As we gather together with family for the annual Thanksgiving feast, some of us are filled with trepidation over tensions between family members and the possibility of spoiling the occasion. After all, there are reasons we live so far away from each other and don't get together more often. Some families took that tension to extreme.
For example, a man named Dipendra went to a family party and killed his mother, father, brother, sister, plus his uncles and aunts and a cousin. He killed nine people that evening, and therefore became the king of Nepal because his was the royal family. However, Dipendra spent his entire reign in a coma because he also tried to kill himself. His surviving uncle then became the last king of Nepal because having a monarchy wasn't going so well.
Cracked tells us of five incidents when a family feast was the setting for murder. Three were mass killings, and the other two were single murders committed men who had caused plenty of other deaths. We hope your Thanksgiving with the family will be much more peaceful.
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