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Undignified Deaths: A 25-year-old woman jumped to her death from a department store roof in Tokyo in November and, as sometimes happens with such suicides, she landed on a pedestrian (who was hospitalized in serious condition). At least five people choked to death in Japan over New Year’s, as usual, from eating the extremely sticky […]

“Jilted Lesbian Rugby Player Killed Herself After Brutally Beating Lover Who Had Webcam Affair” (Daily Mail (London)). “Man, 75, Hurt While Riding Pet Buffalo” (MSNBC.com version of an Associated Press story). “Boy Glues Hand to Bed to Avoid School” (MSNBC.com version of an Associated Press story).

In Chaparral, N.M., in December, a loaded .357 Magnum was being traced by two men onto a pattern to create a custom tattoo design, but somehow, the gun went off. Both men were hit by the same bullet, one in the hand and the other in the arm. A 77-year-old man in Des Moines, Iowa, […]

A 53-year-old man from Vernon, British Columbia, was arrested in January and charged with robbing a CIBC bank. He had left his 20-year-old companion in the getaway car listening to the radio, but when the alleged robber got in with the stash, they discovered that the car would not start because the radio had drained […]

On Nov. 18, two inebriated men in separate cars, driving by the Carpet Classic Floor Studio in Highland Township, Mich., lost control at the same time, and both smashed into the store. Christopher Dougherty, 22, the subject of a “drunk pedestrian” police call in Kingsport, Tenn., on Oct. 14, was tracked to a Hardee’s restaurant, […]

Police in Madison, Wis., believe they ended the spree of vandal defecations in an apartment house on Schroeder Road (laundry room, hallways, items of clothing) with the January arrest of Ronnie Ballard, 19. At Ballard’s first court appearance, Dane County Court Commissioner Todd Meurer set bail at $1,400 and issued a ruling he said he […]

It was not only banks in the U.S. that freely loaned money over the last few years, but also those in India, and not surprisingly, many of their debtors have recently run into trouble making payments. Indian banks, inexperienced at collecting from so many defaulting consumers, often prefer to hire “goondas” (thugs) to settle debts […]

The New Lucky Restaurant has been around since the 1950s in Ahmadabad, India, serving diners among the gravestones located at various points around the tables. No one is certain who was buried under the restaurant, according to a December Associated Press dispatch, but Indians aren’t much spooked by the experience. Said a retired professor: “Graveyards […]

Latest Ape-Human News: The 4th Texas Court of Appeals in January affirmed a lower court decision that monkeys and chimpanzees have no legal right to file lawsuits against an animal preserve for mistreatment. In Apeldoorn, Netherlands, however, one prominent member of the family is full of human nature: Sibu, an orangutan at the Apenheul Primate […]