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Karaoke Singing Can Get You Killed in the Philippines
By Chad Upton
I’m not a great singer, and I know this. Despite that fact, I’ve done karaoke a couple times on vacation.
In some countries, karaoke is comparable to television singing competitions — part of the entertainment is the fact that some people can’t sing. In other countries, karaoke is dead serious.
In the Philippines, they’re known as “My Way Killings” since there are at least six documented incidents of someone being killed for murdering Frank Sinatra’s version of “My Way”. Those are just the documented ones, there are more that are suspected but unconfirmed. (more…)
Broken Secrets 