Wife Tries to Poison Her Husband's Milk and Kills 15 Family Members Instead
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Source – A Pakistani woman has been arrested after a plot to murder her husband with a poisoned glass of milk led to the death of 15 family members.
The woman’s mother-in-law used the tainted milk to make lassi, according to police, after her husband refused the glass. …
Police in Muzaffargarh, a city in south Punjab, say that Asiya concocted the plot to “avenge” being married against her wishes two months ago.
After an earlier attempt to flee to her parent’s home was foiled, she was provided with poison by her alleged lover, said a Muzaffargarh district police officer, Nazim Ali.
But the plot went awry when Amjad, Asiya’s husband, did not drink the glass of milk she handed to him, Mr Ali said. Instead, her mother-in-law poured the poisoned substance into a vat kept by the family, and drew from it the next day to make lassi and butter.
Initially, it was claimed that a lizard had fallen into the milk, poisoning it. But according to police, Asiya confessed her role while in custody.
Although Pakistan recently strengthened laws designed to prevent child marriage and forced conversion, there is little legal remedy for women who reject a partner chosen for them by their family.
There are a couple of lessons we can take away from this story.
First of all, let’s hear it for life in the good ol’ U.S. of A. People, especially your conservatives, love to bemoan the fact that half of all our marriages end in divorce. And believe me, I know how ugly that can be. At my old job with the court system, I spent time working at a Family & Probate Court, and you do not want that. I use to watch couples in such agony I’d call my sainted mom on a daily basis from the courtroom just to say thanks and tell her I love her. And I’d want to be Husband and Father of the Year not because I’m a good guy, but just because divorce is so much work. There’s all this paperwork and thick files of records you’ve got to keep track of. Not to mention the lawyer’s fees. So a hard pass to that. But still, it serves a useful purpose when you see what the alternative is in some other cultures. The stigma of breaking up your family is pretty insignificant when you compare it to wiping them out with poison milk.
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The second takeaway is that if you’re going to try to poison your husband (Legal Note: Barstool Sports recommends you do not try to poison your husband or anyone else), his milk is the last thing you should use. I mean, what is Amjad? A 3-year-old? Does he walk in the door every day from work and ask Asiya for a nice tall glass of moo juice to take the edge off? If the Irish Rose tried to poison me (Author’s Note: The Irish Rose should not try to poison me), by tainting the milk, it would probably expire in the fridge. Yes, I’m a mammal. But I’m a fully grown mammal. When was the last time you drove by a dairy farm and saw a full-grown steer nursing at his mom’s udder? I don’t drink milk not because I’m worried about dying from poison, I’m worried about dying from kidney stones. But put something in my beer or Bota Box dinner wine and I won’t last til morning. And the kids will be safe.
So the bottom line here is, don’t put someone in a position where they’re only choice is between an unwanted marriage or murder. And if you’re the one doing the murdering, have a plan in place for if things go sideways that’s better than saying a lizard feel into the milk supply. Pro tip.