Maybe your life isn't so bad after all...
- 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.
- 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, leaving her mentally
retarded.
- 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.
- 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
skillet. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him
with a handy plank of wood she found by the back door, breaking his arm in two
places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
- 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...(plus a candidate for the 1998 Darwinian Award)
- 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.