Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home"
saying something like:

I could kill you with a 1" knife without touching the organs or an artery
and it would be instant.
But that would be illegal.
*May* be illegal!

You bad man.
May be a bad man.

Oh, I see. So it's all right for you to kill someone, but I can't speed?
Riiiiigght.

Perhaps he's "Licenced to kill"?

Incidentally I don't think there is such a thing as an instant death.
Except perhaps in the case of a very large explosion.

Andy