On one BAD day, > =--= > 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 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 helpless protesters to death. > > 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. -- Indi Soemardjan Be my guest: http://pagina.de/indradi
