Competing Headlines of the Day: You Decide

We have a pressing question for you Seattlest readers: Which headline from today's local news is more awful? We simply can't decide on our own.

When we read this one this morning, we thought surely no other headline could even come close: "Renton woman attacks neighbors with machete, burns to death."

But then, while perusing KING 5, we came across this truly mind-bendingly awful headline: "Puppies maul abandoned cancer patient."

The latter story featured the following quote which, hands-down with absolutely no competition, is the most disturbing quote of the day:

"We don't believe the puppies attacked him but the puppies were using him as a food source due to the fact that they just didn't know any better and he was on the ground incapacitated for a couple of days," said Detective Ed Troyer, Pierce Co. Sheriff's Office.

So, which is it, Seattle: puppies eating terminally ill cancer patients or machete-wielding neighbors who faced instant karma? Which headline should be crowned the supreme winner of awful news?

"New U.S. Anti-Terror Initiative," courtesy of Seattlest Flickr user Trevor Hain