Life imitates cults

While trying to kill a snake a man kills his wife by shooting her in the back instead.



http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mum-shot-dead-in-snake-incident/2008/04/27/1208743316250.html

A mother of four was shot dead by her husband as they tried to flush a snake out of a shed at their home insouth-east Queensland, police said yesterday.

Paramedics pronounced the woman, 33, dead on arrival at the property at Kingsthorpe.

Police believe a man, 37, accidentally fired his weapon when the snake slid over his feet about 10pm on Friday. His wife was shot in the back.