im fairly certain that getting shanghaid is a term from seattle too. iirc there was a brothel where the madam would knock you unconscious or use ether or something, while you were talking to one of her girls thinking that you were about to get your dick sucked, then they would take you unconscious through tunnels to the docks and put you on a boat and you would wake up out at sea with the option of working on the boat or being thrown overboard to die. the boats always went to shanghai. im pretty sure there was also some sort of bounty for bringing bodies to the morgue, and the same madam was later arrested for straight up killing her customers by dropping bricks out of the third floor window and then turning in their bodies for the reward claiming that they were drunks who had died in the street or something.
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