ultraviolence

  • Delivery Room Brawl Leaves Mother and Baby in Critical Condition

    As if that didn’t sound horrifying enough, know this–the brawl was between the two doctors responsible for the mother-to-be and her unborn child. The site of this terrible story is the Polyclinic Hospital in Messina, on the Italian island of Sicily, where Laura Salpietro and her husband, Matteo Molonia,...
  • SWAT called in when Colorado craft fair turns ugly

    Police and SWAT teams were called into Fort Collins, Colorado to break up a group of approximately 400 rioters who had been attending a music and crafts festival. It has been reported that police were called to the New West Fest at around 1am after receiving three separate calls...
  • Russian man tried to stab his way out of jail prophecy

    A Russian man was sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security prison after a fortune teller told him something that he didn’t want to hear. On October 8 of last year Gennady Osipovich met a Gypsy fortune teller who told him that he was headed for “kazyonny dom”,...
  • Fortune teller-inspired ‘torture’ session played out to Lady Gaga soundtrack

    A couple accused of tying up and torturing a teenage employee told a Darwin court that they did so because a Vietnamese fortune teller told them that she was stealing. dos Santos, 18, described a family-like atmosphere between herself and the Trans to the court, that got a little...
  • Comic-Con attendee “stabbed in face” by angry Potter fan [latest details]

    Police have released further details relating to the Comic-Con stabbing incident that occurred on Saturday. Apparently, the incident occurred when an argument of the proximity of the two attendees seats got out of hand. The injured man was treated for a minor cut near his eye. His alleged attacker,...
  • Comic-Con attendee “stabbed in face” by angry Potter fan

    A Comic-Con attendee was allegedly stabbed in the face with a pen by a Harry Potter fan. Information on the incident remains sketchy, but according to MTV, the disagreement was over seating – or lack thereof. The alleged victim was reportedly saving a seat for a friend. The Harry...
  • Acne-picking and other bizarre “causes of death” in Chinese prisons

    While it might be argued that a person is “lucky” to be sent to prison in a country where some 68 crimes (including gold and silver smuggling) are punishable by death, beating the firing squad in China is no guarantee of safety. The prisons, it would seem, are just...
  • Boys aged 5, 7 hack fugitive to death with sickles

    When a pair of brothers approached police officers in Pilibhit district, India and told them that they had killed a hardened career criminal – they were met with disbelief, until they saw the boys’ blood-stained sleeves. After hearing the two boys, aged five and seven repeat, “Humne Mahendra ko...
  • Gospel loving family beat soccer fan to death in channel battle

    A South African soccer fan was beaten to death so that his family could watch a religious television program. Anyone with siblings will know that battles over remote controls are serious business – they can even turn violent. Thankfully the violence usually falls short of the type that was...