Boing Boing, August 6, 2026

All our posts from the past 24 hours

Here are today's Boing Boing stories. Thanks for supporting independent journalism!

When five men tried to murder "Iron Mike" with increasingly poisonous drinks

Ellsworth Toohey / 4:15 am PT Thu Aug 6, 2026

Michael Malloy — NYC Municipal Archives / Public domain (via Wikipedia)

In January 1933, five Bronx acquaintances — the press later called them "the Mur…