British Man Kills Wife For Breaking His Star Wars Toys

By on November 8, 2011 in News 74

starwarsI usually tune people out when they complain about how the population is becoming infantilized. However, case in point  — a 30-year-old British man murdered his wife after finding she had smashed his Darth Vader action figures and then “ran sobbing to his mother who lived nearby,” reports the Mirror:

A Star Wars fan was yesterday jailed for life after murdering his wife in an alleged revenge attack for smashing up his cherished toy collection.

Rickie La-Touche, 30, told a court that his Thai wife Pornpilai Srisroy, 28, had damaged his precious Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker memorabilia. He later suffocated her during a row and then ran sobbing to his mother who lived nearby.

La-Touche later told police his wife had smashed up his Star Wars collection as part of a campaign to “make his life hell”. He also claimed he “flipped” when she threatened to leave him to go back to Thailand.

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  • Hadrian999

    what a childish piece of garbage

  • ArgosyJones

    Sounds like a 9/11 truther, or a Mac user to me.  No surprise there.

  • Rebels!

    Or maybe a deranged Star Wars fan….. 

  • Rebels!

    Or maybe a deranged Star Wars fan….. 

  • Regan

    This story has it all twisted. He caught is wife masturbating with the Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker action figures. She said she was going to do Han Solo and Chewbacca next, that’s why he killed her! 

  • Lute

    Shouldn’t have smashed his toys then.

  • Youre-a-sick-fuck

    Really? Is this a joke to you? Is the loss of another life meaningless? I hope someone snaps and you die a PAINFUL and VILE death!

  • http://profiles.google.com/adaptorlive Adaptor Live

    Wishing someone dead doesn’t really help your ‘life is precious’ argument…

  • Regan

    People that are mentally unstable amuse me, like yourself. 

    And how do you know I was making a joke? What if that’s what really happened?    

  • Anonymous

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… what the hell is wrong with some people?

  • guy fauXs

    Can someone please explain “during a row” is this an argument, feud or just raging out?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754852601 Melanie Mashup

    aw now he can’t play with any of his ‘toys’

  • Anonymous

    His journey to the dark side is complete…

  • Red Sox Fan

    Yes please… I also have no idea what they meant by that.   Maybe some crazy UK slang thing, like calling cigarettes fags, cigarettes have no gender! Which is not as bad as adding extra syllables when they are not needed. Example: They say Al-U-Min-Um, when it’s pronounced A-luminum! Almost as crazy as when they call me a yank, when I’m clearly a Red Sox fan, geese, stupid Brits.

  • Tony

    What is wrong with people these days? A guy kills his wife for smashing his Star Wars toys, another guy kills his gf for “stealing” his Halloween candy, and a teenager kills his grandmother (who is a former cop) because she berated him for skipping school! Are we reaching the garbage strands of our DNA or is there something in the water we drink? Either way, something is terribly wrong!

  • Chongdee

    Yes, something is terribly wrong.

    A.) Stupid people breed too much. (Education is deliberately shitty) B.) The water is NOT safe to drink. (More pharmaceuticals in the water than at CVS)
    C.) We are constantly bombarded by lies, propaganda and subliminal messaging. 
    D.) People are being push to their limits by the corrupt system that run things.

    How I deal with it —-> Marijuana. :-)  

  • damg

    you fail. we pronounce Aluminium in the way it is spelt. AL YOU MINI UM. your spelling sucks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium
    plus, we are not Geese, we are human beings.

    as for the story, well lets just say that this guy will definitely be “feeling the force” of Bubba’s Lightsaber in jail no doubt. either that or he’ll be in solitary, spending the night with Hand Solo. sorry couldn’t resist!

  • Aleph Omega

    I think the real puzzling question of this whole case is, “how did a Star Wars geek manage to land such a hot wife?”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IGVXQOSZKDUNDS3ZCENDMDDJQI Mike

    What was her problem?  She may have had some complaints but taking it out on Luke and Vader is not acceptable.

  • guy fauXs

    Do I have to insult your people to get an answer?… GodDamned Geese! Go smoke a fag!

  • Red Sox Fan

    My spelling is fine, thank you.

    Name: Aluminum 
    Symbol: Al 
    Atomic Number: 13 
    Atomic Mass: 26.981539 amu 
    Melting Point: 660.37 °C (933.52 K, 1220.666 °F) 
    Boiling Point: 2467.0 °C (2740.15 K, 4472.6 °F) 
    Number of Protons/Electrons: 13 
    Number of Neutrons: 14 
    Classification: Other Metals 
    Crystal Structure: Cubic 
    Density @ 293 K: 2.702 g/cm3 
    Color: Silver 
    British Spelling: Aluminium 
    IUPAC Spelling: Aluminium
    http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele013.html

    You say it wrong, get over it.

  • Randle

    It’s pronounced ”ah-LOO-men-em” you idiot.

  • damg

    check out the pronunciation in the wiki link. unless you’re deaf. i am scottish, i pronounce it the way it is pronounced here. you’re the fucking idiot.

