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She Held Him at Toast Point
Credit blogger Tim Blair for noting this horrifying item from the Victoria (Texas) Advocate:
Karbowski Mariela Quinonez Karbowski, 29, is accused of beating her estranged husband, Terry Karbowski, 63, to death with a two-slice toaster in early August when he came to her Victoria home on a visit from Houston. Then, charges allege, she drove his body, the toaster and a gun through Houston to Liberty County where she threw all three in a rain-swollen Trinity River a short distance from a bar owned by Karbowski and run by the man's son in the town of Liberty.
This underscores the need for effective toaster control. Plainly existing laws are not enough to prevent far too many Americans from dying in toaster-related violence--to say nothing of accidental fires and electrocutions. Our goal should be a total ban on toasters, but at the very least we should be demanding laws requiring licensing of toasters, a 30-day waiting period before buying a toaster, and locks to prevent children from accidentally setting off the toaster's "trigger." It's a chilling thought indeed that in kitchens across America children have easy access to weapons like this one.
Toasters are so dangerous that in most states even the police don't carry them. Toaster nuts claim that the appliances have a long heritage in America, but scholars at Emory University have demonstrated that in fact colonists owned very few toasters. Jack Sorensen points out that "popping toast in your toaster might blow up the universe"--making toasters the only devices sold in America that can cause total annihilation when used as directed. We must stamp out this scourge.
http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/front/story/727174p-861120c.html
She Held Him at Toast Point
Credit blogger Tim Blair for noting this horrifying item from the Victoria (Texas) Advocate:
Karbowski Mariela Quinonez Karbowski, 29, is accused of beating her estranged husband, Terry Karbowski, 63, to death with a two-slice toaster in early August when he came to her Victoria home on a visit from Houston. Then, charges allege, she drove his body, the toaster and a gun through Houston to Liberty County where she threw all three in a rain-swollen Trinity River a short distance from a bar owned by Karbowski and run by the man's son in the town of Liberty.
This underscores the need for effective toaster control. Plainly existing laws are not enough to prevent far too many Americans from dying in toaster-related violence--to say nothing of accidental fires and electrocutions. Our goal should be a total ban on toasters, but at the very least we should be demanding laws requiring licensing of toasters, a 30-day waiting period before buying a toaster, and locks to prevent children from accidentally setting off the toaster's "trigger." It's a chilling thought indeed that in kitchens across America children have easy access to weapons like this one.
Toasters are so dangerous that in most states even the police don't carry them. Toaster nuts claim that the appliances have a long heritage in America, but scholars at Emory University have demonstrated that in fact colonists owned very few toasters. Jack Sorensen points out that "popping toast in your toaster might blow up the universe"--making toasters the only devices sold in America that can cause total annihilation when used as directed. We must stamp out this scourge.
