Viking Funeral

As former chief investigator for the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, Jerry Webster has seen lots of unusual things. So he didn’t blink when a family called to ask if they could set their deceased loved one afire on a Viking-style raft and push his floating funeral pyre into Puget Sound

The human Swiss Army Knife

An eccentric Frenchman who goes by the name of Crazy Eric has entered the record books for the unusual feat of carrying permanently about his body more than 1,000 useful objects. Dubbed the human Swiss Army Knife, Eric is a 30-year-old electrician from the central-eastern city of Lyon who has a psychological obsession with neatness and an ingenious line in clothes design

Injured camper kills assailant

A hatchet-wielding man who lured a German tourist from his camper and then chopped his victim twice in the back of the head paid for the brazen attack with his life. The tourist, described by police sources as a 15-year-judo expert, turned the tables on his attacker Saturday morning and killed the thug with his bare hands, despite suffering two axe wounds to the head