Headline of the day: Man killed by atomic wedgie

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In case you’ve lived a sheltered life, giving somebody a wedgie is the act of yanking up someone’s underwear by the waistband so that it gets wedged up in the victim’s butt-crack, as depicted below:

An atomic wedgie is a wedgie executed with enough upward force to pull the waistband over the victim’s head. The photo below presents a textbook atomic wedgie:

Atomic wedgies are hard to pull off (or is the proper term “pull up”?). Most of the time, the underwear rips before you can lift it high enough to get it over the victim’s head. Or so I’ve heard.

Brad Davis, the man pictured at the top of this article, is accused of killing his stepfather, Denver Lee St. Clair. St. Clair’s cause of death was determined to be from blunt force trauma to the head and asphyxiation, and Davis is said to have told investigators that he gave his stepdad an atomic wedgie. The local sheriff, Mike Booth, says that he’d never heard of an atomic wedgie before.

Who’d ever think that atomic wedgies could be lethal? Be sure to read the full account of the case, as it’s full of the sort of funny-in-a-horrifying-way details that only a small town in a state whose name ends with “a” can produce.

Thanks to Justin Kozuch for the find!