A typo in a cake recipe in a Swedish food magazine poisoned four people and sent them to the hospital. Publishers recalled all 10,000 copies of their Matmagasinet food magazine, sent a warning letter to its 50,000 subscribers, and placed a leaflet in store copies.
"There was a mistake in a recipe for apple cake. Instead of calling for two pinches of nutmeg it said 20 nutmeg nuts were needed," said Matmagasinet’s Chief Editor Ulla Cocke. "At first we thought this would be enough, because we didn’t really think anyone would bake or eat this cake, since so much nutmeg would give it a horrible, bitter taste, and because it is simply not that easy to get hold of that much nutmeg," Cocke said. But when the publishers discovered that people had actually eaten and been poisoned by the cake, they immediately recalled all copies of the magazine issue.
Four adults ate one cake made from this recipe and experienced severe dizziness and headaches, but all are expected to recover.
"We publish 1,200 recipes each year, and of course there have been times when they’ve had a bit too much butter or too little flour, but we have never experienced anything like this before," Cocke told AFP.
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A Florida man went on a violent rampage after a minor fender-bender, stabbing the occupants of a car, then running over and killing a woman in another vehicle.
Police arrested Casey Weldon Till, 26, and charged him with murder and carjacking. They had found Till at his home from a prescription pill bottle left at the scene. Police allege Till murdered Odalis Cespedes, 41, by running her over twice with his car. Till told police he was high on crack at the time, as if that somehow excuses his crime.
The incident started when Till’s minivan slammed into a stopped car driven by Cespedes’ daughter, 19-year-old Ivon Despaigne, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Angel Gonzalez. When the couple went to check the damage, Till slashed Gonzalez’s throat and stabbed Despaigne in the neck.
Till then got into the couple’s car and repeatedly rammed the vehicle ahead, in which Cespedes was sitting. Cespedes got out of the car, removed her 6-month-old granddaughter from her car seat, and was trying to escape with the baby in her arms when Till ran her over and killed her. Fortunately, the baby was unharmed. Hopefully Till will be locked away for a very long time.
A kite surfer remained in critical condition after being dragged and thrown across Fort Lauderdale Beach by Tropical Storm Fay. A local news crew caught Kevin Kearney’s accident on video. “The wind was whipping around, picking him up and dragging him around,” said Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Chief Lois Bowman. The kite surfer hit the sand, was picked up again by the strong wind and blown out of camera range. Emergency workers treated him at the scene and then brought him to the hospital, where Kearney is being treated for a serious head injury and lacerations on his arms and legs.
A U.K. businessman is surely to win the "Creative Suicide" contest. Gerald Mellin, 54, decapitated himself in his sports car to get back at his younger wife for leaving him.
Mellin tied one end of a rope to a tree, got into his Aston Martin, and wrapped the other end of the rope around his neck. He then drove the $150,000 sports car into a busy road, giving other drivers a front-seat view of his horrific death as his head popped off and rolled into traffic.
The day before Mellin’s suicide, a court awarded an extra £100 per week in alimony to his estranged wife, Mirielle, 33. In response, Mr. Mellin sent Mirrielle a text message that said "Congratulations XXX" and asked to meet.
"We met in a pub after a court hearing and he started having a tantrum," Mrs. Mellin said. "As we made our way back to our cars he opened the boot and said, ‘There’s my rope, that’s what I’m going to kill myself with.’ I told him to grow up and give me the rope. But he just laughed." Nobody’s laughing now.
More at the DailyMail
Pirates armed with machetes hacked a U.S. tourist to death and seriously wounded his wife in an attack aboard the couple’s sailboat in Guatemala. Nancy Dryden, 67, said her husband, Daniel Perry Dryden, 66, was killed by four men who boarded their boat while it was anchored in Lake Izabal.
"They poked us and stabbed us with the machetes, and they were asking for money, specifically dollars," said Dryden, who in a Guatemalan hospital in stable condition. The couple complied with the demands, but the robbers were apparently unhappy with their booty. "We had a few quetzales (Guatemala’s currency), but we had no dollars with us on the boat," Dryden said.
Dryden said the four men swam from shore to reach their boat. After murdering her husband, the men demanded Nancy hand over the boat keys. When she refused, the men surprisingly left and swam back to shore. Nancy struggled over to the boat’s radio and sent out a distress call. "I said we need help … my husband was not moving."
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At least 38 Warao Indians in remote Venezuela were killed by rabies spread by bites from vampire bats. Police have yet to confirm the cause, but the symptoms point to rabies.
If not vaccinated immediately after exposure to rabies, human victims will suffer horrible symptoms on their way to death. Symptoms include fever, body pain, tingling in the feet, a progressive paralysis, and an extreme fear of water. In the final days, victims will experience convulsions and grow rigid. There is no truth to reports that victims grow fangs, hunger for blood and avoid daylight.
Venezuelan health officials are investigating the outbreak and planning to distribute mosquito nets to shield villagers from bats. The government is also sending a medical boat to help treat victims.
A man in Long Island, New York, was charged with driving drunk with his wife on the roof of their car. Police said Diamond Mircea was fighting with his wife, Monica Mircea, at their home around 12:30 Sunday morning. They said he got into the car, and his wife climbed onto the car’s roof to try to stop him. The husband drove about a block when his wife fell to the street and hit her head. She is now hospitalized in critical condition.
Police booked the husband on vehicular assault and driving while intoxicated. He’s in jail pending arraignment.
In spite of all our differences, the one thing that binds all living creatures is that we each have an expiration date. This finality to our existence is what makes life special, something to be cherished and protected. But occasionally things can go terribly wrong…
