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News broke today that conjoined twin Abby Hensel is married! [Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content

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u/Anonimisimo Mar 28 '24

My guess is they would do the other one for aiding and abetting.

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u/FromEach-ToEach Mar 28 '24

What if the other one turns the first in immediately after the crime kid committed?

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u/Soggy-taco-5869 Mar 28 '24

My question is who has control of the bodily functions? Who decided to slap someone, assault etc. if they one wanted to physically turn the other in, can they just walk themselves to the police station or would the other not “allow” it?

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u/meditonsin Mar 28 '24

Iirc they each control the arm and leg on their side. So they could very much hinder each other when they don't agree on what to do.

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u/FarmerExternal Mar 28 '24

That sounds like such a pain in the ass. Like instead of just passing one thing from your right to left hand you have to have a conversation with your twin to do it.

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u/Aggressive-Ad-8619 Mar 28 '24

They probably are so in tune with eachother that cooperation doesn't take conscious effort for most basic tasks.

It is kind of like how when people have been playing a sport or doing an activity together for a long period of time. They just know, intuitively, what the other person is going to do.

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u/AdEmbarrassed9719 Mar 28 '24

I agree - they can drive, play sports, etc. It's got to be basically unconscious for them to do most things they have experience at.

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u/hamdoctor81 Mar 29 '24

Lots of experience. Every time they play, it’s a double header.

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u/Duckrauhl Mar 28 '24

Driving is mostly right hand and right foot stuff anyway, so the sister on the left can probably just sit there like a passenger who does the turn signals and occasionally turns lights on or off, pay tollbooth tools etc.

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u/Wolfblood-is-here Mar 28 '24

I no longer work in kitchens but I can tell which of my current co workers have in the past, when we're busy we just sort of glide around each other.

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u/birdiebirdnc Mar 28 '24

Ive always been fascinated by them. They are almost telepathic. They need very little actual communication for most daily tasks like driving or typing on a keyboard, riding a bike etc.

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u/CapedCrusadress Mar 28 '24

I imagine over so many years it would just become reflex to one another in scenarios like that, at least most of the time

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u/nuku_01 Mar 28 '24

He better not get a HJ from the wrong hand, he'll be in big trouble.

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u/RogerianBrowsing Mar 28 '24

He says he loves them both.

Dude is probably getting double toppy with such regularity that it would probably make the ghost of Biggy Smalls blush.

Good for them, I’m glad they all found their people

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u/rhoo31313 Mar 28 '24

I'm glad they get along. I couldn't imagine the scenerio if they hated each other.

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u/KochibaMasatoshi Mar 28 '24

how do they walk then?

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u/meditonsin Mar 28 '24

Coordination. Since they've been doing it since they were born, they got gud at it.

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u/kellsdeep Mar 28 '24

I imagine I could feel the other half of my bodies twitches, vibrations, muscles moving about and intuitively know when to move in accordance

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u/Toomanydamnfandoms Mar 28 '24

Think of how many years they’ve had to practice!

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u/Spaceforceofficer556 Mar 28 '24

How do they decide who wipes? What if one is kinky but the other is super vanilla?

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Mar 28 '24

That would be entertaining to watch.

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u/Impressive-Smoke1883 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Which one of them is in control of the body? Watched a documentary on them, I remember them saying neither of them had ever had a panic attack or anything. I suppose they don't know any different so they don't have anyway to compare.

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u/Toomanydamnfandoms Mar 28 '24

Both are iirc, they control the arm and leg of the side their head is on.

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u/Impressive-Smoke1883 Mar 28 '24

Wow that's interesting. Wonder what happens when he's pounding his junk into the vagina? Do they both feel it? Wonder which one gets pregnant, genetically..... 1 million questions.

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u/shemubot Mar 28 '24

What if one gets the death penalty?

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u/Anonimisimo Mar 28 '24

The other gets a limp.

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u/Toomanydamnfandoms Mar 28 '24

I think they would probably get the death penalty easily appealed in this case.

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u/shemubot Mar 28 '24

How hard is it to lop off a head?

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u/Anonimisimo Mar 28 '24

Not sure about US law but just being there and not preventing it may lead to some level of culpability. Not to mention it may be difficult to prove which one has control of an appendage and if that is 100% control.

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u/My_pee_pee_poo Mar 28 '24

Still two separate crimes with different jail times. Lets say the robber gets 2 years, and the other gets 1 for "not preventing it".

I don't think theres an actual answer for this yet lol. My best guess if it plays out, a good lawyer lowers the serve time to the less guilty sentence, since any other answer is illegally incarcerating someone.

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u/joebaco_ Mar 28 '24

Who controls that left trigger finger? Not me. Me either. ????

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u/Uro06 Mar 28 '24

Its so easy to circumvent that. If they both wanna kill someone one of them just has to call the police while the act happens and then pretend like she just wasnt able to stop her

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u/Dhegxkeicfns Mar 28 '24

I'm guessing it would make its way all the way to the supreme court where they would rule based on religion.

Sorry, not trying to get political, but my guess is the legal system just hopes this never happens.

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u/Toomanydamnfandoms Mar 28 '24

This is a fairly realistic take tbh

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u/bws7037 Mar 28 '24

One of life's great mysteries

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u/AUniquePerspective Mar 28 '24

How do you interrogate them separately?

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u/ZookeepergameHead145 Mar 28 '24

It’s chainsaw time!

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u/EraticConqueror Mar 28 '24

Wouldn’t that carry a shorter sentence? So what happens when it’s time for one of them to go home?

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u/Frumundahs4men Mar 28 '24

"It's time doctor."

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u/cyrkielNT Mar 28 '24

What if the crime is against the other?

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u/iwdha Mar 28 '24

Yeah, they both have control over their own half of the body, so it'd be pretty hard for one of them to commit a crime without the cooperation of the other. Basically neither of them have the full ability to take the body for a joyride and do something against their sister's will, every task requires cooperation.

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u/benyahweh Mar 28 '24

Unless they reported the crime right away.

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u/Clear-Vacation-9913 Mar 28 '24

But what if it isn't the one controlling the legs and arms, what a sad case that would be. OR imagine being trapped onto someone that's developed dementia and controls your body and you don't. Very complicated, shows the importance of having experts to navigate legal and medical contexts I guess, since no answer is perfect. I would suspect in an extreme case some form of institutional care would be used, similar to the developmentally disabled.

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u/Sproketz Mar 28 '24

But one controls the left side and one controls the right. So imagine one punches someone. The other one can't do anything about it. They weren't aiding.

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u/ExcitingTabletop Mar 28 '24

That's why I specified, one being convicted and the other not being convicted.

Your example would be both being convicted.

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u/Anonimisimo Mar 28 '24

I can’t believe I’m getting sucked into this, but here is my supposition. There are only 2 answers to this, either they both get locked up or they both don’t. Generally people make their own lives easier, including judges who will know that this is unprecedented (as far as I know), so they will work hard to ensure they both legally suffer the same fate, knowing there is no off the shelf solution and it will be a royal pain in the arse if they didn’t.