A wire filler tucked deep inside the A section of the Minneapolis Star would be right at home on Fark:

Newspaper stacks
suffocate man

MALMOE, Sweden (UPI) — The 60-year-old man apparently was an avid newspaper reader. It cost him his life.

Police said they found the man, whose name was not released, dead in bed Thursday, buried under racks of newspapers.

“The papers had been piled next to the bed. They apparently fell over him in his sleep and he suffocated,” a police spokesman said.

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