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REVENGE! Thomas Scala, who killed wife Blanche over cable TV, was done in by a cutlet. (
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“The chicken got served.”
The Staten Island creep who killed his wife because she refused to pay for cable TV during his hospital stay dined on a huge helping of cosmic payback when he choked to death on a chicken dinner just days before his wrist-slap sentencing.
“He got what he deserved,” victim Blanche Scala’s sister, Gloria Sellitto, told The Post. “It’s karma. If there is a God, he was punished. He choked on a chicken.
“He’s a chicken. The chicken got served.”
Instant karma struck boob-tube-loving Thomas Scala, 58, on July 12, when the toothless killer gagged while scarfing down a hot chicken cutlet that he failed to cut small enough to gum, his family said.
It took him seven days to die from the loss of oxygen to his brain at Staten Island University Hospital, Prince’s Bay.
Even Scala’s son, Thomas Jr., thinks his dad got what was coming to him — declaring that the deadly cutlet was “from God.”
“What goes around comes around,” he said.
Scala was buried on July 24, the day he was to be sentenced to five-years’ probation for bashing Blanche’s skull with a can of oven cleaner because she wouldn’t pay an extra $5.75 a day for cable TV while he was in the hospital on Thanksgiving 2010.
The blow triggered massive bleeding when a wound from a previous beating opened up inside Blanche’s head. She died the next day.
Scala agreed in April to a sweetheart criminally-negligent-homicide deal that carried no jail time.
During his last meal, Scala wolfed down a piece of boneless chicken too large for him to chew, given his lack of teeth and dentures, said his niece Christina Scala, 18.
Her mom, Mary — the killer’s sister-in-law — tried unsuccessfully to perform the Heimlich maneuver on him.
He lost consciousness, was declared brain dead at the hospital and was taken off life support a few days later.
Scala’s nephew John Scala, 14, said his uncle constantly bit off more than he could chew.
“I kept asking him to use the knife, to cut smaller pieces,” John said. “But he would just chomp huge hunks.”
Additional reporting by Matthew Abrahams