Posts Tagged ‘ odd news ’

Japanese woman gets death sentence for curry murder

May 13, 2009
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Japan’s Supreme Court sentenced a woman to death for killing four and making more than 60 ill by poisoning a large pot of curry at a summer festival in 1998. The incident shocked Japan as crime rates are relatively low and mass killings are extremely rare. Reports say that Supreme Court upheld a lower...

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Woman attacked by 200-pound wild hog

April 23, 2009
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St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue reported that a 26-year-old woman was told there was a pig in her back yard on Monday afternoon. When she went outside to investigate, the 200-pound animal charged her, cutting the back of her left leg. Officials said a wild hog attacked a woman in the back yard of...

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