# posted by Damon @ 1/22/2005 01:02:00 PM
American soldiers fire into a car killing the parents of the six children in the car. They were commiting an unforgivable crime - being on the road past curfew. In the soldiers' defense, it was said they they used hand signals to stop, fired warning shots, and fired shots to disable the vehicle, before finally firing fatally. Maybe true, except the part about trying to disable the car, several professional soldiers with automatic weapons can't disable an everyday car? Anyway, a depressing piece of news.
Looking for better feelings away from political news and Iraq, I came across a possibly worse
story because the irony; the chances are nil. A 67 year old woman goes into a coma in September after a stroke. It looks bad, her 71 year old husband visits everyday, sometimes up to four times a day. He tells the media he is losing faith. He losses all hope and gasses himself in his garage. Twelve hours later, his wife comes to and askes for her husband. Furthering the irony, this occurs 40 miles from the setting of Romeo and Juliet's similar ending.