IF YOU THINK YOU'RE HAVING A 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, in full view, they were both eaten by a
killer whale.
2. A psychology student in New York with an unusual
idea for a case study decided she would rent out her
spare room to a hired contract carpenter in order to
nag him constantly and study his reactions. After
weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly
with an axe 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 to find that 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. Until that
moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
5. Two animal rights activists were protesting the
cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn,
Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of
them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded,
trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
And finally...
6. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't put
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.