A curb stomp, also called curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone bite the curb is a form of assault in which a victim's mouth is forcefully placed on a curb and then stomped from behind, causing severe injuries and sometimes death.
Notable incidents
In July 2002, 16-year old German Marinus Schöberl was tortured by young, underage neo-Nazis in an abandoned pigsty in Oberuckersee and killed after curb-stomping. The main perpetrator, who was 17 at the time of the killing, was released after serving eight years in prison.
In 2003, Tacoma, Washington resident Randall Townsend was murdered by four people. David Nikos Pillatos, Scotty James Butters, and Tristain Lynn Frye beat and kicked Townsend while Kurtis William Monschke delivered the final blow: curb-stomping. Monschke had recently been named head of the Washington chapter of Volksfront. "Prosecutors said the attack was meant to lift Monschke's status in the white supremacist movement and to earn Frye a pair of red shoelaces, with the red signifying the drawing of blood."
Junko Furuta, a Japanese high school girl, was curb stomped among the various other tortures inflicted on her before her death.
Cultural references
On the twentieth season of American television seriesBig Brother, Houseguest Sam Bledsoe defines for fellow Houseguest J.C. Mounduix a "curb stomp" and terrifies him in the process. In the film American History X, white power skinheadDerek Vinyard curb-stomps Lawrence, an African American burglar who had tried to steal his truck. New Jerseymafia bossTony Soprano curb stomps New York mobster Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano for making lewd comments to his daughter in The Sopranos episode "The Second Coming". WWE professional wrestler Seth Rollins previously used a curb stomp as his finishing move. Rollins said that he stopped using the move as "from a PR standpoint... it was too perceptually violent... I never hurt anyone with it. It was just something we didn't want kids trying on each other". On the January 15, 2018, edition of Monday Night Raw, Rollins brought the move back but now it's referred to simply as "stomp". In the Bollywood movie Shootout at Lokhandwala, a scene is depicted where Vivek Oberoi curb stomps a local resident who informs the police about Aslam who is encountered by the police.
