Man Kills Wife for Breaking His Star Wars Toys
You know, I think it’s kinda cool when grown men have silly hobbies, like painting miniatures, or reading comic books, or collecting Star Wars memorabilia. It shows that they have a playful side, and that they don’t take themselves too seriously. The key words in that sentence are “silly,” “hobbies,” and “don’t take themselves too seriously.” None of those describe the next story, about 30-year-old Ricki La-Touche.
According to the Mirror, Ricki and his wife, a Thai woman named Pornpilai Srisroy, who had a violent stand off that ended in Srisoy’s death by suffocation. The matter of the argument? Srisroy had destroyed Ricki’s “precious Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker memorabilia.” As Ricki would later tell police, it was all a part of her campaign to “make his life hell,” and I guess it worked, because Ricki will now spend at least 12 years in prison for manslaughter. Imagine telling THAT one to the ol’ cell mates.
“Hate crime, huh? Well that’s nothin’. I’m in the joint because I choked my wife to death. On accident. Because she broke my Star Wars toys. TOUGH AS NAILS, I AM.”
Eh, I don’t know. Doesn’t sound as ballsy as I thought it would. But it is reason #29,111 not to get married: your wife might destroy the only (totally weird and a tad immature) thing you care about in the world and make you so angry you accidentally kill her.