Only In The USA. Part MMCLIX

From today's Sydney Morning Herald, the latest in an occasional series...

Angry man saws house in half

A US man angry that he was not going to be sold a house is accused of using a power saw to slice it in half.

Rodney Rogers apparently thought an acquaintance was going to build a house im Hillsboro, Ohio, and sell it to him, and he was living in it while it was being completed, Highland County Sheriff Ronald Ward said today.

After the acquaintance refused to complete the sale, Rogers used a power saw last week to make a lateral cut through the walls and siding at about chest level, authorities said.

He cut all the way around the house, Ward said.

Only one thing was keeping the top half of the house in place on the bottom half.

"Gravity," Ward said.

The owners had not estimated the dollar value of the damage, Ward said.

Rogers, 66, remained free pending a court appearance tomorrow.

AP

Angry redneck + powertools = nothing good.

Meanwhile... in China:

'Cheat' killed with lover's poisonous kiss

A Chinese woman who killed her lover with a rat poison-laced kiss when she suspected him of being unfaithful has been sentenced to death, a newspaper said on Thursday.

Xia Xinfeng, from Maolou in the central province of Henan, passed a capsule with rat poison from her mouth to her long-time lover, Mao Ansheng, during a kiss, the Shanghai Daily said.

Mao swallowed the capsule and died soon afterwards.

"The couple had said that if either one of them cheated on the other, he or she would have to die," the paper said in explaining the mouth-to-mouth assault.

Xia found Mao had been "talking" with another woman and deemed that he had broken their promise.

Reuters

Mmmm ~ rat poison...