I used to work with an ex-cop named R. The reason he was an ex-cop when I knew him was this:
He and his partner were sent to a house with the report of domestic violence. They went into the house where the husband was in the middle of beating up the wife. They grabbed the husband and put him in cuffs, not watching the wife. As R was turning toward the wife again, she smashed the side of his face with a cast-iron skillet, breaking his jaw, cracking his skull and shattering all the teeth in the right side of his face. He spent two months with his jaw wired shut and decided to quit the force after that.
She hit him for daring to lay hands on her husband. There’s no understanding some people.
My ex’s wife was carrying on with some pretty bad guys after the ex died. The boyfriend had been smacking her around pretty bad and when he was asleep, she buried an axe in his face. Took his eye out, but he lived. There was also talk of someone planning to inject him with air. Somehow she got out of it. They got back together.
A short time later, he tossed her out a 3rd floor window. She lived.
She remarried a few years ago and was arrested for trying to run her husband over with her pickup truck. Somehow she beat that one, too.
Until I read this invaluable piece of information, I had formed the opinion that your view of violent fatalities was focused primarily on the humorous aspects of such premature expiries, regrettable though these may be.
My opinion has changed.
Instead of contaminating this thread with facts, you could have invented at least one frying pan related autopsy for us to discuss. Or is it now the case that this forum is to be a domain forever and exclusively confined to matters factual from now on?
I also take this opportunity to Pit all murderers of the modern era for lack of invention in their choice of weapon. I fully believe that murderers in the ‘good old days’ would have used frying pans more often than is currently the case.