Des-potty North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent poop filled balloons into neighbouring South Korea, as we revealed yesterday.
The tyrant’s bizarre toilet tactics came in response to leaflets spread by Southern activists near the border. Kim Jong-un’s sister went on to make a mocking statement suggesting the surreal move is “freedom of expression”
But it’s not the only time that poo has been used offensively.
Turd terror
The ancient Scythians, a nomadic Asian people, used poisonous arrows in battle. The tips were dipped in a mixture of viper venom and human or animal poo. Greek historian Strabo wrote: “Even people who are not wounded by the poison projectiles suffer from their terrible odour.”
Crappy end
English king Edmund Ironside died on 30th November, 1016 when a bold assassin hid in his privy and stabbed him in the anus, as the unfortunate 26-year-old was going for a toilet break. Another ruler, the Duke of Bohemia, was murdered with a spear in the bowels, on the latrine, in 1038.
