THE FALL OF THE PEEPING WARDEN

If you think voyeurism can be a matter of life or death, you might want to consider the prison warden at Tapachula, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border - indulging his yen for spying on couples during conjugal visits, he died Tuesday after crashing down next to a Nicaraguan prisoner and his wife making love, Reuters reports.

The peeping warden was Raul Zarate Diaz, who fell 23 feet after he tripped on a skylight looking over the conjugal visiting section of the prison, according to La Cronica newspaper and InfoRed Radio.

Diaz had a porn magazine and binoculars in his possession, local law enforcement told the newspaper, but police refused to provide further details.

Don't think the prisoner whose conjugal tryst was so rudely interrupted took it lying down, either - he tried to start a riot but prison security squelched it before he succeeded, La Cronica says.