  • damg

    no, we say it differently.
    The spelling aluminium is the international standard in the sciences according to the IUPAC recommendations. Humphry Davy, the element’s discoverer, first proposed the name alumium, and then later aluminum. The name aluminium was finally adopted to conform with the -ium ending of metallic elements. Canada uses aluminum and Australia and New Zealand aluminium, according to their respective dictionaries.
    hope this clears it up.

  • damg

    fag 1 –
    1. a. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.b. A drudge.
    2. Chiefly British Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
    v. fagged, fag·ging, fags
    v.intr.1. To work to exhaustion; toil.2. To function as the servant of another student in a British public school.
    v.tr. To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.
    fag 2 n. Slang A cigarette.[Short for fag end]
    fag 3  (fg)n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.[Short for faggot.]

  • damg

    see how it is the INTERNATIONAL STANDARD spelling. not that anything international should bother Americans right enough, i’ve heard you guys don’t play too well with the other kids….

  • guy fauXs

    row

    noun

    an argument or fight. British slang.Due to Google’s penalty against this site, the following citation has been removed: “Man arrested after ‘pulling gun during pub language row’”, The Telegraph, Andrew Hough, 20 June 2011

  • mira

    Finally, I believe that Idiocracy is not just a movie, it’s a clear prophecy about future of our planet.

  • Red Sox Fan

    Thank you. 

    I knew is was some strange UK slang. 

  • Red Sox Fan

    I never trust Wikipedia. Thanks for the history lesson though, seriously, I didn’t know all that much about it. Us Americans really don’t play well with others. Every time I hear someone from another country say aluminum, aluminium, or whatever, I cringe because it sounds so so wrong compared to how we say it.
     
    If you called my business and asked from some “AL You Min Um” we would have no idea what your talking about. It’s happened a couple of times, a worker will ask me; “this guy is asking for a ‘al you min um’ mounting plate?” I will have to explain that he really meant ‘ah loo men um’ so his order gets placed correctly. So I’m not saying you mispronounced it just because I think it sounds funny. I said it because pronouncing it that way makes it harder to do business here in the states. I guess its just simply a type language barrier.      

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000480492140 Tony Traverso

    at the very least she deserved to have her hands and arms broken

  • guy fauXs

    lmao. like it really needed to be this difficult… WTF is wrong with this community?

  • Anonymous

    La Li Lu Le Lo

  • Anonymous

    Oh, this is more than a joke. This is a mockery, and there will be belly laughs.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve never watched a British Television Show or a Broadcast on BBC in your entire life!?

    Dialectical differences are not “strange.” I would suggest you’ve led quite a sheltered life if that’s what you believe.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve never watched a British Television Show or a Broadcast on BBC in your entire life!?

    Dialectical differences are not “strange.” I would suggest you’ve led quite a sheltered life if that’s what you believe.

  • Anonymous

    So you are asserting that the progenitors of the English language (the British) would have difficulty completing transactions in the US because of a “language barrier?”

    Wow, if the measure of English is now set by someone with the name “Red Sox Fan” I believe it can now properly be termed a “dead language.”

  • Anonymous

    So you are asserting that the progenitors of the English language (the British) would have difficulty completing transactions in the US because of a “language barrier?”

    Wow, if the measure of English is now set by someone with the name “Red Sox Fan” I believe it can now properly be termed a “dead language.”

  • Anonymous

    So you are asserting that the progenitors of the English language (the British) would have difficulty completing transactions in the US because of a “language barrier?”

    Wow, if the measure of English is now set by someone with the name “Red Sox Fan” I believe it can now properly be termed a “dead language.”

  • Anonymous

    So you are asserting that the progenitors of the English language (the British) would have difficulty completing transactions in the US because of a “language barrier?”

    Wow, if the measure of English is now set by someone with the name “Red Sox Fan” I believe it can now properly be termed a “dead language.”

  • Anonymous

    Not ‘wrong’ – differently.  And your version of English standard dialect, i am sure, is not the same as mine; however i would hesitate before telling you were incorrect if i had such a limited sphere of knowledge regarding language and the global world as you.

  • Anonymous

    What is a ‘Red Sox’, and it’s spelled “geez” (for someone as you whom is so concerned with the orthography of others).

  • E.B. Wolf

    Intergalactic Gangbang? That’s a new one. 

  • laughing stock

    this is called trolling, its supposed to be  meaningless fun getting the other person to get mad over nothing by saying annoying things usually by betting that the OP has some common insecurity about himself that can be exploited, either too sensitive about foul language or making a big fuss about spelling errors or typos or making fun of something an OP is very passionate about. too bad it was on such a tragic article. seems you got trolled in the cross fire. U mad?

