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To: WEBNATURAL who wrote (829)	11/25/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: david m. uhler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1568

Having a bad day? It could be worse... > > 1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil > spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most > expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and > applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer > whale. > > 2. A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a > carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After > weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe. > > 3. In 1992, Frank Perkins of Los Angeles made an attempt on the world > flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu he came down eight hours > short of the 400 day record, his sponsor had gone bust, his girlfriend had > left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off. > > 4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking > frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the > electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she > whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm > in two places. Till that moment he had been happily listening to his > Walkman. > > 5. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending > pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly all two thousand pigs escaped > through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters > to death. > > And the capper... > > 6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter > bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was > the bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits. > > Feel better? >>