A 21-year-old woman was allegedly updating her Facebook page by mobile phone when she struck and killed a 70-year-old pedestrian. More »
Here’s a sad reminder that USB cables belong plugged into peripherals, not children. Toddler Trinity Anderson was playing with a USB cable plugged into a laptop and put it in her mouth, which shocked her and knocked her out. More »
My brother is notorious for watching DVDs on his laptop while speeding down the highway (I just twitter on my phone). This is why he shouldn’t.
Here’s a very sad story. A man and his oldest daughter used the GPS locator feature on the wife’s phone to track her down and discover she was cheating. He then killed all his kids.
A five-year-old boy allegedly stabbed her ten-year-old sister over a Nintendo DS. The prosecutor says that little Chucky here thought the knife was part of a Power Rangers game. Update: It may have been the mother!
Flight 3407, a commuter plane crashed into a home in upstate New York and erupted in flames earlier tonight. Authorities say the death toll is currently at 49 people. Update
As much as we love using technology everywhere, this sad story of a truck driver killing a family of six reminds us to never use laptops when driving.
Edward Richardson, douche bag, got what he deserved this week when a jury of his peers convicted him of murdering wife Sarah Richardson, after she changed her Facebook status from “married” to “single.”
Just two weeks after arriving at Virginia Tech, a 22-year-old graduate student from China was murdered. The alleged killer, also Chinese, decapitated her with a kitchen knife at a local coffee shop.
Daniel Petric, a 17-year-old who was on trial for killing his mum and shooting his dad after being banned from playing Halo 3, has been convicted of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges. Since writing the original article documenting how Petric broke into his father’s safe to retrieve his copy of Halo 3 while equipping himself with his father’s 9mm handgun, Petric’s attempted last words to his parents have revisited me now and again—”Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you.”—my mind accompanying the chilling lines with a vivid if not necessarily accurate rendition of the evening. [AP via Kotaku]
