A 21-stone Pennsylvania woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 8.6-stone boyfriend, by hitting him in the head with a table leg and then sitting on him so he couldn’t breathe. The woman, identified as Windi Thomas, said she had been drinking and craving crack cocaine when the incident took place.
Robber ‘blown up’ during cash machine haul
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Man protests local government with ‘massive middle finger’
A Vermont man has taken his ongoing grievance with his local council to the next level, erecting a £3,100 statue of a hand giving the middle finger, high above the treeline next to a busy highway. Local council has received complaints, but cannot remove the offending gesture as it is considered “public art”.