borrowed post.
If true
we... as a species are in Deep 'stuff'
When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at its intended victim during a
holdup in Long Beach, California, robber James Elliot did something that can
only inspire wonder: he peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again.
Happily for most concerned, this time it worked.
The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine
and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance
company. The company, suspecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have
a look for himself. He tried the machine out and lost a finger. The chef's
claim was approved.
Mourners at the funeral of Anna Bochinsky in Moinesti, Rumania, were
naturally somewhat taken aback when she abruptly leapt from her coffin as it
was being carried to the grave. Before they could react to this unexpected
outburst, the woman bounded into the nearest road, where she was run over
and killed by a passing car.
A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a
blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the
space. Understandably, he shot her dead.
One of the criteria by which Miss Nude USA was chosen in 1979 was taste in
clothing.
After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found
that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare
to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver
went to a nearby bus-stop and offered everyone in the queue a free ride. He
then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that
the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The
deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.
In Minneapolis, USA, 28 year old Derrick L Richardson has been charged with
third-degree murder of his much loved cousin, Ken E Richardson. According to
local police, Derrick had suggested to Ken that they play a game of Russian
Roulette, but, having no revolver, instead put a semiautomatic pistol to his
cousin's head. Apparently, he did not realize that one bullet always loads
into the firing chamber of a semiautomatic.
An American teenager was in the hospital yesterday recovering from serious
head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked about how he
received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see
how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.
A mother took her daughter to the doctor and asked him to give her an
examination to determine the cause of her daughters swollen abdomen. It only
took the doctor about 2 seconds to say "Gimmee a break lady! Your daughter
is pregnant." The mother turned red with fury and she argued with the doctor
that her daughter was a good girl and would never compromise her reputation
by having sex with a boy. The doctor faced the window and silently watched
the horizon. The mother became enraged and screamed, "Quit looking out the
window! Aren't you paying attention to me?" "Yes, of course I am paying
attention ma'am. It's just that the last time this happened, a star appeared
in the East, and three wise men came. I was hoping they would show up again
and help me figure out who got your daughter pregnant." |
