Quick, we should ban something, abclocal.go.com will do:

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=bizarre&id=3654715

By making it a crime, that will send a strong message to any youths who want to visit sites like abclocal and bad stuff won't happen again.

Yours faithfully,

Labour MP Martin Salter.

It's obvious really, we should ban video games with freezers in them. I think Half Life 2 had a kitchen scene with a freezer in the corner, let's demand it's banned until that scene is cut.

He was probably driven round the bend by the "ludicrously hyped" iPhone.

A thick file was held showing the man to be incredibly violent.

This begs the question why wasn't he in jail? The police are just as guilty of allowing this poor woman and child to die as the offender. Did they think it would stop? I doubt it. They wait until they are dead.

Shameful.

Surely having a dinner party in the same house as your dead wife and son would be...well...rather...stupid?

I saw someone on that keep a dead body in the freezer... Must be a copycat attack.

Wonder if this guy had also included a UPS for the inevitable power-cut?

Looks like this particular person can thank her lucky stars that she made it outside alive. In any film, upon discovering the bodies, the girl would turn around suddenly and see the guy at the basement door, holding a long knife and a wicked smile (or sad frown).

So life CAN actually be different from a Hollywood film !

I bet he was playing Counter Strike, or some other work of the communist liberal devils that call themselves gamers.

Yep, what else could it be?... [/irony]

But don't most freezers have locks?

The wrong sort of knowledge beamed into your brain is a Liability for Media to Remedy with Revisionary Content?

Sounds like a Desperate Housewives' Winner if you like a Red Light 42 Shine on your Information....... which Technology can now beam to you Personally in ITs Special Operations in XXXXStreaming Exceptional Circumstances.

Shhhh..... don't tell the "security experts" who are securing* our airports - they may just get a clue from somewhere.

* i.e., ensuring that nobody that wants to travel will be able to travel.

Damn, I've just drunk another 105ml of potential liquid explosive. Time to call the ambulance.

He is at the root of all evil these days. Didier was so obviously unhappy at the way things are turning out in Iraq.

Anon: But don't most freezers have locks?

Err.. No!

...or is this story more tragic than funny?

I'm sorry, I should have known better than to read the comments page of this one. My bad.

"But don't most freezers have locks?"

Erm, no!

At least not in Blighty where we can be safely trusted to have unsupervised access to large amounts of frozen food without porking the lot.

"The police are just as guilty of allowing this poor woman and child to die as the offender."

Nonsense. If you take that approach, the victim was as guilty as the murderer, for "allowing" herself to get murdered, and people who get raped are as guilty as rapists for wearing short skirts.

about what I'd just eaten for dinner! Think I'll pass on the sausages ...

@Steve:

> "But don't most freezers have locks?"

>

> Erm, no!

>

> At least not in Blighty where we can be safely trusted to have unsupervised

> access to large amounts of frozen food without porking the lot.

Are you sure about that?

http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1892098,00.html

Can anyone explain why you even think about accepting a dinner invitation from someone you know to be a violent drunk, indeed someone you have personally reported to the police for beating his wife?

So what, to make up for reporting him to the police she does the washing up? Presumably hoping to not only get some free food from a wife-beater, but to avoid a beating herself by cleaning up afterwards..

And after arriving, finding that she was (sort of) alone in the house with this guy, she still stays to have dinner with him? She couldn't think of any excuse for getting the hell out of there as soon as she realised his wife and kid wouldn't be joining them? Yes I know she found out they were dead later, but wouldn't having dinner alone with a psycho be enough of a reason to want to leave?.

The more I think about this, the more I wonder if she had a death wish. I don't even want to think about the possibility she was considering getting romantically involved with a supposed recent divorcee with a track record of violently beating his spouse.

The guy's actions in inviting someone that shopped him to the police are more easily explained. Except that he apparently didn't get time to off her too, as she made her escape after finding next week's dinner party in the freezer.

I hate to say this, but if anyone deserved a good slap round the head for being a muppet, it's someone that stays for a candle lit dinner with a violent psychopath - and then does the washing up afterwards.

The dinner guest was not the same person as the neighbor. If you're going to write a long rant you might check the facts in the story? Or maybe not.

The article said it was a "dinner party", which suggests more than one guest. It may well have been something the wife had arranged shortly before she was killed.

The guest, I suppose, was unaware of the man's marital status. This might have been something more like a date than a party.

I wonder at the man's putting bodies in the freezer, and then inviting company. It's not such a good idea. You never know when a guest is going to have a peek in the freezer, and there are some squeamish sorts who find bodies objectionable. I think perhaps that the man was mentally ill, and that his illness had finally gotten out of bounds, leading him to do these bizarre and self-defeating things.

i've been to some bad dinner parties in my time but this takes the (wife flavoured) biscuit.

she gave him the cold shoulder after that

"His plan to hide the disappearance of his wife and stepson had just fallen apart."

Obviously this was when he found out his invited guest was a vegetarian and couldn't serve the mixed grill(ed wife and child)

I heard he told his visitor he was "having the family for dinner"