"It seems to me that it can't have been a single stab wound. He seems to have worked on it. The pencil was blunt."
-East Sussex (UK) coroner Alan Craze discusses the strange death of Jeffrey Burton. Burton, a 57-year-old window cleaner, "died after stabbing himself in the groin repeatedly with a jumbo souvenir pencil." The case was recorded as an "open verdict," a ruling indicating that while the death was suspicious, no final deliberation could be made as to whether or not it was suicide.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Are those jumbo souvenir pencil stab wounds in your groin or are you just happy to see me?
of course it was blunt. you'd need a knife to sharpen a pencil that big, and if he'd had a knife handy, well--
This is why I support legislation requiring an eraser on both ends of all jumbo souvenir pencils.
Ha!
This is the work of a serial killer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWQWILZdoE&feature=related
Pencilcrime.
'That's not a knife, THIS is a knife.'
'That's a pencil.'