I recently described the killing of a duck for dinner. The duck was killed by swinging it by the neck until it snapped.
My great grandmother used to kill chickens this way. One swing around her head and the chicken was killed. [This was 70-120 years ago, btw. So don't sic PETA on me, please.]
Having seen this her whole adolescence, her daughter, my grandmother, tried this method. She grabbeed a chicken by the neck and began swinging it 'round and 'round her head. The chicken squwaked and squwaked. Finally, my great gm came to the chicken's rescue and put it out of it's misery. Dinner, I was told, was great that day.
This was a story causing great jocularity, at my grandma's expense, for years. Grandma has passed on, now, and I still find the image funny.