocking the road and police tape still strung up.

The ghostly story tells the tale of a sailor murdered by three criminals whose bodies were strung up on a hanging gallows as a warning to passing travellers.