Man Dies After Eating Library Paste - Goldfield, Nevada 1908
Alum is said to have been the poison in the paste.
In this Laurel & Hardy film, it is credited with mouth-drying powers, when it is accidentally used to dust marshmallows!
Its uses are explored on this Wikipedia page, at least one use is culinary!
Depends on the dose, I suppose!
@Tribble how did you find this?
I follow Atlas Obscura on Twitter. They have a lot of interesting articles.
Alum is said to have been the poison in the paste.
In this Laurel & Hardy film, it is credited with mouth-drying powers, when it is accidentally used to dust marshmallows!
Its uses are explored on this Wikipedia page, at least one use is culinary!
Depends on the dose, I suppose!
indeed!
I am disappointed however. I wanted you to have a search set up on "paste eating people"
Maybe that's what they used to dry out the gherkins before pickling? Safer to use standard salt, I think.When I was in NY in 2001 I bought a jar of pickled gurkins as one of the few items in the store that I could recognise.
They tasted disgusting and when I checked the label, it listed alum as an ingredient. :O
Man Dies After Eating Library Paste - Goldfield, Nevada 1908
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6188502/man_dies_after_eating_library_paste/
Truly Horrific.
A pregnant woman has been killed by dogs in a forest in northern France where a hunt with hounds was taking place, investigators have said.
The body of Elisa Pilarski, 29, who was walking her own dogs, was discovered near the town of Villers-Cotterêts.She died after "several dog bites to the upper and lower limbs and the head," prosecutor Frédéric Trinh said. Police said they were carrying out tests on 93 dogs and that they had opened a manslaughter investigation. The tests, comparing fresh DNA samples with those taken from Ms Pilarski, will try to establish which animals were responsible for the attack and who they belonged to. Five dogs belonging to Ms Pilarski, who was reportedly six months pregnant at the time of her death, were among those being tested.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50483602
I want to say again, many thanks to feinman for finding the story about the electrocution by suicide, certainly very sad.
I am now starting to read the entire court decision, which, of course will take awhile, since it is very long.
The wind / whirlwind shown in the video is a sufficient - and sufficiently scary - disturbance to cause a driver to panic, lose control, and wreck
Where's that post? I'd like to read it, can't find it!
SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/asia/india-boys-died-stew-intl-hnk-scli/index.htmlIn separate cases, two boys in India fell into big pots of hot stew. Both died of burns
A three-year-old boy has become the second child to die of burn injuries in southern India this month after both fell into large cooking pots of hot stew in separate, unrelated incidents.
The toddler was playing when he fell into a pot of sambhar at a party thrown by his family to celebrate the opening of a shop on November 18 in Shabad, Telangana state, said G. Narsaiah, an inspector with Shabad police.
Sambhar is a spicy lentil-based vegetable stew that is popular in southern India.
The boy accidentally moved the lid covering the pot and fell in, Narsaiah said. He was rushed to hospital but died of burn injuries.
His father has filed a complaint with police but no arrests have been made.
Second death
Two people, including a school principal, are being investigated by police for negligence resulting in death over a similar, but unconnected, incident on November 13.
In that case, a six-year-old kindergarten student named Behlapuram Reddy died after falling into a pot of sambhar at a school in Panyam village, in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh state.
Reddy rushed with his classmates into the dining hall at the start of the school's lunch hour, said R.M. Basha, assistant sub-inspector of Panyam police.
"When the boy ran in, he fell into the sambhar bowl. No school authorities were available. Some local workers pulled him out and took him to the hospital," Basha said.
In India, school lunches are cooked in large pots that can be up to four feet (1.2 meters) in diameter.
The child was treated for burns at the local hospital but succumbed to his injuries last week.
Reddy's father registered a case at the Panyam police station later that evening and police are now investigating. The two people under investigation were being held on judicial remand. ...
I once witnessed an attempted murder by electrocution.
The only known 'suicide by library paste' case anywhere in the world. It's still discussed in medical & psychology circles to this day.
The clipping doesn't mention suicide, just that the man was starved - many people (eg me) have tried a mouthful of flour and water paste when peckish making paper mache.
... And wft is library paste anyway? ...
In the given timeframe (1908) it was probably made more or less as described in this recipe:
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/recipe7.html
One of Mother Teresa's former assistants dies... in bar brawl.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/mother-teresas-former-assistant-killed-in-bar-brawl
...CCTV footage of the murder, ripping the computer out and throwing it over the back wall of the pub...