So, you thought you were having a bad day
by Alan D. Winter, 1 August 2004
Have you ever had a bad day? You know, you wake up with a hangover. The all night disco next to your apartment turns out to be all day and night disco. You want your breakfast cereals and the milk is sour. You're ironing your shirt and someone rings the doorbell but you forget to remove the iron from the shirt so that when you return your shirt is burnt. You leave the apartment shutting the door firmly behind you only to realise that your keys are still on the hook indoors. You wait 2 hours for a locksmith to arrive, and boy, do those guys know how to charge for a 30 second job! Finally, the car won't start because you forgot to put petrol in it the day before. And all this before you get to your first prospect of the day. With a run like this, could you really face a prospect?Probably not. So, console yourself with the following mishaps.
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 facemask.
A post-mortem 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 clad 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.
Actually, this story is not true.... the holes in the collecting buckets are too small to allow a diver to get in, so don't go believing it.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 ever 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.
More? Okay, check this one out.
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.
And even more...
Two animal rights protesters were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke loose and escaped through a downed fence, stampeding madly. The twohopeless protesters were trampled to death.
Finally...
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 his bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
Whatever kind of day you have, have a good one. And if you want to share your anecdote, why not mail it in via the contact form?