a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.

But as the men turned the corner, trying to steady the floppy corpse, they ran into the law. At Empanada Mama, a restaurant next door to the Pay-O-Matic, Travis L. Rapp, a detective, had sat down to lunch.

seems like there is a suitcase-full-of-dollars story every few years

amusing info on the dire problem of meatlifting

update on the Banco Rio heist from my first days in BsAs

1950's plane bombing in Quebec, by a man eager to kill off his wife and get insurance money. Three people hanged(!) as a consequence

extraordinary public demonstrations at Tangxia over what looks like the coverup of the murder of a local woman by her wealthy abusive husband. Photos of a full-scale riot unreported in the mainland media

Residents said the high-quality sand around the reservoir attracted the illegal sand-diggers, most of whom are from outside Beijing. They usually work at night and transport sand by trucks.

ridding the mean streets of saskatoon of harmless, horny deaf/mute guys and other human vermin

more detailed info on the Banco Río robbery [spanish]

exhaustive site on Australian escapee convicts/bandits who lived off the land in the 19th century

firsthand account of infiltrating the Mongols, a superviolent biker gang