Steve Tran of Westminster, California, wanted
to kill the cockroaches in his apartment once and for all. So, he activated 25
bug bombs (even though the label said 2 should do the trick) and closed the
door. The fumes reached the pilot light of...
In the spring of 1894, the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a
routine baseball game. But what happened that day was anything but routine. The
Orioles’ John McGraw got into a fight with the Boston third baseman. Within
minutes all the...
Two men, driving in Southern California, got into a battle of
road rage after one cut the other off in a parking lot. The hot-headed men sped
out of the parking lot in a fit of anger, chasing, driving recklessly, dodging
and weaving in and out of...
John Hunter was a man arrogant in demeanor and possessed a violent and ungovernable temper. He was accustomed to say, “My life is at the mercy of any scoundrel who chooses to put me in a passion.”
In
a 1994 article, “Wars’ Lethal Leftovers Threaten Europeans,” Associated Press
reporter Christopher Burns writes: “The bombs of World War II are still killing
in Europe. They turn up—and sometimes blow up—at construction sites, in fishing
nets...
Many years ago a
senior executive of the then Standard Oil Company made a wrong decision that
cost the company more than $2 million. John D. Rockefeller was then running the
firm. On the day the news leaked out most of the executives of the...
When a rattlesnake is cornered, sometimes it becomes so angry that it bites itself. When a man harbors hatred or bitterness in his heart he is poisoning himself just like the rattlesnake that bites itself.
Lam Luong, a 37 year-old man, confessed that after
getting angry about a dispute with his wife, he murdered his four young
children by throwing them off the Dauphin Island Bridge.