An odd story and a few perhaps not so surprising ones…
// March 25th, 2010 // Thoughts, Violence
Can a piece of a toothpick kill you?
Enter the late Mr. Sherwood Anderson who died of Peritonitis (inflammation/irritation of the tissue that lines the wall of the abdomen and covers the abdominal organs) in the 1940s due to ingestion of a piece of toothpick apparently hidden in an olive or piece of food.
http://sherwoodandersonfoundation.org/2006/07/an_early_encounter_with_sherwo.php
Tasers have killed 300+ people since 2001. It doesn’t take much…
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/us-teenager-killed-police-taser-attack-20090323
… but you also get those who are a bit over eager,
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/22/taser.death/index.html
