If you think you're having a bad
day, read these true stories!
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 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.
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 girl friend 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
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 finally, 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.