[KarlInOhio]

I’d like to kill all the leaders of Europe in 1914.

I tried that with my time machine. I got Archduke Franz Ferdinand and got some Serbian patsy blamed for it. After that it was too much work.

[Verginius Rufus]

Gavrilo Princip killed the Austrian crown prince, but he was not executed because in Austria the death penalty could be applied only to persons who had passed their 20th birthday and he was a month too young at the time of the assassination. Instead they put him in a prison and he died from the poor conditions in the prison.

When Franz Joseph heard about the assassination his first reaction was one of relief--he had been dead-set against Franz Ferdinand's marriage to someone who lacked the proper noble pedigree.

[pdunkin]

Thanks for the laugh.