BUT I've known plenty of women who were CAUGHT hurling bottles, plates and other things AT THE HUSBAND.. and not a ONE got even TALKED TO by the cops for suspicion of DV...
Originally Posted by garhkal
Garhkal... check this out, it's from a 1984 newspaper story... I couldn't help laughing at the time.
Harrisburg, Pa. (AP) — A man whose wife weighed twice as much as he did was squashed to death when she sat on him during a domestic quarrel, the Dauphin County coroner said Thursday.
Kay Weaver, 36, sat on her husband Kenneth, 41, for five to ten minutes in their rural home in nearby Elizabethville, said Dr. William B. Bush, the county coroner.
“The massive amount of pressure on his chest rendered him unable to breathe,” said Bush, whose office conducted an autopsy and investigation. “Because of that, he suffocated.”
State trooper Claude Mohr, who investigated the case, said Mrs. Weaver weighs about 280 pounds. Bush said the woman’s husband was a “very small, very thin” man, weighing between 125 and 140 pounds.
Mrs. Weaver was not in custody and will probably not be charged, the trooper said. “She was trying to restrain her husband,” Mohr said. “There’s no indication there was any foul play intended.”