Torture Device

Got bored this morning and started poking around on Wikipedia. Stumbled across the entry for "treadmill". According to that fine institute of knowledge, treadmills were first created as sources of power for mills, grinders, and other industrial needs. Then (and this is where it gets relevant), treadmills were used as instruments of punishment. That's right, prisoners used to be forced to walk on treadmills..... As this fat man runs on a treadmill this morning, it seems that nothing has changed - except I don't have a bushel of crushed grain when I finish my time on this thing....