A German overweight man was put in prison for five years for killing his wife… by sitting on her during an argument.

That must have hurt a ton. More after the jump.

The man sat on his wife for at least two minutes, which broke her ribs in 18 places. The woman was half her husband’s weight, and died from the injuries in less than a month.

A spokesman for the court stated that “It was quite deliberate,” even though the man tried to claim that he had only “accidentally fallen on his wife” after trying to “drag her into another room.” Forensic evidence proved that this was a lie, and he had deliberately sat on her.

I wonder what exactly the domestic dispute was about, but would bet that it was about either his laziness, weight, or tendency to sit on people in arguments. He deserves the prison time, even if he did not intend to kill his wife. You shouldn’t be able to kill a person and get away with it.

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