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To: Zbyte who wrote (680)5/17/1999 10:14:00 AM
From: Sam LBI nj  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2380
 
Next time you think you're having a bad day recall that----

1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the 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
ax leaving her mentally retarded.

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 the
pigs, all two thousand of them, 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.

Here's hoping your day is better than any of these.
Sam