GREAT BALLS OF FIRE (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/world/main4701529.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_4701529)
Quote(CBS/ AP) An Australian woman accused of setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair has been charged with murder.
Prosecutors said 44-year-old Rajini Narayan confessed to neighbors that she set her husband on fire on Dec. 8, 2008, after she saw him hug another woman.
She was initially charged with endangering life and arson but the charges were upgraded to murder after her 47-year-old husband, Satish Narayan, died from his injuries last week.
Prosecutor Lucy Boord said Narayan told neighbors she was a "jealous wife" but she hadn't meant to kill him when she doused the sleeping man's genitals with an alcohol-based solvent and then set him on fire.
Boord quoted Narayan allegedly saying: "I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else. ... I didn't mean this to happen."
The husband jumped out of bed and knocked over the bottle of alcohol, causing the fire to spread and resulting in 1 million Australian dollars ($711,000) of damage to their town house and an adjacent property, the Adelaide Advertiser reported.
"She poses a substantial risk to others given her flagrant offending," Boord told the newspaper.
Boord quoted Narayan allegedly saying: 'I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else. ... I didn't mean this to happen.'
"Witnesses also heard the accused make references to using a police officer's gun on herself, and references to whether she should be alive at all," she added.
Narayan was remanded in custody for psychological assessment and will reappear in court Friday. She has been charged with murder, arson and three counts of endangering life, as the couple's three children were at home during the incident.
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Jealousy is terrible, isn't it?
How do you find this stuff?
Man, I hope I don't meet a woman who gets that jealous.
Dude... NICE title.
I have to say, this is one of your better puns XD
Thats pretty scary, but not as bad how my friend's friend's mom killed her husband. >.>
brrrrrrrrr
Oh, gosh, that's messed up... >.<
She's obviously not stable...must have been something going on before, for her to be that distrusting. And she didn't want him dead, she felt suicidal afterwards. I wonder what goes on in peoples' heads sometimes.
Man, don't you hate when that happens?
I didn't even notice the title's relation to the article until ZV pointed it out. I then proceeded to crack up, waking my little sister. ;)
Defense Attorney's going to plead insanity...
I'm not going to lie. as soon as I saw the title of this topic I thougt "great balls of fire"
how completely appropriate.
That's an actual song, you know.
Um...ow! Talk about a burning sensation!