Patrick Henry

Well, Patrick Henry is the “Give me liberty or give me death” guy, right? Turns out he was also the “Give my wife the basement or give her a mental hospital” guy. Talk about taking DIY too far! Sure, those old-timey mental hospitals were grim, but chaining up your spouse in the basement? 

That’s a whole new level of “home improvement.” It’s not hard to be inspired by Mr. Henry’s impassioned cries for freedom, but he might have had a little too much creative liberty when it came to his wife’s living quarters. Being locked up in your own house is hardly freedom.