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order's enemy, chaos with a press kit, the moment the plan stops working.
means Mayhem is violent disorder or chaos — a scene of destruction, confusion, and things spinning wildly out of control.
from From the Anglo-French 'maihem' and Old French 'mahaignier,' meaning to maim, wound, or cripple — the same family that gives us 'maim' itself. In early English law, 'mayhem' was a precise legal term: the crime of injuring someone so badly they couldn't defend themselves in a fight. Over centuries the word slipped its narrow legal collar and broadened into the general havoc and uproar we mean today — but at its root, mayhem is still about something being broken.
- old law
- Once meant maiming someone, a real medieval crime
- french roots
- From mahaignier, to wound or cripple
- insurance term
- Legally distinct from a riot in policies
- comic name
- Marvel's Mayhem is a teen villain-turned-hero
altamont speedway free concert — 1969 rolling stones concert in california where hell's angels killed 4 people, ending the peace era
tulsa race massacre — 1921 greenwood district oklahoma: white mobs killed 300+ black residents and burned 35 blocks
beijing tiananmen square 1989 — june 4 crackdown: tanks killed hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in central beijing