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.
