Cement shoes
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- For the independent record label, see Cement Shoes Records
Cement shoes is a slang term adopted by the American Mafia crime world for a method of execution that involves weighting down a victim and throwing him or her into the water to drown. It has become adopted in the US as a humorous term representating any exotic threat from criminals.
Cement shoes traditionally involves a victim placing each foot into the two spaces of a cinderblock, which is then filled with wet cement. When the cement hardens, the victim is thrown into a river, lake or the ocean. It is unclear how often such a cumbersome and time-consuming method of execution was actually used, outside of Hollywood movies.
[edit] Popular culture
- In the Star Trek episode "A Piece of the Action", Scotty gets the phrase wrong and says: "You mind your place, mister, or you'll be wearing concrete galoshes." 1
- In the Futurama episode "Bender Gets Made" the Robot mafia member "Clamps" says: "So I finally get this guy a pair of cement shoes which he likes 'cause they're lighter than his lead ones."
- In the video-game Super Smash Bros. Melee, Cement Shoes is a type of bonus awarded after matches.
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