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Sunny
08-31-2004, 10:57 AM
A forward. :lol: just for laughs..

THINK YOU'RE HAVING A BAD DAY.... check it out these actual cases.

Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out
section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The
deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on
his back, flippers, and face mask.
A postmortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but
from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive
identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully
clothed diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that
on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the coast, some 20 miles
from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly
as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip
buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the site of the
forest fire. You guessed it One minute our diver was making like Flipper in
the Pacific, the next, he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket
300 feet in the air. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
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Still think you're having a bad day?

A man was working on his motorcycle on the patio, his wife nearby in the
kitchen. While racing the engine, the motorcycle accidentally slipped into
gear. The man, still holding onto the handlebars, was dragged along as it
burst through the glass patio doors. His wife, hearing the crash, ran in
the room to find her husband cut and bleeding, the motorcycle, and the
shattered patio door. She called for an ambulance and, because the house sat
on a fairly large hill, went down the several flights of stairs to meet the
paramedics and escort them to her husband.
While the attendants were loading her husband, the wife managed to right
the motorcycle and push it outside. She also quickly blotted up the spilled
gasoline with some paper towels and tossed them into the toilet.
After being treated and released, the man returned home, looked at the
shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He went into the
bathroom and consoled himself with a cigarette while attending to his
business. About to stand, he flipped the butt between his legs.
The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband
screaming. Finding him lying on the bathroom floor with his trousers blown
away and burns on his buttocks, legs and groin, she once again phoned for an
ambulance. The same paramedic crew was dispatched.
As the paramedics carried the man down the stairs to the ambulance they
asked the wife how he had come to burn himself. She told them. They started
laughing so hard, one slipped, the stretcher and dumping the husband out. He
fell down the remaining stairs, breaking his arm.
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Still having a bad day? Just remember, it could be worse...

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 being released back into the wild amid cheers
and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale
ate them both.
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Still think you are having a bad day?

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking
frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of 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, breaking his arm
in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his
Walkman.
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STILL think you're having a bad day?
Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending
pigs to a slaughter house in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs
broke loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly. The two
hopeless protesters were trampled to death.
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What?! STILL having a bad day??

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. There now, feeling better.

1695814
08-31-2004, 11:10 AM
The first one's false: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.htm

Frenchie
08-31-2004, 11:11 AM
The first one's false: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.htm

I was 'bout to do that too....too slow I guess ;)

Sunny
08-31-2004, 11:11 AM
That was the one I debated in the office about its validity. Thanks for verifying my susipicion. :)

Frenchie
08-31-2004, 11:12 AM
That was the one I debated in the office about its validity. Thanks for verifying my susipicion. :)

Either way, as I said to my friends who I sent a copy, they still make you laugh...

urysohn
08-31-2004, 11:12 AM
That was the one I debated in the office about its validity. Thanks for verifying my susipicion. :)
That was the one? I'm pretty most people don't put return addresses on packages when they mail out letter bombs. But I'm no expert ;)

True or not, they're good for a chuckle.

Sunny
08-31-2004, 11:15 AM
yeah, I was still laughing today when I re-read it.. :rofl:

The one with the guy dancing to his walkman music was hilarious.

Linus
08-31-2004, 11:17 AM
They're all fake.

http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.htm

But that doesn't mean they aren't funny.

As far as the last one:

The self-bombing Iraqi tale was reported as a news item in the 27 November 1994 issue of The People. Two things to be kept in mind when considering the validity of that cite: The People is notorious for printing tall tales, and no other news agency carried this story.

Interestingly, a 1966 Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon titled "Sugar and Spies" contains a segment where the coyote attempts to mail a letter bomb to his nemesis. The rigged package marked "postage due" is returned by the road runner disguised as a postman. But of course the coyote opens it, blowing himself up.

1695814
08-31-2004, 11:17 AM
2nd one: http://www.snopes.com/spoons/legends/toilet.htm

Sunny
08-31-2004, 11:18 AM
hm, the person who sent it to me said she has friends who work for Reuters and so they constantly forward her funny stories like these...

1695814
08-31-2004, 11:18 AM
Here are the rest: http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.htm

1695814
08-31-2004, 11:19 AM
I don't mean to poop on your party...they are funny...just not true.

Frenchie
08-31-2004, 11:19 AM
Here are the rest: http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.htm

Dangit! Foiled again! I had that one, but I was busy reading all the other "news" on there too....guess I need to take up speed reading

L. Mo
08-31-2004, 11:26 AM
personally, I'm fond of the news stories about how, on a slow day, someone picks something off the internet and runs with it...like that german couple who didn't know how babies are made, or when a Chinese paper picked up a story from The Onion as true. Those make me :lol:

Uncle Billy
08-31-2004, 12:32 PM
Funniest email I ever got went something like this....

So You're Having Bad Day?

Well then just imagine this..

You are a siamese twin.
Your brother has a date tonight.
He's gay, you're not.
You share an ass.

I haven't complained about anything in 5 months.