A little over two months ago, there was the horror of the Sepp Fritzl affair.

In mid-May, it emerged that another Austrian had murdered his wife, kids, parents and fatherin-law with an axe.

Now comes the news that a pensioner in a village near Vienna has blasted to death his brother, his sister and their partners in a row over rent money.

What in the name of god is going on over there? Has the government started pumping phencyclidine into the water supply?

'Blasted'? With, like, dynamite?