  • Triiplex

    He lied to her and told her he was a prosperous business owner in the U.K.  She buys it hook line, and sinker.  He spends a ton of money on her. Most likely she was probably a prostitute in her former country of residence.  He probably married her overseas and had to bribe the local judge to do it.  She was also most likely a control freak who realized that this guy was into his star wars stuff more than he was into her.  She was looking for a way out of her marriage because this guy turned out not to be the Daddy Warbucks she wanted.  She figured he would get pissed and hit her by destroying the one thing he truly likes.  He obviously went further.  Typical Modus Operandi of these foriegn women

    Sad thing is I have seen this before.  A former neighbor of mine had this experience. Now he is apparently stuck with 4 kids, no hobbies, no cool stuff, a fuckload of bills and a pain in the ass wife he wishes he could get rid of. 

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Stop right there…don’t get so cocky. Your nation will have to present its languages case to the Hague when they are tried for gratuitous abuse of the letter ‘U’. :-)

  • NarwhalNecropsy

    And you sound like an idiot.

  • CosmicAmazing

    WTF..      Reading this “conversation” from start to finish you might actually think you clicked on the wrong article.

    If he was trolling, it was successful.    

  • Colorado

    She was Asian, they don’t have souls. Don’t you know anything?

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    Not to mention the premeditated cruelty the Scots have committed against the letter ‘R’. :-P

  • Anonymous

    In Thailand, all they see is a rich foreigner. Looks don’t really matter.

  • CyborgSam

    An attempt at levity perhaps… 
     If he/she was trying to be funny he/she failed. 9/11 truthers (at least the ones I met) are by majority intelligent and informed individuals. Although, like any other stereotype, the media portrays it one way and that must be correct, right? As for Mac users, that’s like saying all people that where Nike shoes are golfers. Again, fail.  

  • Racist

    This is what happens when you move from the kitchen and try to play with a mans toys.

  • Racist

    This is what happens when you move from the kitchen and try to play with a mans toys.

  • Anonymous

    I think that is a matter of opinion, since the initial conversation began in relation to the stories use of the word “row.”

  • Anonymous
  • http://www.gunnook.com Cbirdsell

    sounds like star wars toys was not his only problem

  • Knight

     It’s a leftist thing.

  • Smith Bill

    why people do like this…Pls have passion.

  • Earaches

    Him or her?

  • feint_ruled

     You are most likely correct (though your phrase “these foreign women” jars a bit, mercenary behaviour can be found closer to home too!). The whole Star Wars thing is just the sensationalist angle the tabloids are using to hook in readers.

  • Hadrian999

    the one who had a temper tantrum over toys then ran home to mommy

  • Hadrian999

    the one who had a temper tantrum over toys then ran home to mommy

  • DeepCough

    Geez, what bent this guy’s wookie?

  • Dabob23

    Wow fuck you headline. This guy didn’t kill his wife over the star wars toys that’s bull! It’s a typical murder the woman that is leaving you schtick. Great job at misleading headlines.

  • damg

    haha thats ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR to you big yin!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NB5KLNJJDDPOIBQEIORKGGZ76I Keori

    1. Woman prepares to leave abusive husband.
    2. Abusive husband murders her, claiming he “snapped” after she did something horrible.
    3. Other abusive, misogynist men cheer him on, saying that the bitch had it coming.
    4. ?
    5. PROFIT!

    /lolsob

  • Superbitches

    I agree with feint.  Goldiggers are not just limited to foreign women.  Domestic ones are just as bad.  Hell just check out some of the ones in Texas.  Scammers are in every nation

  • Superbitches

    I agree with feint.  Goldiggers are not just limited to foreign women.  Domestic ones are just as bad.  Hell just check out some of the ones in Texas.  Scammers are in every nation

  • Anonymous

    that’s a pretty broad statement. I have no illusions as to how marriage to farangs functions in thailand, afterall i did live there on and off for 6 years, but i think it’s ridiculous to paint all thai women with that brush. one of the thai princesses is married to an american and lives in CA. I think it is disrespectful to the eurasian kids of inter-asian marriage, as well as somewhat misogynist and mis contextual- particularly because marriage has historically been a financial transaction. not to put words in your mouth, but the sex tourism industry is fueled by western patronage. There is a clear intersection between economics, sexism and abuse.

  • Anonymous

    that’s a pretty broad statement. I have no illusions as to how marriage to farangs functions in thailand, afterall i did live there on and off for 6 years, but i think it’s ridiculous to paint all thai women with that brush. one of the thai princesses is married to an american and lives in CA. I think it is disrespectful to the eurasian kids of inter-asian marriage, as well as somewhat misogynist and mis contextual- particularly because marriage has historically been a financial transaction. not to put words in your mouth, but the sex tourism industry is fueled by western patronage. There is a clear intersection between economics, sexism and abuse.

  • http://twitter.com/jasonpaulhayes jasonpaulhayes

    Luke I am your Father … and I’m in jail now.

  • http://twitter.com/jasonpaulhayes jasonpaulhayes

    Luke I am your Father … and I’m in jail now.

  • PFFT

    Yeah, all these poor western men and their plight, lacking any substance fetching women with cash in poor countries, because that’s all they can get, killing them in return because she didn’t turn out to be slave he taught he had purchased, those cases are dime a dozen.  You exploit others you get yourself exploited, cry me a river.