It takes 11 lbs of force to strangle a human being.
A bit more weight than a bag of sugar or a gallon-and-a-half of milk.
Or 20 average paperback romance novels.
Or 22 hard drives with 9 million songs or 6 million books or god knows how many ones and zeroes that can be forced to squeak and bleat into the unending silence.
The Gripmaster Pro ™ requires 11 lbs of force per finger, “appropriate only for individuals requiring extreme and extraordinary grasping power.”
The NYPD modifies their service firearms to a 12-pound trigger pull.
In 2012, NYPD police officers wounded 9 bystanders outside the Empire State Building; there were no superheroes in sight.
Your choice: the Beretta Model 455 SXS Express Rifle with walnut hand-checkered grip and fore-end, side-lock action, case-hardened finish and double triggers or the Ithaca Model 37 Deerslayer II pump shotgun.
Take home that 11-lb turkey…143 minutes in the oven and 11 greasy-forks picking at the carcass.
An old rule of thumb: when a baby reaches 11 lbs they’ll start to sleep more soundly at night.
Khloé Kardashian reveals how she lost 11 lbs in a month!
I’ve lost at least 11 lbs on at least 11 diets including low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie and the cabbage soup plan.
But the 11lb bullfrog is just a myth, the Internet tells me (but the Internet tells me a lot of things).
A newly-hatched Sauropod, a dinosaur known for its immense size, weighed around 11 pounds, about as much as a housecat.
Maybe you’re more comfortable thinking of this as 5 kilograms or 3/4 of a stone.
I can curl an 11-lb dumbbell 192 times in a row…and counting.
Reported time of application to unconsciousness due to strangulation range from 7 seconds to a minute.
He nailed a rope to a beam on his patio.
She tried to drive away.
The most important things weigh nothing at all.