Bad Day?

[Jemisa]

Think you have a bad day? Look at these (almost) true stories...

And think again: Maybe things aren't so bad:

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 tree hugging 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 girlfriend 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 the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

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.

There now! Your day's not so bad, is it?

[VHG]

These are all fake, as a quick search on the internet would show.

And they have been going round since 1998

See here

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

[Jemisa]

It doesn't say they are true VHG, in fact if you look at the start it says (almost true) and considering we're in the 'Joke' section common sense would normally tell you they are not. I am not trying to pull the wool over anyones eyes here. I know ABers are not that gullable.

I don't need to look at your link. Take the joke as its meant VHG :o)

jem

[maggiebee]

Well said Jem, have read them before at some time but they still make me chuckle as most posts under "jokes" do.

[starone]

As I have said before, a joke is a joke for heaven's sake. Made me laugh jem.

[Marijn]

It's a relief that they're not true

[tenrec]

Lovely!

[fourteen85]

I would love No.6 to be true though